Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) – The Ottawa Senators fired head coach Paul MacLean on Monday, replacing him with assistant Dave Cameron.<\/p>\n
MacLean was in his fourth season with the Senators, who are 11-11-5 this season. Ottawa had lost five straight games before picking up a 4-3 overtime win over Vancouver on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“I think there’s an obligation for a lot of people to perform better, the players included,” Senators general manager Bryan Murray said.<\/p>\n
The Senators failed to reach the playoffs last season for the first time in MacLean’s tenure. He finished with a record of 114-90-35.<\/p>\n
MacLean led Ottawa to the playoffs in each of his first two seasons. The Senators lost a seven-game series to the New York Rangers in the first round of the 2012 playoffs, then beat Montreal in the opening round of the 2013 playoffs before falling to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
MacLean won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s top coach for the lockout- shortened 2013 season after the Senators posted a record of 25-17-6.<\/p>\n
Cameron, 56, has no prior NHL head coaching experience, but he was the head coach and general manager of Mississauga in the Ontario Hockey League for four seasons before joining the Senators.<\/p>\n
MacLean added Cameron to his coaching staff shortly after he was hired in June 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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