He finds another job. Often coaching at a college level, or moving on to another team, sometimes in the AHL.
Lindy Ruff was the coach for the Buffalo Sabres for 16 years and one of the NHL's longest serving coaches to one team. He was fired due to growing criticism for the team's early season struggles.
yes they fired head coach Josh mcdaniels and replaced him with running back coach Eric studesville for the rest of the season
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While it does not happen very often, it has happened before, the most recent coach is Dick Jauron who was fired after starting 3-9 this season. Mike Nolan was fired when he was half way through the season at 2-5 actually the most recent is Brad Childress the Vikings head coach Mike Singletary of the 49ers was the most recent, and it kind of does happen regularly.
Ted Owns was fired
because all of the coaches who are qualified enough to coach in the nhl are male
Scotty Bowman is the winningest coach in the regular season and the playoffs in NHL history. He had 1,244 regular season wins and 223 playoff wins.
Coach of the Year trophy in the NHL
Pat Burns
NHL Dirk. Graham
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