Hiring new coaches - deadline Tuesday 11:59 PM

[JiriHrdina]

Teams needing a coach can now bid on any coach without a contract:

Here's how it will work.

You may send in three orders ranked according to your first choice, second choice and third choice.

The team that offers the highest per average contract amount gets the coach.

If you lose on your first choice, we then look at your second choice, etc.

Include the # of years and contract amount in your offers.

Minimum amount is 100K.

You do not need to have cap space to sign a coach.

The deadline is Tuesday at 11:59 PM MST.

If necessary we will do another round after that.

If you aren't sure if a coach is available please PM me. In general any coach active, or recently active in pro/junior hockey is valid. Coaches who are retired (e.g. Don Cherry, Scotty Bowman) are not.

Questions?

[Caged Great]

Only 6 teams without coaches

Detroit
LA
Colorado
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Florida

Bylsma, Sacco, DeBoer, Arniel and Wilson headline the group of coaches, with a large amount of freshmen NHL coaches available: Gulutzan (Stars), Payne (STL) Capuano (NYI) Yeo (Min) Noel (Jets) MacLean (Ott) Dineen (Fla)

[Caged Great]

Here's a list of coaches under contract with the various teams

Brent Sutter
Darryl Sutter
Tortorella
Ramsey
Laviolette
Quinn
Vigneault
Boudreau
Tippett
Carlyle
Martin
Renney
Therrien
Julien
Terry Murray
Boucher
Maurice
MacTavish
Trotz
Babcock
Quenneville
Hitchcock
McLellan
Ruff

[Da_Chief]

sent it cphl1 or cphlufa?

[JiriHrdina]

cphlufa

[Slava]

Hypothetically if I were to want to fire my coach and hire someone else am I too late? (my own fault if so, obviously). If I were.to do that does the contract count against the cap?

[Caged Great]

As far as I know, if you fire your coach, it counts to the cap for this year. I don't know if that's allowed right now or not.

[JiriHrdina]

Yup if you fire your coach the entire remaining amount of their contract would count against your cap. You can do it now if you want.

[SweetDoc]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Only 6 teams without coaches

Detroit
LA
Colorado
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Florida

Bylsma, Sacco, DeBoer, Arniel and Wilson headline the group of coaches, with a large amount of freshmen NHL coaches available: Gulutzan (Stars), Payne (STL) Capuano (NYI) Yeo (Min) Noel (Jets) MacLean (Ott) Dineen (Fla)

Is this the entire list of coaches available or are there more?

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by SweetDoc

Is this the entire list of coaches available or are there more?

Well you could sign someone not on either list, but they aren't working in the nhl as head coaches this year

[JiriHrdina]

Winning contracts:

Buffalo
Dan Bylsma 2 @ 401K

LA
Ron Wilson 2 @ 150K

Colorado
Paul Maclean 3 @ 150K

Philly
Peter Deboer 1 @ 110K

Florida
Kevin Dineen 3 @ 100K

I think that just leaves one team (Detroit) without a coach. They can email us who they want to hire and for how long.

[looooob]

hmm obviously we are big spenders here. bit of a last minute decision as we also looked at bringing back Ron Wilson or signing Scott Arniel for much lower dollar figures, but at the last minute decided to make a bid on a guy who has won a Stanley Cup in the NHL and who we find to be an interesting character. whether he has any impact on our team, unsure but as we go into a mini-rebuild this year, maybe he is a better fit than Ron Wilson the only coach we've ever had a guy who did bring us the CPHL championship so we wish him (sort of) all the best in LA

[SweetDoc]

Originally Posted by looooob

hmm obviously we are big spenders here. bit of a last minute decision as we also looked at bringing back Ron Wilson or signing Scott Arniel for much lower dollar figures, but at the last minute decided to make a bid on a guy who has won a Stanley Cup in the NHL and who we find to be an interesting character. whether he has any impact on our team, unsure but as we go into a mini-rebuild this year, maybe he is a better fit than Ron Wilson the only coach we've ever had a guy who did bring us the CPHL championship so we wish him (sort of) all the best in LA

Due to an oversight, the Kings were operating without a coach in the sim last season until about 30-35 games in. Once Grant and I realized I didn't actually have a coach we added Bylsma to the sim file. It may have been some a huge coincidence, but the team started losing a ton of games after Bylsma was added and the Kings never really did recover.

You might be better off without a coach :P

Good luck with Bylsma and I'll see if Wilson can light a fire under this team's a$$.

[Young Guns]

Man that Detroit GM is cheap

[Hanna Sniper]

Funny thing is when I hired Lindy Ruff once he was fired from the penguins I offered him .850M. And I still think I signed him at a bargain