The wording used makes me believe he was told he wouldn't get a shot at the coaching job in Ottawa and decided to leave rather than stay in Bingo longer.
The wording used makes me believe he was told he wouldn't get a shot at the coaching job in Ottawa and decided to leave rather than stay in Bingo longer.
He wouldn't have left Bingo to come to Ottawa to be the HC would he? I thought he had said he would rather stay there to be close to his family?
Eugene Melnyk is proud to announce Luke Richardson as the new head coach of the Ottawa Senators
That was for last year. His daughter was finishing university and he didn't want to leave until then.
Rumour has it that he turned down the Sens interim HC position when Maclean was fired and he also turned down the Sabres HC gig for the same reason. I respect him for putting his family first.
I always thought Richardson made sense as the AHL coach when we had Maclean, and they were running significantly similar systems. We wanted to have a parallel teaching philosophy at all levels. That kind of got off-track once Cameron got the job.
Clearly, we aren't limiting our wholesale coaching purge to just the NHL level...
I look forward to our new Head Coach having some input into who will replace Richardson. Find our NHL guy, THEN get an AHL guy once you know what kind of system we'll have in place.