The New Jersey Devils dipped into the college ranks—sort
of—to find their next head coach.
Boston University graduate John Hynes, a member of the Terriers’ 1995 NCAA title team, was
announced as New Jersey’s newest bench boss on Monday, after spending the past
five seasons as head coach with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL). He finished with a
record of 231-126-10-17 with the Penguins, after toiling his first season with
the squad as an assistant coach.
WBS also won at least 42 regular-season games in each of
Hynes’ five campaigns at the helm, including 58 victories in 2010-11, according
to his profile at hockeydb.com.
Hynes, who began his coaching career as a graduate assistant
at BU, also served as an assistant coach with Wisconsin and UMass Lowell before becoming
head coach of USA Hockey’s National Development Program from 2003 to 2009.
A Warwick, R.I. native and a former defenseman, Hynes, 40,
becomes the youngest current NHL head coach, and is also one of a handful of
Devils head coaches who played college hockey, including John Cuniff (Boston
College), Herb Brooks (Minnesota), Kevin Constantine (Rensselaer), Lou
Lamoriello (Providence), and Adam Oates (Rensselaer).
Hynes will now attempt to get the Devils back into the
Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2012, when they won the Eastern
Conference and then fell to the Los Angeles Kings in six games in the Stanley
Cup Final.
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