ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — When Barry Trotz resigned, the Washington Capitals didn't even bother with a coaching search. General manager Brian MacLellan announced the anticipated move on Friday, June 29, 2018. I think he makes you look at the game a little bit differently.”Even the forwards who didn’t deal with Reirden on a one-on-one basis got an idea about his benefits to the team.“In the room and in practice he’s always giving little tips to everyone,” winger Devante Smith-Pelly said. But it is worth noting that from the 2004 draft to the 2008 draft, players picked by Washington after Round 1 who have played at least 100 NHL games are limited to Sami Lepisto, Mathieu Perreault, Tim Kennedy, Braden Holtby and Michal Neuvirth. The Capitals announced the hiring of Barry Trotz as coach and the promotion of Brian MacLellan from assistant GM to GM Monday evening. The team won the 2018 Stanley Cup Championship under Barry Trotz, with Reirden as its main assistant. So I think he’ll do a great job and definitely help us defend the Cup.”FILE - In this April 14, 2016, file photo, Washington Capitals assistant coach Todd Reirden talks with the team during a timeout in the third period of Game 1 in the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey playoffs against the Philadelphia Flyers in Washington. The move tells a tale of two coaches and is a basic admission that the Capitals made the wrong decision two years ago. On the other, there were signs pointing towards the MacLellan hiring, as the What’s next for the Capitals is uncertain. The Stanley Cup-champion Capitals have promoted Reirden to head coach to replace Barry Trotz. There was only one candidate and he got the job. After having missed the playoffs for the second time in seven years, the Washington Capitals hired former Nashville Predators coach Barry Trotz on May 26, 2014. “I just think he seemed to connect with everyone’s different personalities. Food for thought.The surprising news out of Washington today, though, was naming MacLellan as GM. Trotz resigned as head coach in June 2018, after winning the Stanley Cup for the first time in the franchise's history. If the answer to that isn’t a positive one, would the new GM consider trading his star at a later date? Or should we expect something a little more uncharacteristic and an attempt to go back to the more free-wheeling version of the Ovechkin era, when the Caps were at their height?Odds are in favor of going with defense, since that’s where the Cups seem to be going and where the Caps have been trying to build.How well will Trotz and Ovechkin work together? Every Sports Reference Social Media Account. Barry Trotz (205-89-34 record from 2014 to 2018) In his four seasons, Trotz led the team to two Presidents' Trophies and the first Stanley Cup in franchise history. One was a surprise, the other almost a given - but is it the right fit for Washington? This Month in Sports Reference He was hired less than two weeks after Trotz resigned and eight days after the veteran Cup-winning coach joined the New York Islanders.The 47-year-old former defenseman coached the American Hockey League’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for parts of two seasons before serving as an NHL assistant with Pittsburgh for four years. Adam Oates was named the Capitals' 16th head coach on June 26, 2012. It had also been suspected the Capitals would hire either Predators assistant GM Paul Fenton or former Pittsburgh GM Ray Shero to take the head chair in the front office to do the off-ice roster-shaping for Trotz.Above Trotz, the Capitals announced the internal promotion of Brian MacLellan from assistant GM to GM. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Connect with the definitive source for global and local news Are you a Stathead, too? “I think he taught me just a lot of little things positional-wise and things like that maybe other coaches never taught me. Arniel captured the Louis A.R. As the NHL moves away from taskmasters behind the bench, Reirden fits the mold of a modern coach.“I think he did a great job taking everybody for being different people and seeing things different ways,” Carlson said.

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