{"id":15956,"date":"2016-11-30T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:54:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:54:59","slug":"tigers-see-resurgence-under-new-coach-perrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/tigers-see-resurgence-under-new-coach-perrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers see resurgence under new coach Perrin"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new face behind the bench of the Aurora Tigers has brought back a sparkle of the Tigers of the past.
\nSince Brian Perrin took over as head coach of the Junior A club, the team has put up a 3-3-2 record, a major improvement over the first half of the Ontario Junior Hockey League season.
\nThe Tigers have had a revolving door of coaches over the past two seasons as they try to rekindle the fire that brought them to the OJHL finals in 2013-14. Mark Joslin lasted just thirteen games behind the bench last season before getting the boot, with owner Jim Thomson calling his team\u2019s play \u201cundisciplined\u201d.
\nThomas Milne then took the reins, having formerly served under James Richmond as the team\u2019s assistant coach. When he stepped down at the end of the season after the Tigers bowed out of the first round of the postseason, Thomson made a bold move to hire Nikita Poliakov, the youngest head coach in the league at 27-years old, having worked with Thomson at his camp for years.
\nBut now Thomson and his staff hope they have finally found their guy, in hiring the veteran coach Perrin when the Tigers remained poised to stay in the OJHL\u2019s basement.
\nPerrin, unlike Poliakov, took the job with plenty of experience in the OJHL, having last worked in the league as the head coach and general manager of the rival Newmarket Hurricanes in the 2014-15 season. He was released from the team over disagreements with the ownership.
\nPerrin first met Thomson when his son, Tigers veteran defenseman James Thomson, was a call-up for the Hurricanes in the 2013-14 season.
\nTaking over a team that had just lost nine straight games, the Tigers have more than doubled their standings points in the eight games that Perrin has been behind the bench, and are now ahead of or tied with four other teams in the OJHL.
\nIt\u2019s a long and challenging task, to bring up to speed a group of youngsters that consists of just two returning players from the previous season. With player cards on short order after using up the majority to try to fix the team early in the season, not much can be done in terms of roster moves going forward.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a young team, that\u2019s growing,\u201d said Perrin. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of potential, and you can tell it\u2019s a team that can be very competitive very soon.\u201d
\nPerrin said he sees major potential in the club\u2019s goaltending, the tandem of Brayden LaChance and Jake Sabourin.
\n\u201cThe goaltending has been the strength from the start,\u201d said Perrin. \u201cOur goaltenders give us the chance to compete every night and that\u2019s all you can ask from them.\u201d
\nWhile the long term goal for the team is to squeak into the postseason, Perrin said his team will have to work hard to get there.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not out of the question.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new face behind the bench of the Aurora Tigers has brought back a sparkle of the Tigers of the past.
\nSince Brian Perrin took over as head coach of the Junior A club, the team has put up a 3-3-2 record, a major improvement over the first half of the Ontario Junior Hockey League season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-12-01-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-49m","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 22:56:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}