{"id":441737,"date":"2024-05-27T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=441737"},"modified":"2024-05-27T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T23:40:06","slug":"report-former-nhl-coach-hired-to-lead-seattle-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/05\/27\/report-former-nhl-coach-hired-to-lead-seattle-kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former NHL Coach Hired to Lead Seattle Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/05\/26\/nhl-rumours-former-nhl-coach-a-candidate-for-seattle-kraken-job\/\" target=\"_self\"> Seattle Kraken<\/a> have made a coaching decision. It&#8217;s been reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bylsmda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Bylsma<\/a> has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/kraken-to-hire-dan-bylsma-as-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> hired as the second head coach<\/a> in the team&#8217;s history. News of the report came on late Monday afternoon. Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman was one of the first to breaks news of the hiring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jets introduced Scott Arniel today\u2026another coaching vacancy soon to be filled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hearing Dan Bylsma is the choice in Seattle<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1795207167114408139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dan Bylsma Hired by Kraken<\/h2>\n<p>Bylsma is former NHL head coach with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/05\/15\/pittsburgh-penguins-defenceman-kris-letang-is-having-offseason-surgery\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/05\/19\/nhl-rumours-dallas-stars-and-buffalo-sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres.<\/a> The Grand Haven, Mich. native won a Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 2008-09. However, his tenure with the Sabres didn&#8217;t end so well. His combined NHL coaching record is 320-190-55 over parts of eight seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old has made the post-season in six seasons, but hasn&#8217;t been an NHL bench boss since the 2016-17 campaign. However, he&#8217;s been doing pretty well at the AHL level.<\/p>\n<p>Bylsma has been the head coach of the AHL Coachella Valley Firebirds. He led the team to the Calder Cup Final in 2022-23, but the Firebirds fell to the Hershey Bears in seven games. Coachella Valley is back in the Western Conference Final and will face the Milwaukee Admirals.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>Seattle and general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/francro01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ron Francis<\/a> fired Dave Hakstol after Seattle missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Hakstol had missed the post-season in two of his three seasons in charge.<\/p>\n<p>There had been a longshot that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brindro01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rod Brind&#8217;Amour<\/a> would reunite with Francis. However, the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/05\/24\/major-carolina-hurricanes-news-as-off-ice-changes-made\/\" target=\"_self\"> Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> locked their bench boss up to a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Bylsma does have familiarity with some of the younger players and might be able to tap into that potential. The Firebirds have been a power in their two AHL seasons and are on the edge of reaching the Calder Cup final once again.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle is hoping to find an identity and Bylsma is hoping to translate that success to the NHL level. Players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighsh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shane Wright<\/a> and other youngsters may get a chance to shine with the new regime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Andy Abeyta\/The Desert Sun \/ USA TODAY NETWOR<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Kraken have made a coaching decision. It&#8217;s been reported that Dan Bylsma has been hired as the second head coach in the team&#8217;s history. News of the report came on late Monday afternoon. Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman was one of the first to breaks news of the hiring. Jets introduced Scott Arniel today\u2026another coaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":441738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[5369,4547,34,4548],"tags":[697,7923,6894],"class_list":["post-441737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seattle-kraken","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-dan-bylsma","tag-ron-fran","tag-seattle-kraken-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441737","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}