Dan Bylsma has had plenty of success in his career. He is a Stanley Cup winner, has won over 320 games in the NHL and was the recipient of the 2011 Jack Adams Award.
The Hershey Bears will face the Coachella Valley Firebirds in the 2023 Calder Cup Finals. The Firebirds punched their ticket to the finals Monday night with a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Admirals, taking their best-of-seven Western Conference Finals series, four games to two.
A former Stanley Cup winning coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins is back behind the bench with a brand new team. Dan Byslma won the Cup with the Penguins in 2009 and has recently been hired as the first ever head coach of the Coachella Valley Firebirds.
Eyebrows were raised around the hockey world when the Seattle Kraken announced in Aug., 2021, that Dan Bylsma was joining the organization and would serve as assistant coach for the Charlotte Checkers.
The 2009 Cup-winning coach has been behind the bench for 565 NHL games, posting an outstanding 320-190-55 record
The Detroit Red Wings special teams have endured yet another difficult season. Last year, many fans believed that the futility of the power play and penalty killing units could be blamed on assistant coach Dan Bylsma. As a result of poor performances, the Red Wings and Bylsma parted ways last summer.
Dan Bylsma laughed and processed the question a little longer. He started to answer it but stopped again to collect his thoughts. After three lean years as an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, did the ex-Buffalo Sabres head coach need a new adventure?
After retooling their defence with Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Tucker Poolman and adding Conor Garland and Jason Dickinson to their offence, the Vancouver Canucks were supposed to be an improved team this season.
Last night’s win over the Blackhawks gave Sullivan his 253rd win as coach. When the Penguins closed out last night’s game against the Blackhawks with a victory, it meant a 2-0-1 start for the team, but for head coach Mike Sullivan, it meant more.
In this edition of Kraken News & Rumors, I’ll discuss two new coaching hires by the Seattle Kraken, as well as an update on the team’s leadership group and potential captaincy candidates.
Ex-Buffalo Sabres head coach Dan Bylsma on Tuesday landed a new job as an assistant coach with the Charlotte Checkers, the AHL affiliate the expansion Seattle Kraken will temporarily share with the Florida Panthers.
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