Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness will take a depart of absence from the staff after his spouse Judy suffered a seizure on Sunday.
Judy is within the hospital present process additional testing and Bowness can be absent from the Jets for the close to future to be along with his spouse.
Affiliate coach Scott Arniel would be the interim coach for the foreseeable future.
“Our ideas and prayers exit to Judy and Rick,” Arniel stated Monday.
“Very severe and hard time for them proper now. We’re simply ready everyday with this and see how she progresses and see how Rick’s doing.
“Everyone is definitely feeling it. It’s household right here. It’s a part of what we discuss the entire time. It actually hits everybody laborious.”
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Winnipeg host the St. Louis Blues at Canada Life Centre on Tuesday, heading in with a 2-3-0 document following their 3-2 additional time victory towards the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.
“It’s scary, clearly,” Jets ahead Mark Scheifele stated.
“All we will do is hope and pray for them (till) clearly they determine it out and get her wholesome once more. That’s all we will do is pray for them and their household and want them one of the best.
“Simply superb individuals. At first they’re superb human beings, and that at all times comes first. Clearly, it’s a hockey recreation, however they’re superb individuals, superb human beings, and all you are able to do is preserve praying for them. However they’re two superb individuals.”
Bowness is within the midst of his second season with the Jets following 4 years with the Dallas Stars. He boasts a 48-36-3 document in Winnipeg.
At 68-years-old, Bowness has coached over 700 NHL video games in 14 seasons within the league. He initially began out as an assistant with the Jets within the Nineteen Eighties.
He’s spent extra video games behind an NHL bench as a coach or assistant than anybody in league historical past and everyone seems to be praying for his spouse’s good well being.
