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Caps Hire Peter Laviolette as Head Coach

As first reported by Elliotte Friedman and confirmed by (friend of the site) Samantha Pell, the Caps have hired Peter Laviolette as head coach:

Pell later confirmed that Laviolette’s deal will be for 3 years, and Pierre LeBrun said that the deal will be for “north of $4 million per year.

This will be Laviolette’s fifth head coaching job, as he was the head coach of the Nashville Predators from 2014-2020, the Philadelphia Flyers from 2009-14, the Carolina Hurricanes from 2003-2009, and the New York Islanders from 2001-2003.

Laviolette has won a Stanley Cup with the Hurricanes in 2005-06, and made two other appearances in the Stanley Cup with the Flyers in 2009-10 and the Predators in 2016-17.

Alex Ervin of Japers Rink previewed Laviolette as a potential head coaching candidate a few days ago, noting that he might bring discipline to the Caps, but there’s been some mild controversy at his prior stops:

As noted by Pell, Laviolette seems to fit the description of what the Caps were looking for:

From the team’s press release on the hiring:

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