TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper opened his end-of-season information convention Wednesday apologizing for making what he known as an inappropriate analogy about placing skirts on goalies.
After the Sport 5 loss that eradicated his staff from the playoffs on Monday night time, Cooper vented about two questionable goaltender interference rulings that contributed to Florida’s 6-1 win. The Lightning had two objectives disallowed when the NHL scenario room deemed a participant interfered with Sergei Bobrovsky every time.
The league’s longest-tenured coach mentioned he was sincerely sorry particularly as a father of two daughters who play sports activities and as a supporter of girls’s hockey.
“It is a kind of minutes for those who might simply attain again and seize the phrases again, I’d’ve,” Cooper mentioned. “Fairly frankly, it was incorrect and I’ve obtained to go and clarify myself to my ladies. … I sincerely apologize to all I offended. It is pained me greater than the precise collection loss itself.”
Tampa Bay has made the playoffs in 10 of his 11 seasons on the job and gained the Stanley Cup again to again in 2020 and ’21.
