{"id":71160,"date":"2025-07-17T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71160\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:33:09","slug":"former-rangers-coach-gerard-gallant-headed-to-khl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71160\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rangers coach Gerard Gallant headed to KHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant is headed overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gallant is set to coach in the KHL, according to The Athletic\u2019s Pierre LeBrun, though it was not revealed which team in the Russian pro league he\u2019ll be joining.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old spent two years with the Blueshirts, leading the Rangers to a 52-24-6 mark in his first season en route to a surprising upset over the Hurricanes in the conference semifinals in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.20329025;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36565446\" width=\"710\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-madison-square-garden-training-10545475.jpg\" alt=\"Gerard Gallant, New York Rangers head coach, at a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-36565446\"  \/>Gallant at a press conference on May 3, 2023.  Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>In his second season at the helm, Gallant\u2019s squad went 47-22-13 for 107 points, but flamed out against the Devils in a seven-game, first-round series <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/06\/rangers-fire-gerard-gallant-after-disappointing-end-to-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that hastened his exit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t been able to land a head-coaching gig stateside since.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers haven\u2019t exactly found their rock in the following seasons, moving on from Peter Laviolette this past offseason after his two seasons on Broadway.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>They hope longtime Penguins coach Mike Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/15\/sports\/mike-sullivan-brings-leadership-winning-to-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be the answer<\/a> as he prepares for his first go-round with the team.<\/p>\n<p>In parts of 11 NHL seasons, Gallant has put together a 369-262-4-70 mark, spending time behind the benches with the Blue Jackets, Panthers and Golden Knights before coming to New York.<\/p>\n<p>He was famously fired by Florida in 2016 after an 11-10-1 start which saw him getting into a cab outside PNC Arena in Raleigh following a loss to the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36565473\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/new-york-rangers-head-coach-2400292.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant with players.\" class=\"wp-image-36565473\"  \/>Gallant in the Rangers bench during a game against the Coyotes.   Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Gallant is not the first former Rangers head coach to move to the KHL: Mike Keenan, coach of the 1994 Stanley Cup-winning team, won the KHL championship with Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2014. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant is headed overseas.\u00a0 Gallant is set to coach in the KHL, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10779,44099,1302,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-coaches","9":"tag-gerard-gallant","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114871193042977323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}