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"There's a collaborative effort that goes on in the coaching room, there's a lot of smart guys back there, and really good people. "I've thoroughly enjoyed being part of this staff," Blashill said. Coming to an organization like the Lightning, who have been to three successful Stanley Cup Finals and won two of them, has been a positive experience as well. To a large degree, the chapter closed last June, but it will be good to kind of, once these games are over with and moving on past them just from an emotional standpoint."īlashill also has known Cooper for a long time, and the two have been longtime friends. "Walking into the visitor's room, that'll be a different feeling, obviously. "There's probably some reality to that, going to Detroit would be different for sure," Blashill said. 21, and Blashill said that might be a different sort of feeling than Tuesday. Tampa plays at Little Caesars Arena on Dec. "There's been times this year where I went to look at the stats and I thought I was looking at the wrong team," Blashill said. The Wings are only two points from Tampa in the Atlantic Division standings. "But at the end of the day he's a good friend, with a great family, and I hope he'll say the same thing about me."īlashill has been impressed with the Wings' play thus far. "I've spoken with him through the last couple of months at different times and there's some awkwardness there, that we filled each other roles and that doesn't happen very often. But Blashill isn't focused on saving his future so much as salvaging the present. A slew of embarrassing losses for the Red Wings has put their head coach on the hot seat. "There's some awkwardness to that, there's a lot of emotion that goes into all that stuff, and when you leave an organization it's a hard thing," Blashill said. Ma12:00 pm Jeff Blashill has been here before, trying to fix a floundering team as critics call for his job. The irony of the entire matter is, Blashill took over Derek Lalonde's assistant coach's position in Tampa, while Lalonde replaced Blashill as the Wings' head coach.įurther, the two have been friends since roughly 2002 when Lalonde replaced Blashill on the Ferris State coaching staff, after Blashill took an assistant coach's job at Miami (Ohio).īut switching jobs at the NHL level, yes, that has been odd for the two friends. It'll be interesting what those emotions will be like." Obviously the staff I was with throughout. A lot of guys, a lot of players in that room, I've coached a long time. The Detroit Red Wings have been in this position multiple times the past several weeks needing to redeem themselves following an embarrassing performance. "I can't tell you how I'm going to feel until we're in the middle of it.

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These games are super important, (but) I'd be lying if I said something different about emotions going on because certainly that's the case."Īt the pro level, this is the first time Blashill can remember going through an experience like this one, facing a team he's so closely attached to. "We want to win a game, and they want to win a game. "Honestly, I hadn't thought much about it until yesterday, coming into today. "Certainly it'll be a little different emotions coaching against an organization I spent that much time with," Blashill told reporters.

But, the early indications are that the team could be targeting a number of coaching options.Also, knowing the Red Wings, the team Blashill coached for seven seasons (204-261-72) before not being retained in April, are here Tuesday playing the Lightning.īlashill, who spent 11 seasons in the Wings organization either in Detroit or Grand Rapids (2013 Calder Cup champion), admits it's going to be strange. The options are far from being narrowed down as the news is still fresh. That being said, the Red Wings are going to have to target a new coach. Blashill’s performance was questionable at times, and Yzerman opted to move on. There was some assumption that during a rebuild, the number of wings was not going to be the highest.īut, in 2021-22, there was some assumption that the Red Wings were going to be better, but things did not get to the level that many were hoping they would. He’s a career 204-261-72 in his career as a bench boss, which is good for a. Since then, it was a lot of seventh and eighth place in the division finishes. He has coached himself to a first-year playoff run which ended in a first-round loss. The Detroit Red Wings are parting ways with head coach Jeff Blashill.Īfter spending the last seven seasons serving as the Red Wings, his tenure with the organization has been a lengthy one. The search for a new head coach begins now. It was just under a year ago that Yzerman announced the team’s coach for this past season, but now he’s making a much different announcement. Heading into the 2021-22 season, the Red Wings opted to bring back Blashill.