Evason’s .639 points percentage in Minnesota is the best of the seven coaches in franchise history. On Thursday night, in — of all places — Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Evason’s tenure as Blue Jackets coach will officially begin.
“When coaches go back to play a team after they get fired and they say that it means nothing to them, that makes absolutely no sense,” Evason said during a phone conversation with The Athletic. “Now, I don’t want to win that hockey game any more or any less than I want to win the sixth game of the season. But is there more emotion? Is there more excitement? Is there more passion because you were in that spot and you got let go from there?
“I mean, of course there is.”
Blue Jackets are +215
“When coaches go back to play a team after they get fired and they say that it means nothing to them, that makes absolutely no sense,” Evason said during a phone conversation with The Athletic. “Now, I don’t want to win that hockey game any more or any less than I want to win the sixth game of the season. But is there more emotion? Is there more excitement? Is there more passion because you were in that spot and you got let go from there?
“I mean, of course there is.”
Blue Jackets are +215