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Dave Hakstol named head coach of Flyers

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Maybe the UND players will now stop squeezing the sticks too tightly in the tourney. Philly fans will eat him up if he doesn't produce.
 
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QUAlum2004 said:
This is stunning. When was the last time a college head coach made the jump to a head job in the NHL.

http://flyers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=768020
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It must have happened since "Badger Bob" Johnson went from UW to Calgary in 1982, but I can't come up with any other names.

I'm assuming since Ron Hextall's kid played at North Dakota, that's the connection to how this idea was hatched by the flyers.
 
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Seen and heard on GPL:

At least he has a good memory to go back to for all his home games at Wells Fargo Center. I wonder if every time he looks up at the scoreboard, all he will see is 0.6....
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This wasn't meant to rub it in, I just thought it was too good not to share.
 
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John J. MacInnes said:
It must have happened since "Badger Bob" Johnson went from UW to Calgary in 1982, but I can't come up with any other names.
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I think even Herb Brooks didn't go straight from NCAA HC to NHL HC.

Edit: Well, not when he left the Gophers, evidently. He did go straight from SCSU to the North Stars, but that was after having been an NHL HC earlier in the 80s.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
I think even Herb Brooks didn't go straight from NCAA HC to NHL HC.

Edit: Well, not when he left the Gophers, evidently. He did go straight from SCSU to the North Stars, but that was after having been an NHL HC earlier in the 80s.
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The first time he left Minnesota was to the Olympic team, and then if I remember right he coached in Europe for a season after that before taking the Rangers job.
 
Re: Dave Hakstol named head coach of Flyers

Word is Hakstol didn't even tell his players that they found out via twitter.
 
Re: Dave Hakstol named head coach of Flyers

Having accomplished everything he could in Division 1 hockey, Hakstol accepts the head coach position with the Philadelphia Flyers.
 
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