BREAKING: NHL Western Conference Team Fires Their Head Coach After Disappointing Start to Season

The Minnesota Wild have fired Head Coach Dean Evason following a disappointing 5-10-4 start. Along with Evason leaving the team is Assistant Coach Bob Woods.

Previously an Assistant Coach for the team, Evason was named as Head Coach for the Minnesota Wild in 2020, after serving as interim. With the emergence of Kirill Kaprizov, Evason quickly helped create a consistent playoff team, making the playoffs in all of his 3 full seasons, but failing to make it out of the first round.

Evason, in his first Head Coaching job in the NHL, had a 147-77-27 record with the Wild in 251 career games. Evason was a Jack Adams finalist for Top NHL Coach, finishing 2nd to Hurricanes Rod Brind'Amour.

As a player, Evason played 803 Games in the NHL for 5 teams in 13 seasons, selected 89th Overall by the Washington Capitals in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft.

Bob Woods has spent the past 7 seasons with the Minnesota Wild as an Assistant Coach. Woods and Evason spent time together as Assistant Coaches in the AHL with Hershey under Head Coach Bruce Boudreau.

Woods took over for Boudreau in Hershey in 2008 after the latter took on the Capitals Head Coaching job. Woods would later take the Assistant Coaching job under Boudreau in both Washington and Anaheim between 2009-2014. Evason and Woods were later Assistants to Boudreau in Minnesota, Woods joining his former mentor in 2017 and Evason in 2018.