Some of the many NHL head coaching positions were filled this week as the Sharks, Panthers, and Senators picked new coaches today.
The worst of the three teams last season, the Panthers finished with a 38-35-9 record, good for 85 points and 3rd place in the Southeast Division. Last year's coach Jacques Martin remains as the Panthers' GM, and has chosen Peter DeBoer as his successor. DeBoar has spent the last several seasons as the coach of the OHL's Kitchener Rangers. In his 7 seasons there he has led his Rangers to a pair of OHL Championships and a Memorial Cup Championship as the best junior team out of the three members leagues of the Canadian Hockey League. They won the OHL last season and hosted the Memorial Cup, finishing 3rd. Says Martin of DeBoar;
