Yesterday Tampa Bay Lightning vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced that the team named Jon Cooper as the eighth head coach in Lightning franchise history.
"We are very pleased to introduce Jon as our head coach today," Yzerman said. "He has had success at every level he has coached and is extremely familiar with our organization, as well as our players. He has a tremendous record at all levels and we feel he is ready to make the move to the NHL."
This past Sunday the Lightning organization announced the release of head coach Guy Boucher who had been with the team for the past three years.
This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2013.