Winnipeg Jets hire Rick Bowness as head coach - Daily Faceoff

Bowness recently spent the last three seasons coaching the Dallas Stars.Mar 4, 2022; Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN; Dallas Stars Head Coach Rick Bowness gestures in the third period against the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre. Mandatory Credit: James Carey Lauder-USA TODAY SportsThe Winnipeg Jets and veteran coach Rick Bowness are working on finalizing his agreement to be the next coach of the Jets.

The Jets needed to fill the position after previous head coach Paul Maurice resigned from his role in his ninth season behind the bench, believing that the players needed a new voice, and assistant coach Dave Lowry took over the position with an interim tag. They looked at several candidates, including Barry Trotz before he decided to take some time away with his family, and there were rumours that they, but they ultimately decided on Bowness.

Bowness comes with plenty of NHL experience on his coaching resume, including his recent stint from 2019-2022 with the Dallas Stars, where he helped lead them to the Stanley Cup Final in the bubble in 2020, and coached them to an 89-62-25 record. It’s also not his first time behind the bench in Winnipeg, as he was the head coach for the older iteration of the team in 1988-89, and even later returned to the organization in 2003-04 when he coached the Phoenix Coyotes.

Bowness also has a couple of unique distinctions. He’s currently the only active coach to have also coached in the 80s’, and also is at this point the only coach to have coached at some point in the ’80s, ’90s, ’00s, ’10s, and ’20s, especially impressive when you consider that he’s only coached for 12 seasons.Beyond this hiring, it’s not quite clear what the Jets plan on doing this offseason.

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