{"id":800146,"date":"2026-07-13T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800146\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:52:11","slug":"canadiens-hire-daniel-jacob-as-head-coach-of-ahl-laval-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800146\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens hire Daniel Jacob as head coach of AHL Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new person in charge of the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Jacob has been promoted from assistant to head coach, the\u00a0Montreal Canadiens\u00a0\u2014 the Rocket\u2019s NHL affiliate \u2014\u00a0announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob spent the past two seasons with the club, previously serving under head coach Pascal Vincent, who left to become an assistant with the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his time with the Laval Rocket, Daniel has earned the respect of all his colleagues and players with his relentless enthusiasm, work ethic and undeniable passion for the game of hockey and for improving hockey players. He is an excellent communicator with a proven track record of player development,\u201d Rocket general manager John Sedgwick said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob, 45, was in charge of defencemen and the penalty kill as an assistant. He has also spent one season each with the AHL\u2019s San Diego Gulls and Syracuse Crunch\u00a0as well as four seasons each with the QMJHL\u2019s Blainville-Boisbriand Armada and McGill University.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocket job marks the first as head coach for the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., native, who also played in Canadian university, the QMJHL, AHL and professionally in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a new person in charge of the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket. Daniel Jacob has been promoted from assistant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-800146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}