Bob Hartley Announces Retirement

Former Avalanche, Flames head coach Bob Hartley announces retirement - Daily Faceoff

Bob Hartley, who won the Stanley Cup as head coach of the Colorado Avalanche in 2001 and later led both the Atlanta Thrashers and Calgary Flames to playoff berths, announced his retirement on Friday. Hartley, 65, spent parts of 13 seasons as an NHL head coach with the Avalanche (1998 to 2002), Thrashers (2003 to 2007), and Flames (2012 to 2016). He won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s coach of the year in 2015 after helping the Flames end a six…

Bob Hartley Announces Retirement

Bob Hartley, a longtime head coach in the NHL who won a Stanley Cup championship and a Jack Adams Award, announced his retirement from coaching today. Hartley coached Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL to a Gagarin Cup title earlier this week. The announcement concludes a coaching career that began all the way back in the late 1980s. Hartley got his start in junior hockey, coaching the CJHL’s Hawkesbury Hawks. He coached the team to back-to-back tit…