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Dan Gartland

Jets Coach Rick Bowness Announces His Retirement After Nearly Four Decades Behind the Bench

One of the longest-serving coaches in NHL history is calling it a career after nearly 40 years behind the bench.

Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bowness announced Monday that he is retiring after 38 years as an NHL coach.

Bowness, 69, played in the NHL for parts of six seasons and got his start coaching as a player-coach with the Sherbrooke Jets, Winnipeg’s AHL affiliate at the time, in 1982. After retiring as a player in ’84, he joined the Jets’ NHL coaching staff as an assistant.

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