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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| oilfan94 wrote on Mon, 12 January 2026 16:26 |
Bowness was actually the coach before this last one in Dallas. He got them to the Stanley Cup final in 2020. He coached the Jets most recently in 2024 before retiring. I see this as a Ken Hitchcock fill out the rest of the season kind of move.
Also, his loss stats are inflated by the fact that he had to coach the Ottawa Senators expansion team when they first started. if you remove his Ottawa years he is 271-230-30-37 as a coach, which most of that being after the age of 65.
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Oh, you're right. I'm confusing him a little with DeBoer.
That said, his departure in Winnipeg wasn't exactly stellar with the players either. And I maintain that he failed to get anything out of his expansion team the entire time he was there, and he's only just above fake .500 even with a bunch of time with two good teams in Winnipeg and Dallas. He's not a coach who's ever lifted a team.
And now he's 70. He ain't turning around the Blue Jackets.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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