Report: Nashville Predators sign coach John Hynes to multi-year extension
The Nashville Predators have locked up head coach John Hynes on a multi-year extension, according to a report from The Athletic’s Adam Vingan.
John Hynes’ expiring contract includes a one-year team option, but I am hearing that the Predators have signed Hynes to a new multi-year contract.
— Adam Vingan (@AdamVingan) May 18, 2022
Hynes, 47, joined the Predators in January 2020 as a midseason hire after they’d fired coach Peter Laviolette. The move was a surprise in the moment as Hynes had been fired from his post as New Jersey Devils head coach roughly a month earlier. But Hynes guided Nashville to a 16-11-1 record over the rest of the 2019-20 season. His 2020-21 Predators squad made the playoffs with a late-season surge, while this season’s team reached the big dance after amassing a 45-30-7 record and 97 points.
Hynes is 92-64-10 since taking over behind Nashville’s bench, good for a .584 points percentage. He has yet to guide his team past the first round of the playoffs, however. Nashville was upset by the Arizona Coyotes in four games during the 2019-20 bubble qualifying round; fell in six games to the favored Carolina Hurricanes in the first round of the 2020-21 playoffs: and got steamrolled by the Colorado Avalanche this season in a 4-0 sweep. Dating back to his four-plus seasons coaching the Devils, Hynes’ teams are just 4-15 in playoff games.