The San Jose Sharks have hopped on the NHL teaching carousel. Following a last-place season in 2023-24, the Sharks have fired head coach David Quinn, the crew introduced on Tuesday.

Quinn was employed by the Sharks previous to the 2022-23 season, and he took over one of many worst rosters within the NHL. San Jose was an abysmal 22-44-16 in his first yr on the job, and as basic supervisor Mike Grier continued to tear the roster right down to its studs, issues solely received worse in 2023-24.

The Sharks completed with a league-worst document of 19-54-9, and their -150 aim differential ranked lifeless final by 39 targets. The crew hadn’t posted a document that poor since 1995-96.

“After going by means of our finish of the season means of inner conferences and evaluating the place our crew is at and the place we wish our group to go, we’ve got made the troublesome choice to make a change on the head coach place,” Grier mentioned in an announcement “David is an effective coach and an excellent higher individual. I want to personally thank him for his exhausting work over these previous two seasons. He and his workers did an admirable job below some troublesome circumstances, and I sincerely admire how they dealt with the state of affairs.”

Quinn leaves the Sharks with an total document of 41-98-25. In his 5 years of NHL head teaching expertise, three of which had been with the New York Rangers, Quinn has compiled a profession document of 137-185-50.

Because the Sharks look towards the long run, they may want a head coach who focuses on growing younger expertise because the rebuild continues. The crew already has a handful of highly-anticipated prospects, and it’ll solely add to its deep farm system on the 2024 NHL Draft.