The Denver Pioneers lost a good thing last week, when it was confirmed that men’s hockey head coach Jim Montgomery was headed for the Dallas Stars as the team’s new bench boss.
Montgomery, like the last head coach in Dallas, has ties to the northern Texas team. Unlike Ken Hitchcock - who coached the team to their only Stanley Cup win to date - though, his history is through a whopping nine games played for the team at the NHL level in his final two seasons of play in the show.
At the coaching level, though, he’s made a much bigger name for himself than he ever did on the ice.