The unprecedented waltz of coaches in the QMJHL is now over. The last team yet to have a driver for the 2023-2024 season finally chose Jim Midgley.
It will be a return to Halifax for Midgley, who spent seven seasons with the Mooseheads from 2011 to 2018 and served as head coach there in the 2017-18 season. For the past two seasons, he has been an assistant coach with the New York Rangers.
He succeeds Sylvain Favreau, who resigned on June 26 before accepting the mandate to direct the Voltigeurs de Drummondville.
Now that the Mooseheads have found their man, nine teams will start the 2023-2024 QMJHL season with a new head coach on the bench. The remaining eight are:
- the Drummondville Voltigeurs (Sylvain Favreau);
- the Quebec Remparts (Éric Veilleux);
- the Rimouski Oceanic (Joel Perrault);
- the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (Mathieu Turcotte);
- the Cape Breton Eagles (Louis Robitaille);
- the Sherbrooke Phoenix (Gilles Bouchard);
- the Olympic Games at Gatineau (Benoit Desrosiers);
- the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (Martin Dagenais).