A new season brings three changes to the bench bosses in the Metropolitan Division from when we checked in last year. That makes up half of the six new head coaches named this off-season across the whole league. Let’s check in on them, with last year’s rank in parenthesis.
8. Spencer Carbery (NR) - Washington Capitals - Carbery, 41, gets his first NHL head coaching gig and starts at the bottom as an unknown. He’s well-known in the Caps’ organization where he worked for their ECHL affiliate South Carolina from 2010-16 and then the AHL Hershey Bears from 2018-20, before spending the last two seasons as an assistant for NHL Toronto.