At the 4 Nations Face-Off, the role of a coach is to have a ‘feel’ for his team and make adjustments. Cooper did a masterful job of that against Finland, says Ken Campbell.
Game against U.S. will be another experience on both sides of hockey rivalry.
Lightning coach also discusses impact of expectations on national stage, childhood hockey memories.
The Bolts’ bench boss has the second-most victories of any NHL coach in their first 900 games.
Bruce Cassidy, Peter DeBoer, Rick Tocchet, Misha Donskov named assistant coaches.
Every year in the salary cap era, we see an example of a team aging out, a former contender that simply can’t contend anymore because of the financial realities of trying to keep a winning group together while also keeping it young enough to compete.
Jon Cooper is rarely at a loss for words.
The four longest-tenured coaches in the NHL are Jon Cooper (hired in 2013), Mike Sullivan (2015), Jared Bednar (2016), and Rod Brind’Amour (2018).
The toughest speech Jon Cooper has ever given his Lightning team was the first one.
In 2010, Jon Cooper was in the mix for an American Hockey League job with the Peoria Rivermen.
Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper has a habit of asking himself questions during interviews and then answering those questions.
The first match-up between former Calder Cup-winning head coaches in a Stanley Cup Final since 1975.
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