{"id":112018,"date":"2021-06-14T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=112018"},"modified":"2021-06-14T19:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T23:05:31","slug":"report-new-york-rangers-hire-gerard-gallant-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/06\/14\/report-new-york-rangers-hire-gerard-gallant-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: New York Rangers Hire Gerard Gallant As Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported by Larry Brooks that the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/06\/09\/nhl-announces-norris-finalists\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> have hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gallage01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerard Gallant<\/a> as their new head coach. Pierre LeBrun provided further intel, stating that it is a four-year deal but there&#8217;s no further information on the contract. The hiring comes a month after the Rangers received permission from the Golden Knights to interview Gallant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Believe it\u2019s a four-year deal for Gallant and Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W55qqurVF5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/W55qqurVF5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1404548396094984193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Gerard Gallant Hired As New York Rangers Coach<\/h2>\n<p>After the Rangers dismissed David Quinn, there was a list of possible coaches &#8211; even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brindro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rod Brind&#8217;Amour<\/a> was in the conversation. However, the Gallant rumour has been around for a while now. And after a very successful run in the IIHF World Championship, that led to the gold medal, all heads turned to him.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant has been great with every single team he has led. He was the first head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> and led them to the Stanley Cup finals in their first season. That sort of success doesn&#8217;t come around often and yet he still managed it. Speaking of surprises, this year&#8217;s Team Canada was definitely not their best team and he still led them to the gold medal. The man has the Midas touch.<\/p>\n<p>During his 9-year NHL career as a head coach, he has a record of 270-216-4-51 in 541 career games. The 57-year-old has been behind the benches of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> and Golden Knights. He had a 24-19-6 record in the 2019-20 season before he was dismissed by Vegas. During his time there, Gallant won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/adamsja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Adams<\/a> Award, an accolade given to the league&#8217;s top coach, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s gold medal is his second leading the Canadians in the World Championship, having won gold in 2007 and silver in 2017.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Rangers need someone like Gallant behind their bench. With one of the youngest teams in the league, they need a coach who can work with them without scaring them away; Gallant is the perfect coach for that. With his experience and personality, he&#8217;s a coach that can manage a young team the right way. Having all the right pieces such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lafreal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexis Lafreniere<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shestig01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Igor Shesterkin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/foxad01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Fox<\/a>, Gallant is a big candidate to take this team back to its former glory.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"BNdUxW5RRrJZHvDkkAP2pw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1092551804\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'BNdUxW5RRrJZHvDkkAP2pw',sig:'b_RV7Pdr0dR8nc3NoXA6AL-L8VoCbOB4PI02erf741E=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1092551804',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported by Larry Brooks that the New York Rangers have hired Gerard Gallant as their new head coach. Pierre LeBrun provided further intel, stating that it is a four-year deal but there&#8217;s no further information on the contract. The hiring comes a month after the Rangers received permission from the Golden Knights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3683,"featured_media":112026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,14,34,4548],"tags":[939],"class_list":["post-112018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-gerard-gallant"],"modified_by":"Luke Flannigan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}