WGR550 — Rikard Grönborg ’96 remains a hot name in the Buffalo Sabres’ head coaching search.
The 50-year-old is currently getting ready to coach the Swedish National Team for the 2019 IIHF World Championship starting next Friday in Slovakia. Sweden is looking to win its third consecutive gold medal with Grönborg behind the bench as the team’s head coach. However, once the tournament ends on Sunday, May 26, Grönborg’s contract with the national team expires.
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Boustedt believes that a huge reason for his successes as a coach is partly because of the education he received while attending St. Cloud State University. Grönborg also played his college hockey at St. Cloud State, playing as a defenseman on the Huskies squad.
“Rikard is a well educated person from a North American university, he has a master’s [degree] in [management and leadership], and we want to have our staff well educated,” Boustedt said. “Because we think hockey is such a complicated sport, it’s not, as a coach, screaming at the players and make them a better team. You have to be like a teacher, and he has that background from his academic status.”
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