{"id":957096,"date":"2026-11-03T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957096\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:06:10","slug":"which-nhl-coaches-are-on-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957096\/","title":{"rendered":"Which NHL coaches are on the hot seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halloween may be behind us, but for coaches of struggling NHL teams, spooky season is impending. It took until January for the first coach to be fired last season (Dean Evason by the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>), but the Boston Bruins<\/a> fired Jim Montgomery on November 19 the season prior. As we creep deeper into November, certain disappointing teams could decide a new bench boss is needed to turn their season around.<\/p>\n

There is no shortage of disappointing teams this season, either. It\u2019s still early, but of last season\u2019s 16 postseason teams, five currently find themselves outside of the playoff picture. Then, there are the teams that were counting on making a jump but haven\u2019t, and could be running out of patience.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton discussed which current NHL coaches could find themselves out of a job sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0I\u2019m going to give you a couple of coaches, and you\u2019re going to tell me how hot their seat is on a scale of one to 10. One is not hot at all, 10 is piping hot and they might be fired. The first one I\u2019ve got is for you is another rebuilding team, and it\u2019s Jeff Blashill in Chicago, as the Blackhawks<\/a> lose again and they\u2019re 4-10-1 to begin their season. They seem to be stuck in the mud. One through 10, how hot do you think Jeff Blashill\u2019s seat is?<\/p>\n

Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0I\u2019m going to say seven. I just think looking at player development as much as the standings there, I just think he\u2019s got to keep evidence of these guys getting better from a player standpoint. As long as we can see some growth from (Connor) Bedard and (Anton) Frondell and some of those players, I think he survives, but it\u2019s starting to get hot because it\u2019s a market that has expectations. They\u2019re not far away from being the Stanley Cup champions. This team needs to start climbing up the standings or he\u2019s in the mix here.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0I\u2019m going to go a little bit lower. You bring up a good point about the expectations and the market. The last time they made the Stanley Cup playoffs in a full, normal NHL season was 10 years ago, 2016-17. That market is clamoring for the \u2018Hawks to take a step forward which is why I\u2019m going to go not quite down at the very bottom of this list, but I\u2019ll say it\u2019s 4.75. I\u2019m not going to go to five, but four seems to low. I\u2019m going to go 4.75 for Jeff Blashill. It\u2019s only his second year, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to make the playoffs this season, so I could see a scenario where they give him the whole year and then at the end of year two he\u2019s ousted. But a year and a half behind the bench feels like it would be a little bit premature.<\/p>\n

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Next name I\u2019ve got for you, Rick Bowness in Columbus. They are sitting dead at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, although if you sort by points percentage they are ahead of the Flyers. There was some noise around Bones earlier in the season, that maybe seems to have quieted off a little bit, but one through 10, how hot do you think Rick Bowness\u2019 seat is?<\/p>\n

Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0I\u2019m going to put him a little bit lower than I would put Blashill. I\u2019m going to say four. It\u2019s warm, but it\u2019s just kind of medium. It\u2019s kind of like when you\u2019re cooking an egg. Nothing too crazy, you don\u2019t want to rush it, you kind of just have to let it simmer a bit. Because I look at this lineup and I just don\u2019t know if a coaching change really solves the situation of the way the team is structured and where they\u2019re at. That\u2019s my take with Rick Bowness. I think he drew a lot more eyes when he was coming out to the media and talking about the team and everything. I think that public accountability has put him more in the spotlight, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s at a risk because of the situation he\u2019s in. And his age, I just don\u2019t think there\u2019s a worry if it\u2019s more grooming the assistant to come in and take over in Don Granato.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0I\u2019ll go low, too. I\u2019ll say 3.5 out of 10 for Bowness, just because, for some of these teams, like if Dallas were to sputter, and there\u2019s someone who I kind of threw out there at the beginning of the year, that\u2019s a spot that is ripe for John Tortorella to slide in. You could look at some other contenders and go like \u201cAlright, if they start to slip ans sputter, who is that big-name coach who could come in and give them a kick in the ass for the rest of the season. In Columbus, they\u2019re obviously not going to do the Torts thing, but they\u2019re not going to bring in that guy. It\u2019s probably going to be a more forward thinking coach who they think can grow with them and be there for the next three to five seasons. For that reason, I would bet that Bones finds a way to survive the year.<\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Tuesday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween may be behind us, but for coaches of struggling NHL teams, spooky season is impending. It took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-957096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957096","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=957096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}