Stars and Stripes will be front and center standing behind the benches when the Stanley Cup Final begins in Pittsburgh on Monday.
In a sport dominated by Canadian coaches through the history of the game, American-born head coaches have been a rarity. It’s even more rare for one to have been the head coach of a Stanley Cup winning team.
Two American coaches facing off against each other in a Stanley Cup Final? Never happened.
Until now. When the puck drops at PPG Paints Center in Pittsburgh for Game 1 of the 2017 Stanley Cup Final both respective coaches born in the U.S.A – Peter Laviolette for...
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