NHL Next Coach Fired Odds: Who Will Be Next?

By Jim Tomlin Dec 4th, 2025 12:01 PM EST

Only six NHL coaches have been in their current jobs for at least four seasons. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)

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The NHL season has had unusual coaching stability so far. In eight of the past 10 seasons, at least one team made a change during the first two months of the season.

We’re about two months into the 2025-26 season for NHL betting and no teams have sent their head coach packing – yet.

Bookies.com has assembled this list of candidates to be the next coach fired, becoming the first leader behind the bench this season to be relieved of their duties.

NHL Next Coach Fired Odds

These odds are exclusive to Bookies.com and are not available at legal, regulated sports betting apps.

NHL Next Coach Fired Top Candidates

The favorite on our board is Andrew Brunette of the Nashville Predators. They were perhaps the most disappointing in the league last season, and they aren’t any better in 2025-26.

Brunette is in his third season leading Nashville, but the team has regressed since he led it to a 99-point season and a playoff berth in 2023-24.

Nashville invested heavily during the summer of 2024, acquiring Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Marchessault and Brady Skjei – plus signing goaltender Juuse Saros to an eight-year contract extension – in hopes of contending for their first Stanley Cup. Going into the season, BetMGM Sportsbook had Nashville at +1600 odds to win the Cup, tied for ninth on the operator’s board.

Instead, the Predators drooped to a 30-44-8 finish (68 points), a distant 28 points out of a playoff spot.

This season, Nashville has stumbled to a 9-13-4 record after 26 games, already seven points out of a playoff spot going into Thursday’s games. There’s no buzz around the team now – their one major offseason move was acquiring defenseman Nic Hague from the Vegas Golden Knights – and their current NHL odds to win the title are between +40000 and +100000, depending on the operator.

The only team off to a poorer start is the Calgary Flames. Like Nashville, Calgary entered Thursday with a league-worst 22 points, but the Flames have played two more games (28, compared to 26 for the Preds).

Calgary made a serious run at a playoff berth last season under coach Ryan Huska, missing out on a tiebreaker with the St. Louis Blues after both teams complied 96 points. The Flames had 27 regulation losses last season but already have more than half that many (15) in 2025-26, putting Huska on the hot seat and making him a logical candidate to be the first NHL coach fired this season.

At US sports betting sites, Calgary’s current Stanley Cup odds range between +25000 and +50000.

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Historic Trends For NHL Coaching Changes

Every team has played at least 24 games this season and most have played 27 or 28. It’s unusual for there to be no coaching movement this deep into a season.

In 2024-25, the Boston Bruins fired Jim Montgomery on Nov. 19, just 20 games into the season. But he waited just five days for his next assignment because the St. Louis Blues jettisoned Drew Bannister on Nov. 24 and hired Montgomery.

In the 2018-19 season, four coaches were fired in November. In 2015-16, the Columbus Blue Jackets dismissed Todd Richards after an 0-7 start.

There was one outlier season. In 2017-18, no coaches were fired during the season. That was the first firing-free full season in the NHL since 1966-67.

We don’t foresee that happening again, not by a longshot. In any case, stick with Bookies.com for the best sports betting promos around.

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