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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Randy Carlyle too. Not that I care too much about this Hartley conversation, but he was a head coach for 10 more years after his championship.
In recent history that exceeds Bylsma, Carlyle, and Robinson. Also exceeds Burns, but that is for different reasons.
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Caryle was only out for 1 season between TOR and ANA 2.0.
Last firing age 63. No idea if he wants/wanted to get back in, but at this point he's barely been out 2 full seasons.
I doubt anybody has been breaking down his door to hire him, but there have only been 12 openings since then:
Scandals:
Peters/Ward
Montgomery/Bowness
Babcock/Keefe
This season (mid-year):
Julien->Ducharme
Krueger->Granato
Sutter
Prev Season (mid-year):
VGK - DeBoer
NAS - Hynes
Off-season:
WAS - Laviolette
NJD - Ruff
MIN - Evason (interim confirmed full)
SJ - Boughner (interim confirmed full)
So you could say there's only been two situations where a team did an off-season search and actually hired someone new (Lavi and Ruff). All we can be really certain of is that a guy with a cup and multiple SCF appearances and the 7th winningest coach of all time were better options.