The Tampa Bay Lightning have hired former Nashville Predators assistant coach Dan Hinote to join their coaching staff, the team announced on Friday.
Hinote was behind the bench in Nashville from 2020-24, helping the Predators advance to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in three of his four seasons there. He spent the 2024-25 campaign as associate coach with the Colorado Eagles, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche. In the Calder Cup Playoffs, Hinote and the Eagles fell to the Abbotsford Canucks in five games of their best-of-five series during the Division Finals.
Hinote is a native of Leesburg, Fla., about 85 miles northwest of Tampa. He began his coaching career with the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2010-11 season, spending four seasons behind the bench in Columbus before moving into a professional scouting role with the club.
As a player, Hinote skated in 503 regular season NHL games with the Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues, recording 38 goals and 90 points. He also appeared in 72 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, during which he recorded six goals and 15 points. Hinote won the Stanley Cup with Colorado in 2001.
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