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Groulx named coach of Rochester (AHL)

From Steve Gorten of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

Groulx led the Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to three league title the past six years, including this past season when Gatineau was 43-19-6 record.

Panthers’ general manager Jacques Martin described Groulx, no relation to Panthers’ goaltending coach Pierre Groulx, as “very similar” to new Panthers’ coach Peter DeBoer, a former junior hockey coach.

Read the entire article here.

Groulx obviously has professional coaching aspirations because he turned down a chance at coaching the Canadian juniors at the WJHC in the winter to take this position with Rochester.