AAA Stars drop head coach days before season opener
Just three days before the start of the Battlefords AAA Stars regular season, the team decided to make a coaching change.
Head Coach Darren Martens was hired in August to replace Jody Reiter, who stepped down after four seasons because of time commitment issues, but on Monday, the team replaced Martens with Jean Fauchon.
Stars chairperson Bruce Yockey said the change was made because of a difference in philosophy.
“The decision is a hard one and you don’t want to cut somebody off before they get a chance, but we just didn’t like the direction things were going,” Yockey said. “We have some philosophical differences on how our team and even our individual players should develop … compared with how Darren was doing things.