The Avalanche are making a coaching change, but it’s not with Jared Bednar.
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The head coach is remaining on board with full confidence from general manager Chris MacFarland and team president Joe Sakic. However, assistant coach Ray Bennett was let go by the organization on Tuesday.
The announcement was made at Tuesday afternoon’s season-ending press conference with MacFarland and Sakic
Bennett, who was hired in 2017 to join Bednar’s staff, was in charge of the power play. Colorado was ranked 14th out of 16 playoff teams on the man advantage.
When you look at how we lost, we just feel maybe a different voice should help,” Sakic said. “Our power plays have been top-10 over the last few years, but we feel the way things ended, maybe a different voice going into next year could help that.”
The Avs were 3-for-22 on the man advantage in their seven-game series against the Dallas Stars, and Nathan MacKinnon had all three of those goals. In a game of inches, every opportunity matters.
“But ultimately, execution, it comes from the players. Your top players,” Sakic said. “We have some of the top players in the world on our team. They’re the ones out there that need to execute. So it just ran dry at the wrong time. It’s tough to make a change. You don’t like to do that, but we feel moving forward, we’re hoping that a change of voice might help our power play going into next year.”
