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Ice terminate head coach’s contract
The Kootenay Ice will enter the 2012-2013 Western Hockey League (WHL) season with a new head coach.
Club general manager Jeff Chynoweth announced today (May 25) via the team website that Kris Knoblauch’s contract has been terminated, effective immediately.
“No other comments will be given at this time,” the website cryptically added.
The Ice went 82-47-7-8 in the two seasons Knoblauch was head coach (.569 winning percentage), and won the WHL championship during his first year at the helm (2010-2011), after stepping up from being an assistant to Mark Holick who departed to coach the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, the farm team for the Anaheim Ducks.
Knoblauch, 33, served three seasons as an assistant to Holick before taking over the head coaching duties.
The Ice were already on the hunt for an assistant coach as Todd Johnson departed to take over as head mentor of the University of Regina hockey club back in April.
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