Sims has guided his Komets to an IHL regular season championship in record-breaking fashion. The Komets are on top of the league with a record of 53-12-5-2 and 113 points after 72 games, tying the Fort Wayne franchise mark of 53 wins in a season and breaking the old record of 112 points in a season, set four times previously but never before eclipsed by a Fort Wayne team in it's 56-year history.

Sims has also led the Komets to an IHL record 24 consecutive home wins and the Komets are one win shy of matching the Fort Wayne record of 32 home wins in a season with two home games remaining.

Sims returned to Fort Wayne this year for the first time since capturing the IHL Turner Cup Championship as the Komets' head coach in 1992-93. He also won the IHL's Commissioner's Trophy that season for coach of the year.

2007-08 is Sims' 33rd pro hockey career year since his rookie season of 1973-74 as a defenseman for the NHL's Boston Bruins, playing alongside the legendary Bobby Orr. The Toronto, Ontario native also skated stints with Hartford and Los Angeles for a total of 476 NHL games. Sims completed his playing career with the Komets during 1988-89 as a player-assistant coach before accepting the first head coaching role of his career with Fort Wayne in 1989-90.