On a scale of local coaching hires, this feels like Brian Schottenheimer times 10. At least Jerry hasn’t recycled Dave Campo. Not yet, anyway. Schotty is a bit of an unknown quantity, but he represents a reasonable shot at a nice surprise. Gulutzan, meanwhile, seems like a guy neither the Stars nor the NHL owes any favors.

The NHL’s coaching carousel spun faster than ever this off-season, with a whopping eight teams changing their bench boss. And on Sunday, the Dallas Stars became likely to be the ninth as it was reported that they gave an offer to former Calgary Flames coach Glen Gulutzan to replace longtime coach Peter DeBoer and take the reins of the Stars for the second time in Gulutzan’s coaching career.