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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
But I do think a year in the AHL would be a smart move for an import coach.
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That would help... but you'd still run into the same recruitment problems for the AHL that you would for the NHL. Namely, that you'll be picking not from the total pool of coaches but from the pool of coaches who are fluently bilingual. Plus you'd need to first have specific recruiters/coaching scouts who are intimately familiar with the leagues and then (assuming you found a great candidate) you'd need to convince some middle aged man to uproot his family and move to a foreign country so that he can ride a bus between Scranton and Utica for probably as much as he'd make back home.
Seems like more trouble then it's worth for all parties concerned.
I don't think we see any European coaches until we see more European GM's.