Carbery, who got his start with the Stingrays of the ECHL, is tasked with walking a tightrope in Washington, which opens its season Friday against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Spencer Carbery, 41, is a first-year NHL coach. His Washington Capitals open their season Friday against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Without warning, the Fresno Falcons — Carbery’s team in the ECHL, a minor league two tiers below the NHL — had decided to fold, effective immediately. Carbery and his teammates were in the locker room preparing for a game when they learned the news from their coach, Matt Thomas.
“I think we got in on a Tuesday night,” Carbery said. “I went on the ice with Bedsy and his son Kruz, just got a skate because I hadn’t skated in a week. He was like, ‘You’ll play tomorrow.’ And then the rest was history.” After coaching the Stingrays to the Kelly Cup in 2009, Bednar moved on to be an assistant coach in the AHL. Cail MacLean, who had been Bednar’s assistant and is now an assistant coach for the Calgary Flames, was promoted to the head job and coached Carbery for what turned out to be his final season as a player.Carbery wanted to continue his career for at least one more season, but MacLean had a different plan for the veteran forward.
“As an organization, it’s very important for us to give people an opportunity if they work hard and are doing a good job,” said Rob Concannon, the president of the Stingrays. “We like to reward them. We like to give them an opportunity. I think we’ve all been given opportunities in our lives. Probably all of us have been given those opportunities when we weren’t 100 percent ready.
Carbery is somewhat self-conscious about his work habits, sensitive to the knowledge that it could put undue pressure on his staff to match the early-morning hours he tends to keep — or make it seem like he wants acclaim for working more than anyone else. He wouldn’t mind, actually, being able to get a little bit more sleep.
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