Goodbye Columbus

When the Vancouver Giants ended the major junior season by winning the Memorial Cup, there was speculation that head coach Don Hay would be leaving. To go where? To join Ken Hitchcock's coaching staff with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Hitchcock and Hay, of course, go back to their days on the coaching staff of the Kamloops Blazers.

Well there is news out of Columbus that Claude Noel has been signed as an assistant coach and that the contracts of assistant coaches Gary Agnew, Gord Murphy and Clint Malarchuk have been extended.

The Don Hay-to-Columbus rumours, then, can be put to rest. At least for now . . .