Canucks hire Perry Pearn as assistant coach

[John Bender*]

Looks like Kuzma confirmed Gully was retained to look after the PP. Hopefully the rumors are true that Gully had little input last season. Cause the PP was hard to watch (among other things).

Hamhuis needs to stay away from pps.

 

[BeardyCanuck03]

@patersonjeff·1 min
New #Canucks ass't coach Perry Pearn will join us @Team1040 at 4pm this afternoon

 

[Zaddy91]

Hamhuis needs to stay away from pps.

Sedin Sedin Vrbata
Edler Bieksa

Burrows Bonino Kassian
Sbisa/Higgins Corrado

 

[LiquidSnake]

The jets let him go.....

 

[Zaddy91]

I think they just want as many voices as possible testing what should be done to succedd,

His pedigree is nice, but yes this is definitely his last chance to do a good job.

 

[YouppiKiYay]

I recall when Montreal let him go there was outrage among the hockey intelligentsia. It was near the end of Pierre Gauthier's run. If I recall, Pearn was widely respected around the league, and the notion that Gauthier could fix his team by gassing an assistant coach was obviously absurd.

 

[John Bender*]

@patersonjeff·1 min
New #Canucks ass't coach Perry Pearn will join us @Team1040 at 4pm this afternoon

I wish paterson would move to wpg.

 

[Zaddy91]

I wish paterson would move to wpg.

Lol Yess

 

[a Fool]

still awaiting the hiring of george costanza

I thought they hired John Weisbrod? That fulfills the Costanza quotient

 

[thehockeyfanatic]

Too many bums in the alley spoil the soup kitchen...or something like that

 

[biturbo19]

@BradZiemer·2 mins
Pearn says he is not expecting to be lead assistant with #Canucks. May in fact watch most games from up top.

I like that. Seems like a good role for what i know of Pearn..."eye in the sky" tactician sort of role. Obviously get a very different perspective from up in the booth.

 

[me2]

Ben Kuzma ‏@benkuzma 1m

Desjardins is retaining Gulutzan as an assistant on his coaching staff that now includes Pearn, Lidster and cooper. #canucks

1 coach for every player! Now that's change.

 

[me2]

The jets let him go.....

One teams mediocrity is another teams beauty.

 

[Javaman]

I thought they hired John Weisbrod? That fulfills the Costanza quotient

Wouldn't Torts qualify as a Constanza? Italian, short, yells and screams a lot, invents reasons to avoid showing up for work...

Sure he got fired from the Canucks, but Costanza's bad deeds would inevitably lead to him getting fired. Just like Tortorella.

 

[bossram]

Medicine hat crew.

He's apparently here to run the PP.

 

[ihaveyuidonttouchme]

@BradZiemer·2 mins
Pearn says he is not expecting to be lead assistant with #Canucks. May in fact watch most games from up top.

I like that. Seems like a good role for what i know of Pearn..."eye in the sky" tactician sort of role. Obviously get a very different perspective from up in the booth.

interesting hire..have we had hired anyone to this sort of assistant job?

 

[Ventana*]

I like this. Another good hockey mind. Pretty solid management group now. Let's hope it translates to the ice.

 

[Free Edler]

Pearn has been the sacrificial lamb for incompetent head coaches in his last two stops (Montreal, Winnipeg), so perhaps this may be a case of pre-emptive self-preservation?

 

[oyvey]

Nhl.com lists 11 teams as having three assistant coaches. There are still 14 with two, and the Islanders have four.

I bet they're gonna make Gulutzan stand behind the bench doors with the equipment managers...

 

[DL44]

Pearn, a native of Stettler, Alberta, was fired by the Jets January 12, 2014,[1] after being hired in June 2012. Previously, he was an assistant with the Montreal Canadiens (2009–2011), New York Rangers (2004–2009), Ottawa Senators (1996–2004), and the original incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets (1995–1996). Pearn has also coached at the university and junior levels, including one season as head coach of the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League.[2][3] On August 11, 2014, he was hired as an assistant coach by the Vancouver Canucks.

Pearn served twice as an assistant coach with Canada's national junior team at the IIHF World Junior Championships (1990, 1991). As head coach, he led Canada to gold in 1993.

On plus side...
He was with the Sens thru their 'heyday' during the Alfy-Spezza-Heatley era.
He was with the Rangers during the Jagr years..
And with the Habs when they went on their remarkable run to the ECF..

So there's that...

Experience. Seen everything.
Will bode well if he really is a great communicator and good teacher. I have no idea of knowing for sure... but you don't hang around for 19 yrs coaching in the NHL if you don't have something solid to offer.

So I like the idea of the hire anyway...

 

[StronGeer]

Enjoy.

 

[Helistin]

@patersonjeff·1 min
New #Canucks ass't coach Perry Pearn will join us @Team1040 at 4pm this afternoon

So people will able to say 'I-c-pp on the ice' from now on?

 

[John Bender*]

So people will able to say 'I-c-pp on the ice' from now on?

Who doesn't like big, long, PPs? Hopefully we get to experience lots next season.