In a stunning move Tuesday morning, the Blackhawks fired head coach Joel Quenneville and assistant coaches Kevin Dineen and Ulf Samuelsson, then named Jeremy Colliton as the team’s head coach. Colliton, who’s just 33, becomes the youngest active head coach in the NHL and takes over after coaching the IceHogs since the summer of 2017.
An Alberta native, Colliton’s hockey career took him to the WHL’s Prince Albert Raiders before the New York Islanders selected him in the second round (58th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. Two years later, the then-20-year-old center made his NHL debut Nov.