Daniel Alfredsson returning to Ottawa Senators coaching staff
The Ottawa Senators all-time point's leader will return to the team's coaching staff next season.
- Sign up now for our daily CTV News Ottawa newsletters
- The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App
Head coach Travis Green and president of hockey operations Steve Staios announced Daniel Alfredsson will join the coaching staff after one season of serving as assistant coach.
"Daniel’s wealth of hockey knowledge, his mindset as it relates to a standard we want to incorporate and his understanding of what it takes to win make him an invaluable compliment to both our staff and to our team," Green said in a news release on Tuesday.
Alfredsson was brought on as assistant coach last year after Jacques Martin was hired as the Senators interim head coach.
Alfredsson spent 17 seasons with the Senators as a player, playing in 1,178 games, with 682 assists and 1,108 points – all francise records. After retiring in 2014, the Hall of Famer returned to the Senators front office as a senior adviser of hockey operations for two seasons before departing in 2017.
Along with Alfredsson, Ben Sexton, goaltending coach Justin Peters and video coach Mike King, are all set to return.
The team also announced new additions to the coaching staff, hiring Nolan Baumgartner and Mike Yeo to serve as assistant coaches.
"We’re pleased to welcome both Nolan and Mike as new members of the Senators’ organization,” Staios said in the news release.
"In addition to Daniel, Ben, Justin and Mike’s respective return, we’re confident that this coaching staff represents a strong blend of experience and one that will provide Travis with high-level support while they collectively lead our team going forward."
Baumgartner, 48, most recently served as an assistant coach with the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose for two seasons. He also previously worked as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks for four seasons with head coach Travis Green. Baumgartner also played in the NHL.
Yeo, 50, served as head coach of the Minnesota Wild for four seasons from 2011 to early 2016 and of the St. Louis Blues for three seasons starting in Feb. 2017.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
EXCLUSIVE Canadian lawyers play key role in money laundering, says financial intelligence report
A report by Canada's financial watchdog obtained by the Investigative Journalism Foundation working in collaboration with CTV News looked at Canadian lawyers' potential role in money laundering schemes, including those by organized crime groups like biker gangs and drug cartels.
More victims come forward in Ottawa rental scam
More people in Ottawa have come forward who say they've fallen victim to a real estate scam, with scammers posing as real estate agents trying to rent real properties.
Biden, Trump square off for a podium rematch, signalling start of presidential battle
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are preparing to square off in their first presidential debate of the campaign tonight as the tight race for leadership of the United States begins to ramp up.
Bill Cobbs, 'Air Bud' and 'The Sopranos' actor, dies at 90
Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He was 90.
'Worrying rumours' of planned 'non-consensual sexual acts' at after-prom party prompts Quebec police investigation
Police south of Montreal are investigating, and a school centre has asked parents not to allow their children to attend an after-prom party, after 'worrying rumours that unsavoury events were be planned by certain individuals related to drugs and non-consensual sexual acts.'
'Inhumane': Residents of Toronto condo report stifling temperatures after weeks without air conditioning
Entering their fourth week without air conditioning in their downtown Toronto condo, residents say stifling indoor temperatures have become 'unbearable.'
He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for US$175,000
Vermont has agreed to pay US$175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
'I'm sorry, God': Accused at Coutts border blockade cried when protest abandoned
Anthony Olienick, sitting alone in an empty police interrogation room, breaks down in tears when he learns the COVID-19 protest blockade at Coutts, Alta., has disbanded in part because of his arrest.
Rescuers seek to bring down bodies found on Japan's Mount Fuji
Three bodies were found inside a crater at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan's most famous mountain, with one of them already brought down from the slopes, police said Thursday.