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Winnipeg Jets Not Expected To Retain Coaching Staff

May 2, 2022 at 10:52 am CDT | by Gavin Lee 3 Comments

The Winnipeg Jets decided that the blame for this season’s collapse was not on general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, or at least not enough to stop them from signing the executive to a three-year extension. It’s a very different story for the coaching staff. Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff reports that interim head coach Dave Lowry and assistants Jamie Kompon and Charlie Huddy will not return next season. Wade Flaherty, also an assistant, is expected to remain with the team. Speaking to the media today, Cheveldayoff explained that the club will conduct an exhaustive search and that Lowry has at least done enough to earn an interview.

Lowry of course is more than just the interim coach of the team, he’s also the father of Jets’ center Adam Lowry who is currently signed through the 2025-26 season. The coach took over from Paul Maurice when he resigned from the team in December, but posted a record of just 26-22-6 down the stretch, not quite good enough for a team that was expected to be a Stanley Cup contender at the beginning of the year.

There are a lot of questions surrounding the future of the group in Winnipeg, not the least of which is Mark Scheifele, who seemed to suggest at yesterday’s media availability that he could be open to a change of scenery this offseason. That isn’t really in his hands, given the veteran center is signed through 2023-24, something you can say for basically the whole core group in Winnipeg.

The sole outlier is Pierre-Luc Dubois, who is a restricted free agent and could be after quite a big contract this summer. If he is going to commit long-term, or if the team expects Scheifele and others to continue to be interested in the path forward, the coaching staff is obviously a big problem to solve. With Lowry out, Cheveldayoff and company will have to conduct a search to find a suitable replacement, something that he hasn’t had to do for a decade.

Just a few years after Cheveldayoff took over in 2011, he fired Claude Noel and hired Maurice, who then served parts of nine seasons behind the Winnipeg bench. A future Hall of Fame coach, Maurice is one of the most experienced bench bosses in NHL history, having coached nearly 1,700 regular season games. Replacing him was always going to be a difficult job, and especially so for someone like Lowry, who had only ever been an assistant at the NHL level.

Now a more permanent replacement will have to be found, one that is in lockstep with a front office that has several difficult decisions to make. If the Jets don’t believe they can compete with the group they have, it could be a long few years for whoever is brought in.

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  1. Bucky76

    3 years ago

    Gronberg. Would a good replacement…

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  2. maxorange33

    3 years ago

    There is a lack of respect in the leadership of the dressing room. I think a character transplant is needed. I think Wheeler and Schiefele have lost the respect of the team and Maurice knew it. He knew that it was the one thing he couldn’t fix. He never lost the respect of the team but the team lost respect for its leaders.

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  3. MacJablonski--NotVegasLegend

    3 years ago

    @Gavin – Have you seen this article on NHL.com?
    (link to nhl.com)
    Either the Jets did an about-face from what Frank Seravalli has reported, or that NHL.com article was written much earlier in the day, and only posted on the site about 35 minutes ago. Frank doesn’t usually miss by a mile.

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