Due to his wife, The coach of the New Jersey devils has officially announced his retirement
The Devils announced in a press release that they had sacked their head coach late on Tuesday afternoon. Devils Insider, NJ.com’s texting subscription service, was the first to report on the development.
Head coach Alain Nasreddine, an assistant, will take over in the meantime.
Hynes’s five-season stay in New Jersey comes to an end with this transfer.
Despite a modest comeback in November with a 7-7-1 victory, the Devils’ season-long struggles put further pressure on
Hynes in the dugout. On Saturday and Monday, the squad lost badly to the Rangers 4-0 and the Buffalo Sabres 7-1.
On Tuesday, Nasreddine will coach the Devils for the first time against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Peter Horachek, an NHL scout with the Devils, will also become an assistant coach on the coaching staff.
The only original member of Hynes’ team still playing for the Devils was Nasreddine. Since the two were coaching the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the AHL together in 2010–11, he has assisted Hynes in every season.
June 2, 2015, saw the hiring of Hynes as the Devils’ coach following Shero’s May 2015 appointment as general manager, which saw Shero take over for longtime GM Lou Lamoriello.
With Lamoriello’s departure in July 2015 to take a general manager position with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a new chapter in Devils hockey history has officially begun.
Throughout the Devils’ current rebuild, Hynes has been behind the bench. Shero has stuck with the coach, which has allowed him to develop with the squad. When Hynes’s first contract came to an end in the 2018–19 season, he received a multi-year extension.
