Have you ever watched a hockey game as a fan and found yourself questioning the sanity of the coaches? Perplexed, you try to ascertain just precisely WTF the coach is thinking when he doesn’t play a well-known superstar as much as you’d play him. If you were on the bench, things would be different.
At our conference this past summer, we got to relive perhaps the wildest third period of a Game 7 ever, through the eyes of San Jose Sharks coach Pete DeBoer.
The final minutes of the third period involved a scary injury to Sharks captain Joe Pavelski, a phantom five-minute major penalty, four San Jose goals on the ensuing power play to erase a 3-0 deficit, and a last minute goal by Vegas to tie the game.
“The whole series was memorable, topped off by a Game 7 that was the craziest game I’ve ever been part of,” said DeBoer.
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Peter DeBoer
DeBoer is currently the Head Coach of the Las Vegas Golden Knights after a three year stint with the San Jose Sharks.
He spent 13 years as a head coach in the OHL, winning Coach of the Year twice and a Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers in 2003. After beginning his NHL head coaching career with the Florida Panthers, DeBoer would make two trips to the Stanley Cup Finals with New Jersey in 2012 and San Jose in 2016. Internationally, he’s served as an Assistant Coach for Team Canada at the World Junior Championships(2 times) and World Championships(4 times).
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