June 02--The AHL's Chicago Wolves will have a new coaching staff for the 2016-17 season after the team announced Thursday that it and head coach John Anderson agreed to part ways.
During two stints with the organization, Anderson served as the franchise's head coach for 14 of its 22 seasons. Under his tenure, the Wolves won four championships -- the 1998 and 2000 Turner Cups in the IHL and the 2002 and 2008 Calder Cups in the AHL.
"The Wolves organization will forever be indebted to John for all of the championships and wins," Wolves chairman Don Levin said in a statement. "Right from his first year with the team, when we won our first championship, he set high standards and expectations for our players and his personality and coaching style made hockey fun for our fans. We will always consider him part of the Wolves family."
The 59-year-old Anderson, who played 12 seasons in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers, was the Wolves' coach from 1997-2008 before leaving to become head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL. He was fired after two seasons and became an assistant for the Phoenix Coyotes before returning to the Wolves in 2013.
The team also announced that assistant coaches Mark Hardy and Brad Tapper would not return.
The Wolves have been the AHL affiliate of the St. Louis Blues.
