Report: Stars offer Oilers assistant Gulutzan head coaching job
The Dallas Stars offered Edmonton Oilers assistant Glen Gulutzan the team's head coaching job, TSN's Darren Dreger reports.
The Stars and Gulutzan are in contract negotiations, adds Dreger.
If hired, Gulutzan would return to Dallas after working as an assistant on the Oilers' staff for seven years. He previously served as the Stars' head coach from 2011-13, with the team going 64-57-9 and failing to make the playoffs in his two seasons. Lindy Ruff replaced Gulutzan on the bench.
After being let go by Dallas, Gulutzan joined the Vancouver Canucks as an assistant coach in 2013. The Calgary Flames hired him as their head coach in 2016 but fired the Manitoba native following two campaigns.
Gulutzan has made the playoffs once in four seasons as an NHL bench boss, suffering a first-round sweep with the Flames in 2017.
Dallas fired Pete DeBoer after the Stars lost in the conference finals for the third straight season. General manager Jim Nill said DeBoer's comments about goaltender Jake Oettinger were a "component" in the decision.
The Oilers eliminated the Stars from the playoffs in back-to-back years.