Last season after the World Junior Hockey Championship, the Czech Republic Ice Hockey Association went out and signed Liberec coach Filip Pesan as the coach for their U20 team, and it may be the best decision Czech ice hockey has made in a while.
Coach Pesan is young, has been involved in New York Rangers development camps, and he usually tries to get a chance to talk hockey with any coach he can when on the road in the Champions Hockey League, or out traveling in general.
Having met Coach Pesan briefly this summer, I have him pegged as the next European coach to get a chance in the NHL.