Colorado Avalanche Coach becomes first coach to ever accomplish amazing achievement
With the Colorado Avalanche becoming the 2022 Stanley Cup Champions on Sunday night, there are a lot of feel good stories and reasons to be happy for individual players as well as the team as a whole, after all, they're the best hockey team on the planet. However, there may be no better story than Avs head coach Jared Bednar.
According to the National Hockey League's coaching association, Bednar is the first coach in NHL history to win the ECHL's Kelly Cup, the AHL's Calder Cup and now the NHL's Stanley Cup.
Bednar started his coaching career in 2002, 6 years later, in the 2008-09 season, he would go on to win the Kelly Cup with the Carolina Stingrays in hIs second year as head coach, then Bednar bounced around the AHL as an assistant and head coach before landing with the Columbus Blue Jackets affiliate, the Springfield Falcons who then re-located to become the Lake Erie Monsters. This is where he would win the Calder Cup in 2015-16, 7 years after leaving the ECHL. Bednar then got the call to the show on August 26, 2016 when he became the head coach of the Avs, taking over prom Patrick Roy. 5 seasons later, he's a Stanley Cup Champion.
Not a bad record for someone who has paid his dues at all levels, and at only 50 years old, Bednar's coaching career is far from over
