It was fitting that on a day when the ice was being removed from Canada Life Centre for the season, Rick Bowness removed himself from the game for good.
After leading the Winnipeg Jets to one of the most successful regular seasons in franchise history, head coach Rick Bowness is hanging up the skates. Bowness, 69, announced his retirement Monday after coaching 38 seasons in the NHL — days after he was selected as a finalist for this year’s Jack Adams Award, honouring the league’s top coach.
After a return to Winnipeg and after two years as the Jets head coach in their new era, the 69-year-old officially retired from hockey on Monday, citing what he called “life changing moments.” Those moments included health issues: those of his own with COVID and those of his wife, Judy, who suffering a seizure last fall.
As an assistant, associate and head coach, Bowness evolved his skills through years, experiencing the scrappy ’70s, the high scoring ’80s, the dead-puck ’90s, and the high tempo 2000s. Through it all, his best qualities like honesty, accountability and keen communication never wavered as a lifer in the game. As he said himself, “hockey is my life; it’s all I know.
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