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    Columbus Blue Jackets Fill the NHL's Last Coaching Vacancy with Dean Evason

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    Columbus Blue Jackets Fill the NHL's Last Coaching Vacancy with Dean Evason

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    The Columbus Blue Jackets named Dean Evason their newest coach.

    Evason and the team agreed on a multi-year contract just more than one month after the Blue Jackets fired Pascal Vincent.

    The 59-year-old will be back behind an NHL bench after spending parts of five seasons with the Minnesota Wild, finishing his time there with a 147-77-27 record before the team parted with him.

    “Dean Evason brings to coaching what he brought as a player – passion, hard work and tenacity – and I couldn’t be happier that he will serve as the next head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets,” new Blue Jackets GM Don Waddell said in a news release. “He has spent well over two decades in this league as a player, assistant coach and head coach, and I believe that experience, combined with the outstanding person he is, will allow Dean to get the best out of our players and put us in a position to succeed as a team.”

    Evason played 803 games in the NHL between 1983 and 1996, amassing 139 goals, 233 assists, 372 points and 1,002 penalty minutes as a forward.

    With that, every NHL team once again has the head coaching position filled. The Blue Jackets parted with Vincent four days after the Sharks hired Ryan Warsofsky to fill the last vacancy at the time.

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