Two more Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League teams are in search of new bench bosses ahead of the 2018-19 campaign.
In a pair of announcements made Wednesday morning, Kindersley Klippers head coach and general manager Geoff Grimwood had resigned from his positions, while Notre Dame Hounds head coach and general manager Clint Mylymok is leaving the club to become the head coach and general manager of the expansion Maryland Black Bears of the North American Hockey League.
Grimwood posted a 79-82-8-5 record in three seasons with the Kiippers, which included trips to the quarter-final round in 2016 and 2018.
Mylymok, meanwhile, had a 114-90-13-13 mark over four seasons in Wilcox, with his most successful campaign coming in 2014-15 as the Hounds made their first trip to the SJHL final since winning hte league in 1988.
The entire Global Ag Risk Solutions Division will have different head coaches coming into next season, as the Battlefords North Stars are looking for a replacement for Brandon Heck and the Humboldt Broncos are in the process of hiring a successor to the late Darcy Haugan.
The four coaching vacancies in the SJHL at the moment matches the number of changes that took place during the 2016-17 off-season.
During that summer, Nate Bedford replaced Kevin Hasselberg as the North Stars head coach and general manager, Devin Windle moved from the Nipawin Hawks to Melville Millionaires to replace Jamie Fiesel, and assistant coaches Wes Rudy and Casey O'Brien were both promoted by the Weyburn Red Wings and the Yorkton Terriers respectively to replace Bryce Thoma and Trent Cassan.
Chiefs win RBC Cup
A two-month layoff and a coaching change prior to the tournament didn’t harm the Chilliwack Chiefs as they hosted the RBC Cup.
The BCHL club, who were knocked out of the first round of the playoffs by the Prince George Spruce Kings, captured the national Junior A hockey title on home ice Sunday with a 4-2 win over the Wellington Dukes of the OJHL.
The Chiefs, who fired head coach and general manager Jason Tatarnic a week before the event and promoted associate coach Brian Maloney, advanced to the final with a 3-2 win over the CCHL’s Ottawa Jr. Senators.
After finishing fourth in the round-robin, the Dukes reached the title game with a 2-1 triumph over the BCHL’s Wenatchee Wild.
The MJHL’s Steinbach Pistons, who topped the Hawks in the Anavet Cup, missed out on the playoffs with an 0-4 record.
Junior A teams across Canada and the United States are now preparing to earn a spot at the 2019 RBC Cup, which will be hosted by the AJHL's Brooks Bandits.
