REPORT: Patrick Roy Turned Down Multiple NHL Coaching Jobs This Offseason

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Tyler Ball
January 10, 2024 (7:43 PM)

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This season is the first in a very long time that Patrick Roy will not be coaching at any level of hockey. Many expected him to have NHL offers this summer and when he did not sign media and fans were confused. A new report has indicated that Roy decided to turn down multiple offers from NHL teams.

Roy Steps Down From Head Coaching Role In The QMJHL

This summer after winning a Memorial Cup in the CHL Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy stepped down as head coach and GM of the Quebec Remparts.

Patrick Roy has stepped down as head coach of Quebec Remparts

Read into that how you will.

With his success in junior hockey and his experience coaching in the NHL with the Colorado Avalanche, many assumed he was pursuing a return to the NHL. However, coaching openings came and went without Roy filling any of them. This left him at home for the 2023-24 season. According to a new report from one source, this was Roy's choice.

Roy Turns Down Multiple Opportunities To Return To The NHL

Today on the Dupont Show host and announcer for the Quebec Remparts Ray Cloutier dropped a bombshell about the coaching prospects for Patrick Roy. According to Cloutier Roy was offered multiple head coaching positions but turned them down for a particular reason.

"It is much more difficult to travel to the West than to the East," he also explained. In Denver, there was time difference very, very often. [...] he had already told me this and I think it's one of the reasons [which explains] why he is less interested. When we get older, these little details become important in your eyes, in your decisions, I think."

Roy reportedly did not want to travel from the West Coast out East. The teams offering Roy were apparently in the Western Conference where the travel is more rigorous.

With a year off to contemplate his options, Patrick Roy may return to the NHL. It would take the perfect fit though it sounds like. As more information is released about the future of Roy and his coaching career we will keep things updated.

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