Five and a half years into his tenure as head coach — a tenure that saw the organization transform all the way from dead-last to back-to-back 100 point seasons inside five years — the change many in the market were speculating about since GM Kyle Dubas took over the job from Lou Lamoriello is now a reality.
Brendan Shanahan is now all in on Dubas’ vision for the team, firing the bench boss he courted and paid more than any coach in the game to at the start of the rebuild in 2015 and replacing him with Dubas’ running mate since his OHL days in the Soo.