A New Boss in Storm City

It's been a trying season for the Guelph Storm, as they will have failed to crack double digits in the points standings by the time they play their first game after Christmas break, though they did manage to win today and snap a 15-game winless streak.  Today, in addition to the win, the Storm announced that Jarrod Skalde will take over as head coach starting with the December 29 game against Erie.  Skalde takes over for Bill Stewart, who resigned from the post after just three months on the job.

Skalde comes with a resume that includes 88 games in the NHL and many more games in the AHL, and he also comes with a Turner Cup won in 2001 with Orlando as a player and head coaching experience from his time with Norfolk of the AHL and Cincinnati of the ECHL.  He enters the Guelph job with the task of getting Guelph to respectability for the rest of this season and beyond, and given that the Storm are in rebuilding mode, it will be a study in just how patient Skalde will be with a team that will make mistakes this season and most likely, the next.