Ottawa Senators making change at goaltending coach, bringing in Zac Bierk
Phoenix Coyotes goalie Zac Bierk looks for the puck as teammate Danny Markov checks Calgary Flames Steve Begin during first period NHL action in Calgary, Monday, March 24, 2003. The Ottawa Senators have named Bierk as their goaltending coach after reassigning Pierre Groulx to a scouting and development role. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld April 06, 2021 - 8:26 AM
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have named Zac Bierk as their goaltending coach after reassigning Pierre Groulx to a scouting and development role.
A native of Peterborough, Ont., Bierk has spent the last two-plus seasons as goaltending development coach with the Arizona Coyotes. He was primarily responsible for overseeing goaltending prospect development at the American Hockey League, major junior and collegiate levels.
Rival in Focus: New Jersey Devils by Bill Meltzer @BillMeltzer / philadelphiaflyers.com
It doesn t feel like all that long ago that the New Jersey Devils gave fits to virtually every team in the National Hockey League they were, after all, three-time Stanley Cup champions between 1995 and 2003 and took four trips to the Cup Final between 1995 and 2012 but none more so than the Flyers. The Flyers lost twice to the Devils in the Eastern Conference Final (1995, 2000) on New Jersey s way to winning the Stanley Cup and also fell to the Devils in the second playoff round in New Jersey s most recent run (2012) to winning the Eastern Conference Championship. While the Devils fell on hard times thereafter and have missed the playoffs in eight of the last 10 years, they ve often continued to, well, bedevil Philadelphia.