It’s not a major revelation to say that awards can often be a bit silly. Trying to judge anything against it’s peers, whether it is a movie, music, video game or even a coach, is an incredibly difficult task, as there will always be personal biases and differences in taste that influence the winner.
Cooper needed just 659 games to reach 400, eclipsing the record previously held by Bruce Boudreau.
Through Coop’s Catch for Kids, the $50,000 grant will be donated to pediatric cancer research and patient services
The conference room at the Newport Sports Management office, just outside Toronto, had pretty much emptied on this July afternoon in 2010, but then-Lightning assistant GM Julien BriseBois and GM Steve Yzerman stuck around.
Having both piloted the same junior franchise to a championship, Sabres coach Don Granato and Jon Cooper, his counterpart with the Tampa Bay Lightning, are part of a small fraternity.
The extension keeps Cooper behind the bench through the 2024-25 season
Jon Cooper named head coach, will work alongside Cassidy, DeBoer and Trotz
Cooper previously took home a silver medal while coaching Canada’s team at the 2017 IIHF World Championship
Tampa Bay Lightning players talk about how important head coach Jon Cooper is to the success of the team
The Lightning coach is second on the all-time NHL coaching list for winning percentage and is a win away from a second Stanley Cup.
The stadium at Hofstra University on Long Island, N.Y., is only a short walk from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
When Barry Trotz’s Washington Capitals knocked out Jon Cooper’s Tampa Bay Lightning on the way to the Stanley Cup in 2018, the two coaches talked that summer about how it all went down.
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