{"id":44409,"date":"2019-04-02T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=44409"},"modified":"2022-10-23T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T11:26:51","slug":"detroit-red-wings-extend-coach-jeff-blashill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/02\/detroit-red-wings-extend-coach-jeff-blashill\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Extend Coach Jeff Blashill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have announced that they have signed head coach <strong>Jeff Blashill<\/strong> to a two-year contract extension. This new deal will run him until the end of the 2020-2021 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Looks like the Red Wings are announcing a two-year contract extension for Jeff Blashill this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gG7EBMCD63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/gG7EBMCD63<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Galli (@BradGalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradGalli\/status\/1112039693435240448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Detroit Red Wings Extend Jeff Blashill<\/h2>\n<p>Blashill currently has a 134-143-47 record in four seasons with Detroit. He only made the playoffs in his first season 2015-16 after he took over for Mike Babcock. The 45-year-old won the Calder Cup in 2012-13 with the Grand Rapids Griffins and the Clark Cup with the Indianapolis Ice of the USHL.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit native has experience in taking young teams and developing players. He won at least one playoff series in every year with the Griffins. The Red Wings are a young team and the organization has a great youth system in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n<h2>What it Means For the Future<\/h2>\n<p>There is a segment of the fan base that is not happy with this move. They feel general manager<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollake01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Holland<\/a><\/strong> needs to evaluate the head coach position. Holland has one more year left on his current deal and some think he may be winding down his long reign in Hockeytown.<\/p>\n<p>A name like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/y\/yzermst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Yzerman<\/a><\/strong> is out there and he has success in building a powerhouse like the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>. Yzerman will have no shortage of suitors, but the lure of coming home may let him wait out the rest of Holland\u2019s deal.<\/p>\n<p>This uncertainty could also doom Blashill because Yzerman may want to bring in his own coach. Blashill knows that he will have to start making a move up the standings if there will be a change behind the bench.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/12\/Jeff-Blashill.jpg\" alt=\"\">DETROIT, MI &#8211; NOVEMBER 30: Detroit Red Wings head coach Jeff Blashill complains about a penalty with the referee during the Detroit Red Wings game versus the Montreal Canadiens on November 30, 2017, at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kingst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven King<\/a>\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings have announced that they have signed head coach Jeff Blashill to a two-year contract extension. This new deal will run him until the end of the 2020-2021 season. Looks like the Red Wings are announcing a two-year contract extension for Jeff Blashill this week. https:\/\/t.co\/gG7EBMCD63 \u2014 Brad Galli (@BradGalli) March 30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":19990,"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":[4,34],"tags":[95,100,5738,343,571,2569,955,399],"class_list":["post-44409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-news","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-grand-rapids-griffins","tag-hockey-news","tag-jeff-blashill","tag-ken-holland","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-steve-yzerman"],"modified_by":"Matt Jarvis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44409","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=44409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}