On January 7, 2020 - just one day after the surprising mid-season firing of Peter Laviolette - Predators General Manager David Poile announced John Hynes as the new head coach of the Nashville Predators. While GMDP seemed confident in the decision, many in Nashville were surprised and perhaps even a little alarmed by the hiring. Hynes didn’t have a lengthy NHL coaching resume, having recently been fired by the New Jersey Devils just three and a half seasons into his National Hockey League head coaching career. Still, Poile declared John Hynes the best choice for the struggling Predators and was emphatic that Nashville was getting Hynes at the right time in Hynes’s career.
Two years into John Hynes’s tenure, was he the right coaching choice for Nashville?
