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CBC
3 days ago
- Sport
- CBC
Maple Leafs hire former Red Wings head coach Derek Lalonde as assistant
The Toronto Maple Leafs have hired former Detroit Red Wings head coach Derek Lalonde as an assistant on Craig Berube's staff, the NHL team announced Friday. The 52-year-old from Brasher Falls, N.Y., had a 89-86-23 record leading the Red Wings bench from the start of the 2022-23 season until he was fired midway through the 2024-25 campaign. He previously spent four seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant coach, winning back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and 2021. Lalonde was an assistant coach with the United States at the 2023 and 2024 world championships. Before joining the NHL, he held head-coaching roles with the American Hockey League's Iowa Wild, the ECHL's Toledo Walleye and the United States Hockey League's Green Bay Gamblers. Mike Van Ryn and Marc Savard are Toronto's other assistants. Associate coach Lane Lambert left the Maple Leafs a week ago to take over as Seattle's head coach.
National Post
3 days ago
- Sport
- National Post
Toronto Maple Leafs hire ex-Red Wings boss Derek Lalonde as assistant coach
The Maple Leafs have added another voice of experience behind the bench. Article content The team announced on Friday afternoon that it has hired Derek Lalonde as an assistant coach. Article content Article content The 52-year-old Lalonde joins Craig Berube's staff after he was head coach of the Detroit Red Wings for three seasons, from 2022-24 until he was fired this past December. Article content Lalonde, a native of Brasher Falls, N.Y., previously was an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning and was part of the staff that guided the Lightning to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021. Article content Article content Lalonde also has been a guest analyst on Sportsnet's playoff hockey coverage in the past few years. Article content Article content The job on the Leafs coaching staff became available last week when the Seattle Kraken hired Lane Lambert, who was an associate coach in Toronto, as its head coach. Article content Lalonde joins a Leafs staff that includes Berube, assistants Mike Van Ryn and Marc Savard, and goaltending coach Curtis Sanford. Article content During his tenure in Detroit, Lalonde coached 198 games with a record of 89-86-23 as the team went through a rebuilding phase. The Red Wings had a record of 13-17-4 at the time of his dismissal this past season. Article content
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Canton Central superintendent candidates make pitches
Mar. 20—CANTON — Nearly 100 people attended presentations from two candidates for Canton Central School Superintendent Thursday evening in the Hugh C. Williams High School Auditorium. BOCES Superintendent Thomas Burns, who has been helping the school board search for a new superintendent, hosted the event. The two candidates, Potsdam High School Principal Kristin Towne and Canton Middle School Principal Joseph McDonough, gave short presentations on their backgrounds and visions. Then, they faced questions from an audience of district residents, faculty and staff. Towne was first on stage. "This is a great turnout," the Star Lake native said as she picked up the microphone and started her slide show presentation. Towne graduated from Clifton-Fine and earned her bachelor's degree in art education at SUNY Potsdam. She holds leadership certificates from St. Lawrence University and a Master of Science Education in instructional technology. Towne has 28 years of experience in education, with the past eight years in leadership roles. Her experience includes 16 years of teaching art at Brasher Falls and serving as high school assistant principal at Salmon River Central School District and PK-12 building principal at Hammond Central School District. She has been at Potsdam for the last four years. She said that Canton Central has a tradition of excellence, a strong reputation and community values that she admires. If she gets the job, she will begin by listening to the school community and the community at large. "It is all about building relationships," she said. Towne was asked about a poor report the school received in 2022 that indicated that hate speech was routine and consequences were inconsistent. "You have to face that head-on," she said. Students must follow a code of conduct, but they should also be educated about the impact of their behavior. "They are kids," she said. "They make mistakes." The community needs to be educated as well, she said. "All students should feel welcome," she said. When Towne was asked what qualities she needed to make and deliver hard decisions, she mentioned being let go after 16 years at Brasher Falls due to a staffing cut. She said a superintendent needs to do what needs to be done, with compassion. After a short break, McDonough made his presentation. McDonough is from Maine but has lived in the Canton community for 20 years, 17 of which were spent at Canton Central. He is the middle school principal at J.M. McKenney Middle School in the Canton Central School District. He has 25 years of experience as an educator and 15 years in leadership positions. He has served as dean of students at Potsdam Central School, dean of students at Canton Central School,St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES regional summer school principal and elementary principal at Canton's F.S. Banford Elementary School He holds a Doctorate in Education from the University of New England, a Certificate of Advanced Study and a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from St. Lawrence University, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and classics from Saint Michael's College in Vermont. McDonough used two symbols in his presentation. The first was an aerial photo of the entire middle school faculty, staff, and students spelling out the word "BEARS" on the school's athletics field. He said everyone is separate on the field but coming together to achieve a goal. He also described the school with a three-legged stool analogy. The stool is only firm when each leg is strong. The three legs, he said, are relationships, systems and leadership. Relationships build trust and morale and give people a voice. Systems provide predictability and consistency; leadership needs to be steady, decisive and transparent. Between faculty, staff and students, "It's a human-heavy industry," he said. McDonough faced many of the same questions as Towne. He answered each by reaching back to his three-legged stool analogy. He said hate language is a problem that has not been solved at Canton, but it is a problem that exists beyond the school's walls. By building trust and giving people voices, they can make some changes. Hard decisions are not hard if you are predictable and have systems people know and understand. he said. "If you don't remember everything I said," McDonough said, harkening back to the aerial photo of the middle school spelling out Bears on the soccer field, "remember I said, 'together.'"
