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Mitch Love interviewed by Original 6 NHL team
The Washington Capitals have been eliminated from the NHL postseason, and the team will be experiencing some significant changes this offseason. One of those changes will come behind the bench, as assistant coach Mitch Love is currently being interview by several NHL teams for a head coaching position.
Over the course of the 2024-25 season, several vacant coaching jobs became available, one of them being the Boston Bruins.
After an abysmal regular season, GM Don Sweeney is testing the open market to see what's available - and Mitch Love has emerged as a potential candidate.
Mich Love interviewed by Boston Bruins
According to RMNB, TSN's Pierre LeBrun reported Thursday that Love was among the candidates the Boston Bruins had interviewed for their vacant head-coaching job. Others in the mix include current interim head coach Joe Sacco, Bruins assistant coach Jay Leach, the Ontario Reign's Marco Sturm, former Edmonton Oilers bench boss Jay Woodcroft, and former Chicago Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson.
The Bruins fired then-head coach Jim Montgomery in November after the team went 8-9-3 in the first 20 games of the 2024-25 season, with Sacco filling his role for the remainder of the campaign. Boston finished the year ranked 28th in the league with a final record of 33-39-10 to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
In a recent interview, head coach Spencer Carbery the significance of Mitch Love's contributions to the team.
«He's done a tremendous job for us and very similar coaching path to where I came from, having been an assistant a couple years,» Carbery said of Love last week. «Hoping that he gets an opportunity at some point. He deserves it. He's earned it. He's done a great job coaching our D-corps the last two years, has had a ton of success as a head coach. He is a head coach, and so it's just a matter of him getting that opportunity.»
Mitch Love has already interviewed with the Seattle Kraken and Pittsburgh Penguins.
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MAI 23 | 45 ANSWERS Mitch Love interviewed by Original 6 NHL team Do you think Mitch Love will be hired by the Boston Bruins? | ||
| Yes | 29 | 64.4 % |
| No | 16 | 35.6 % |
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