Rumor: Willie Dejardins New Dallas Stars Assistant Coach?

by Brad Gardner on Jul 12, 2010 10:45 AM CDT in Dallas Stars News

Windsorstar.com this morning had a short blurb that Willie Dejardins,coach of the Medicine Hat Tigers is the favorite to be the Dallas Stars new assistant head coach.

Willie Desjardins, the Medicine Hat Tigers bench boss who coached Team Canada at the 2010 world juniors in Saskat-chewan, is a leading candidate to join the Dallas Stars as an assistant coach, sources told The Pipeline Show bloggers Dean Millard and Guy Flaming.

Marc Crawford employed Stu Barnes, Charlie Huddy, and Andy Moog last year as assistant coaches. Barnes and Moog split time between the bench and the General Managers box. It was announced in early May that Andy Moog and the Stars had come a mutual agreement/parting of the ways and he will not return next season.

Said the Morning News in May...

``It was a situation where Andy was ready to move on and we discussed some things and just came to a mutual decision,'' Nieuwendyk said.

Moog agreed: ``I think we both agreed it was time to try something else. It was just something where there are things they want to do and things they need to try.''

Dejardins is a veteran coach of the Canadian junior leagues, and he was the head coach for Team Canada's World Junior team this past winter when the United States took the gold medal in Saskatchewan. He has coached the Medicine Hat Tigers for 8 season and been their general manager for 5.

You can see his bio here at their official web site.

Wikipedia Page.

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Nice hire!

I’m a big Dejardins fan (despite he plays for the rival Tigers) and he was due for an NHL promotion. The Tigers for a while were kind of an also-ran in the WHL until Willie took over and brought the team back to a more prominent position in the upper-level of the league. Glad to see it will be with the Stars.

Honestly – and trust me I’m not on the “fire Crawford” wagon like so many others are – if Crow doesn’t end up working out, I’d love to see Willie get a shot at running a pro team.

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by Art Middleton on Jul 12, 2010 10:58 AM CDT reply actions

Cool

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by Tyler Bouldin on Jul 12, 2010 11:02 AM CDT reply actions

This would be nice.

Perhaps after Zubov retires, he can replace Huddy. I just don’t like him so far and didn’t before he came to Stars.

I don’t like Crow, but I see no reason why he should go so soon. Let’s see how next year goes. I think he will remember LA and will try to do it differently in Stars. I’m not sure that he can, but it remains to be seen.

by Henri Muroke on Jul 12, 2010 11:26 AM CDT reply actions

Sick he is the coach in my hometown!

A good one at that, would be a nice connection to the Stars for me.

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