Jon Cooper teaches. He motivates. He delegates. Mostly, he just wins.
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 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!
Cooper, the Tampa Bay Lightning coach, won the 2020 Stanley Cup to add to his enviable trophy case. One key to his success, a former boss said, is that he keeps learning.
John Romano | Now starting his eighth full season in Tampa Bay, Cooper has a resume that might one day compare favorably to the game’s best.
Long before ever having his named etched onto the Stanley Cup as assistant coach of the 2019-20 Tampa Bay Lightning, Brasher Falls native Derek Lalonde had already earned his place in the St. Lawrence Central Sports Hall of Fame.
New assistant Rob Zettler took over as the head coach in Syracuse when Jon Cooper was promoted to Tampa Bay back in 2013
During his career with the Princeton University men’s hockey team in the late 1990s, Jeff Halpern got to lift a championship trophy.
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