The Dallas Stars made a coaching change this offseason. The Stars fired Pete DeBoer after a third straight loss in the Western Conference Final. He made headlines after the loss when speaking about goaltender Jake Oettinger, and now has made his first comments since his firing .
“When all the questions at the postgame press conference were about Jake, I should have redirected the topic to reflect that this wasn’t just about him; this was about all of us,” DeBoer said in a sit down with NHL.com's Mike Zeisberger.
“We — and I stress the word ‘we' — did not get the job done.”
The former bench boss regrets how he handled the post-game interview. In Game 5 of the series with the Edmonton Oilers, DeBoer pulled Oettinger from the game. While Oettinger had been struggling, it was what De