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The Senators’ season fell short of expectations. They fired their head coach, D.J. Smith, in December and temporarily replaced him with Jacques Martin. The strategy didn’t change much in Ottawa, and the team finished 26th overall in the NHL standings.
Ottawa must therefore find a new head coach this summer, and it seems that one candidate is already on the radar. Elliotte Friedman revealed on his 32 Thoughts podcast on Friday that the Senators are in discussions with Craig Berube.
Elliotte Friedman on 32TP:
“I have people telling me to watch Craig Berube there (Ottawa)”
“I’ve had a couple of teams tell me they really like Berube and they believe they’ve already interviewed him”
#GoSensGo pic.twitter.com/eQZFrSwHa0
– Ryan Hyndman (@RBHyndman) April 26, 2024
According to what he reports, several sources from several different teams believe the Senators not only have interest in Berube, but have already interviewed him.
Craig Berube is one of the good coaches available on the market, and the Senators don’t have much competition if they want to hire him. The only other team currently looking for a head coach is San Jose.
The Sharks recently fired David Quinn. The other team offering competition to the Senators was the Buffalo Sabres, but they solved their problem in the last few days by hiring Lindy Ruff.
Berube was fired by the St. Louis Blues in December, in his sixth season at the helm. He led the Blues to a Stanley Cup in 2019, in his first year as head coach.
He made the playoffs in his first four seasons at the Blues’ helm, before failing to qualify in his fifth campaign and being fired before completing half of his sixth season.
Aside from the St. Louis Blues, Berube was also head coach of the Flyers. He led the team for two seasons in 2013-14 and 2014-15.
The Senators have not made the playoffs since 2017. Berube would have the task of reviving a team that seems to have some good elements in place, but can’t seem to find its rhythm.
In particular, he would have the help of Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle and Jake Sanderson in his race towards the playoffs.
Nothing has been confirmed yet, but it looks like we could very well see Craig Berube behind the Senators’ bench at the start of next season.
In Brief
– Potential targets for Kent Hughes.
Habs: will there be another Kirby Dach or Alex Newhook on the market this summer?(@KDubeJDQ, @benrioux) https://t.co/5MYBgEolfu
– Le Journal de Montréal (@JdeMontreal) April 26, 2024
– Another year of talking about Toronto’s clean sweep.
What happens if Toronto doesn’t come back in its series against Boston?
“It’s over, if you don’t make it past the first round, one of the gang is gone! Maybe Marner, Nylander, Tavares…It doesn’t work that way!” -@Lappy14
Les Amateurs de sports with @LangloisMario pic.twitter.com/vo1TvNq0pK
– 98,5 Sports (@985Sports) April 27, 2024
– Ayoye.
Capitals say Trevor van Riemsdyk will not return with an upper-body injury – already missing Nick Jensen and Rasmus Sandin https://t.co/SE1F7ol3F2
– Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) April 27, 2024
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- NHL players who will send their GM a 'thank you' card next summer
- Pitcher bizarrely faces old team on same day of trade
- The 'NFL stadium names' quiz
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Seranthony Dominguez certainly had an eventful day on Tuesday. The veteran MLB reliever began the day on the Baltimore Orioles and was with his teammates in the dugout during the first leg of a doubleheader against the Toronto Blue Jays. The O's went on to win, 16-4, at Oriole Park in Baltimore, though Dominguez did not pitch during the game. But the day took a bizarre turn when the two teams agreed to a deal in the middle of the doubleheader. The Orioles traded Dominguez to the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league pitcher Juaron Watts-Brown. That led to a strange scene where Dominguez switched clubhouses after being traded, walking across the hallway to get to the Toronto side. Things got even weirder during the second leg of the doubleheader. Dominguez got the call to pitch for the Blue Jays against his former team. He had to walk past his ex-Baltimore teammates to get to the Toronto bullpen, and then entered the game in the seventh inning to pitch. Here is the unusual spectacle that saw Dominguez pitch against the guys that he began the day as teammates with. The whole thing was so bizarre that it even looked like Dominguez received a hastily-made Blue Jays jersey with the “8” in his No. 48 apparently stuck on backwards. Dominguez, a 30-year-old in his seventh MLB season, ended up striking out two in a scoreless frame against his former team. We have certainly seen instances of MLB players getting traded in the middle of games before, but that had to be the first instance of a player starting the first half of a doubleheader on one team and then pitching in the second half for the other team.
Paul Finebaum Hints At Premier College Football Coach Being Fired with Poor Season
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Red Sox Targeting All-Star Starter At 'Annoying Level'
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