{"id":483479,"date":"2024-05-25T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483479"},"modified":"2024-05-25T04:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T08:09:25","slug":"winnipeg-names-arniel-the-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/winnipeg-names-arniel-the-next-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg names Arniel as the next head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Arniel came to the Jets in 2022 to be part of the staff of new manager Rick Bowness.<\/p>\n<p>Two seasons later, Scott is replacing his ex-boss as Winnipeg\u2019s next head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL franchise revealed that Arniel is being promoted from associate to head coach. The move comes almost 21 days after Bowness shared that he is retiring. Winnipeg announced that the new boss and the GM Kevin Cheveldayoff will meet with reports at the beginning of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Scott helped Bowness lead the organization to a 98-57-9 record and 2 postseason appearances over 2 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets had a phenomenal regular campaign in 2023-24. Bowness was among the finalists for the NHL&#8217;s Coach of the Year trophy after Winnipeg had a 52-24-6 record that led them to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in the Central Division and the West Conference.<\/p>\n<p>But the team failed in the playoffs as for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight year the Jets were eliminated in 5 matches in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m very, very happy for Scott. He has been a huge help for me over the last couple of years and he is more than prepared for this job. He is the perfect guy to take over\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rick Bowness asked about Scott Arniel taking his spot as bench boss of the Jets. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LH9CO52Ey2\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/LH9CO52Ey2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Minuk (@ICdave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICdave\/status\/1794199170980712636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Arniel came to the Jets in 2022 to be part of the staff of new manager Rick Bowness. Two seasons later, Scott [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17218],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[22948,17846,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Jets announced its next manager.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483482,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483479\/revisions\/483482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483479"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483479"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}