Bisons looking for a new coach

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The CFR Chemicals Bisons hockey club is once again searching for a new head coach, shortly after Adam Redmond, who recently filled the position, resigned to take an associate head-coaching job with the Calgary Canucks junior team.
The team received the unexpected news of Redmond’s decision earlier last week and soon after began looking for a replacement.
Bisons General Manager, Wayne Hansen, said life and business will go on as usual and there are many candidates still available for the position.
“We’ll go back to our list and see what’s in there for a fit,” said Hansen. “If there’s nothing in there, then we’ll explore numerous other options. We have many resources and many ideas as to what we’re going to do and over the course of the next week we’ll deal with that.”
The organization will consider qualified candidates in order to find the best coach for the job.
“If there is nobody on that list we’re comfortable with, then we’ll go to Plan B,” said Hansen.
Plan B will include talking to coaches in the industry and seeing if any that did not apply before would be interested now.
Also if the successful candidate has a teaching background, there will be a position available through the Bisons connection with the school.
“Being connected with the school, that opens up a lot of doors,” said Hansen. “We’ll go back to that well and we’ll see what’s in there.”
He described Redmond’s resignation as disappointing, but the organization will move on and expect to have a replacement hired in early August.
Redmond would like to thank the Bisons organization for the opportunity, but felt he could not pass up the job that presented itself with the Canucks.
“This was the hardest decision of my life and I knew I would be letting down so many great people,” said Redmond. “It went against so many of my principles, loyalty, sacrifice and commitment. In the end what it came down to was the opportunity to move to the next level.”