Kris Knoblauch
Here along the Lake Does having the best head coach assure a team of a Stanley Cup, of course not, there are way too many mitigating factors involved during an NHL game to credit the outcome to just the coach.
Edmonton HC Knoblauch As a teenager Kris Knoblauch played his major junior hockey in the WHL on four different teams and when he turned 20 years of age began playing collegiate hockey for five seasons for the University of Alberta in the CWUAA.
Kris played one season of minor professional hockey in the now defunct CHL before becoming an assistant coach in the WHL, and in his third season was promoted to head coach where he took the team he once played for and won the WHL Ed Chynoweth Cup championship.
After winning the WHL championship Kris was made head coach of the OHL Erie Otters that had a 15 years old Connor McDavid and 18 years old Connor Brown in the line-up and the Otters lost twice as many games as they won, they were horrible.
But after three seasons Kris and the Otters with teenagers Alex DeBrincat and Dylan Strom won the OHL J. Ross Robertson Cup championship and after this success Kris was picked up as an assistant coach for the NHL Philadelphia Flyers for two seasons, then put in their farm system as head coach of the AHL Hartford Wolf Pack making the playoffs once.
Additionally, Kris was brought up from Hartford to be the Head Coach of the New York Rangers for two games during 2021 because of irrational covid protocols implemented by political activist Bettman.
During the NHL 2023-24 season the Edmonton Oilers made Kris their mid-season replacement head coach who promptly guided the team to the Stanley Cup finals eventually losing to the Panthers where they would meet again in the Cup finals this season and now face game six elimination in Florida this Tuesday night.
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