{"id":263106,"date":"2025-11-05T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263106\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:20:08","slug":"which-coaches-are-on-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263106\/","title":{"rendered":"Which coaches are on the hot seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the NHL, it\u2019s only a matter of time before heads begin to roll, figuratively speaking of course. Even though we\u2019re less than a month into the NHL season, we\u2019re quickly approaching the time when general managers and owners begin to side-eye their team\u2019s head coaches, wondering if a change behind the bench can alter their team\u2019s fortunes.<\/p>\n

Last year, a whopping eight NHL head coaches were fired mid-season. That\u2019s a quarter of the league in case you were asking. The first coach to be shown the door last year was Jim Montgomery of the Boston Bruins<\/a> on November 19th, meaning we\u2019re just a couple weeks away from bench-boss hunting season beginning in earnest. Which coaches are at risk of losing their jobs this year? Well, a look at the teams populating the bottom of the standings will give you a hint, but the NHL always finds a way to surprise us, too.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s episode of\u00a0Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton were joined by The Sheet\u2018s Jeff Marek to discuss which coaches could be on the hot seat as the season enters its second month.<\/p>\n

Carter Hutton: As I look across the NHL, Jeff, what coaches outside of Andrew Brunette are on the hot seat? You\u2019ve got to think about (John) Hynes in Minnesota. In Buffalo, Lindy Ruff. What\u2019s your take on who else could be another coach on the move?<\/p>\n

Jeff Marek: You know, I could see both of those. I mean, any team that\u2019s sort of fallen out of it early here. It\u2019s funny, too, there were some people that I talked to that were actually wondering, which may sound weird and now they\u2019ve circled back out of this swerve, but there were conversations that I had with people that were wondering if this is the year that\u2019s it\u2019s finally over for Jon Cooper in Tampa when they had their early struggles. He\u2019s been a head coach longer than anybody else in the league. Coaches have shelf lives. But right now in the Eastern Conference everybody is essentially the same team, so it\u2019s difficult to figure out who\u2019s actually good and who\u2019s actually bad. <\/p>\n

I think that Buffalo is always in a state of questioning. Listen, even today, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen coming off a great performance on Saturday, Buffalo is going back to Alex Lyon again today. So, is that a message being sent? It looks like it, but I don\u2019t know. To your point about Lindy Ruff, he\u2019s on the expiring contract. You do wonder about him there. But target number one, if we\u2019re going to put targets on people, has gotta be Nashville. That\u2019s the one team that now in a second go-for-it year in a row is really underperforming. <\/p>\n

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