Next up in our list of potential coaching replacements for Jerry York is Scott Gordon, a Boston College alumnus who has spent most of the past two plus decades coaching at both the AHL and NHL levels.
Scott Gordon started his head coaching career in the IHL and the ECHL before becoming an assistant coach for the AHL’s Providence Bruins in 2000. He eventually became the team’s head coach in 2002 and remained in that position for six seasons. Gordon’s Providence Bruins made the playoffs in each of his six seasons behind the bench before he was eventually hired as the head coach of the New York Islanders in 2008.