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
Halpern worked with the Lightning’s Community Hockey department to host a ball hockey tournament outside his home in Tampa
The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup for the second straight season with a 1-0 victory against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 5 of the Final at Amalie Arena on Wednesday.
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.
Only seven other coaches have reached the milestone within their first nine seasons.
With the 2022 Winter Olympics fast approaching, organizations like Hockey Canada are starting to make preparations for the teams they will send to represent the country.
‘It was a pretty cool moment for all those guys,’ says Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper
Twenty years ago, a couple dozen hockey players and their parents piled into the Lansing Catholic High School cafeteria.
Each month we’ll give a shout out to one NHL team’s coaching staff for pulling out ahead of the pack. The month of February 2021 goes to the Tampa Bay Lightning coaching staff!
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