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Hurricanes fire Rich Preston, bring in Brad Robson after four-year playoff drought
A chinook is a warm, heavy, wind that attacks East of the rockies during the middle of winter. Sometimes the winds are powerful enough to be classified as hurricane-force, upsetting the comfort of the communities in Southern Alberta even if they can melt the snows and bring an early spring.
In a meteorological sense, it isn't a pleasant winter in Lethbridge most years, and recently the city hasn't had a winning hockey team to cheer for either. Rich Preston, who has guided the local Western Hockey League team since the start of the 2009-2010 season, has found a way to finish outside of the playoffs four years straight as head coach and general manager of the Hurricanes. The team announced today that they've fired Preston from both roles, bringing aboard Brad Robson, who had served as the team's assistant general manager, and director of player personnel and scouting for the last four seasons. He will now wear only the general manager's hat and search for a coach.
So in the metaphorical sense, a rare multi-year stretch out of the playoffs has brought "the winds of change" to Lethbridge. Even in the 12-team Eastern Conference, where each of the teams has a lower odds of making the playoffs (67%) than they would in any other Conference in the Canadian Hockey League, it's rare for teams to find themselves out for consecutive seasons.
Before coming to the Hurricanes Robson, who is also a former Calgary Police officer, worked for the Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars as a Western Canada Scout from 1987 to 2007. Robson was also an owner and instructor of Conditioning for Excellence from 1990 to 2007, which offered a conditioning camp to elite players at the NHL, AHL, ECHL and European levels.
Following the announcement Robson outlined his plans for the immediate future, "We have some tweaking to do, yes, and that'll be looked after the next little while, I have the draft I have to look after, and then after that the coach is a priority. After a coach is selected, whoever that person may be, we will select an assistant coach that'll help out hockey club help our young players."
Robson added that he hopes to have a new coach in place by July. [Lethbridge Country FM 95.5]
Two takeaways if you click the link: the first is that Robson has one of the great WHL mustaches. The second is the backdrop of the press conference still features the logo used by the Hurricanes in the 2013 seasons. You may recall last week the Washington Capitals asked the Hurricanes to change the logo, and there was some speculation that the organization would announce everything at today's presser.
The logo to the left from Chris Creamer's indispensable website was used as an alternate by the club this season and could be the new primary mark of the team going forward. The "Hawker Hurricane" was a WWII-era jet, and the RAF No. 133 Squadron was based out of Lethbridge in 1942. They flew Hurricanes. Most of this information is coming from Wikipedia, but even if the team name "Hurricanes" didn't come from the wind tunnels, the jet is a fairly appropriate mark.
None of that has to do with the on-ice product, however. Pat Siedlecki, the voice of the Hurricanes, has a blog post up with audio from Tuesday's introductory press conference from both Robson and team president Brian McNaughton. Most of the words are standard "we have some pieces, we need to focus on which areas to improve" and so-on.
The Hurricanes went 100-156-13-19 in Robson's tenure as coach and GM.
