TRAVIS GREEN HIRED AS OTTAWA SENATORS HEAD COACH

Ottawa Senators president of hockey operations and general manager Steve Staios announced today that the team has hired Travis Green as the team’s new head coach. The contract agreement has a duration of four seasons and will run through the end of the 2027-28 campaign.
A native of Castlegar, B.C., Green, 53, completed last season as the interim head coach of the New Jersey Devils and led the team to a record of 8-12-1 over 21 games. He had originally been hired as the team’s associate coach on June 22, 2023.
Prior to joining the Devils, Green spent four-plus seasons (from 2017 through 2021) as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks and posted a mark of 133-147-34 over 314 regular-season contests. He also earned a record of 10-7 over 17 post-season games which included guiding the Canucks, among the youngest teams to qualify for the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, to Game 7 of the Western Conference’s 2020 Second Round.