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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
John Cooper says hi. Won the Calder Cup and Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award in 2011/12. Was promoted to Lightning head coach the next season.
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Cooper had double the years of experience as a head coach on other levels and won a championship in the three leagues that he was a head coach (twice in the NAHL). That's 4 championships in 9 seasons of finishing the season as head coach and he was promoted to the NHL 3/4 of the way into his 10th season.
Mitch Love has 5 years as a head coach, 3 in the WHL where the pandemic severely altered two of those years (no playoffs were played) and two years as head coach in the AHL. Conroy felt he needed more seasoning which I think is very reasonable.