If there’s one thing the National Hockey League is great at, it’s recycling.
Recycling coaches, that is. For what seems like an eternity, most of the same group of head coaches have been passed around the league and its teams, one after the other. At times, it seems like the only way to get an NHL head coaching job is to have already had one before - whether it was last year or 10 years ago.
Take Darryl Sutter, for example. Sutter was hired earlier this month to sit at the helm of the Calgary Flames, replacing Geoff Ward.