{"id":11204,"date":"2025-07-15T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11204\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:36:04","slug":"snapshots-hartley-penguins-desnoyers-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11204\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Hartley, Penguins, Desnoyers, Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time NHL head coach Bob Hartley has decided to return to coaching.\u00a0 The KHL announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/khl_eng\/status\/1944747613212885132\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that Hartley has been hired by Lokomotiv Yaroslavl as their new bench boss.\u00a0 The 64-year-old will be making his second foray into coaching in Russia having spent four seasons coaching Avangard Omsk before leaving them in 2022; he hadn\u2019t coached anywhere since then.\u00a0 Hartley is also a veteran of 944 NHL games between Colorado, Atlanta, and Calgary with his teams playing to a .556 points percentage.\u00a0 He won the Stanley Cup back in 2001 but only made the playoffs in three of ten seasons after that.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<p>While Fenway Sports Group has said that they\u2019re only interested in selling a small portion of the Penguins, their old ownership group continues to look into the possibility of one day buying a controlling stake, reports Josh Yohe of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6494081\/2025\/07\/14\/penguins-mario-lemieux-ownership-ron-burkle-david-morehouse\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription link<\/a>). The group, led by long-time Penguin legend Mario Lemieux, sold the team back in 2021 with a franchise valuation of $900MM.\u00a0 Since then, franchise values have gone up with Forbes recently pegging the team\u2019s value at nearly double that amount so re-acquiring even a controlling interest in the team might be costlier than what they received for it not quite four years ago.<br \/>\nThe Wild\u2019s AHL team in Iowa <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/news\/detail\/iowa-wild-signs-forwards-elliot-desnoyers-and-matthew-sop-to-ahl-contracts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/desnoel02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elliot Desnoyers<\/a> to a one-year, one-way contract. The 23-year-old has four career NHL games under his belt, coming with Philadelphia back in 2022-23.\u00a0 Since then, Desnoyers has played exclusively in the AHL and had 19 points in 59 games which wasn\u2019t enough to earn a qualifying offer last month.<br \/>\nThe Avalanche\u2019s AHL affiliate <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradoeagles.com\/news\/detail\/derek-army-named-eagles-assistant-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> the hiring of Derek Army as an assistant coach. The 34-year-old spent parts of the last five seasons as head coach of ECHL Wheeling, becoming the winningest coach in franchise history with a 153-137-19 record over that stretch.\u00a0 Army also spent the past four seasons as their Director of Hockey Operations but will now focus exclusively on coaching with the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-time NHL head coach Bob Hartley has decided to return to coaching.\u00a0 The KHL announced (Twitter link) that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[391,11175,1223,11176,5564,4828,385,1790,395,99],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-bob-hartley","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-elliot-desnoyers","tag-khl","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-snapshots","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}