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The Seattle Kraken on Wednesday employed Jessica Campbell because the NHL’s first full-time feminine assistant coach.
Campbell, 31, was added to new head coach Dan Bylsma’s employees, together with assistant Bob Woods.
Campbell spent the previous two seasons as an assistant on Bylsma’s employees with the Coachella Valley Firebirds within the AHL.
“Jessica and I’ve coached within the Coachella Valley for the previous two years,” Bylsma mentioned. “I’ve confidence in what she will be able to deliver to our employees and what she will be able to supply the gamers. I’ve seen her construct sturdy relationships with prospects like Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans.
“She has the power to narrate to gamers about their play and what they convey to a workforce. She’s proven that over the past two seasons, not solely with Tye Kartye and the others, however with (seasoned leaders) John Hayden and Max McCormick, and others. That is why she’s such a beautiful candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our employees.”
The Firebirds have reached the AHL Calder Cup finals the previous two seasons, however misplaced each occasions to the Hershey Bears in seven video games in 2023 and 6 video games in 2024.
As an assistant coach for Germany in 2022, Campbell was the primary girl on a training employees on the IIHF Males’s World Championship. She was an assistant with Nurnberg in Germany in 2021-22.
The Saskatchewan native performed school hockey at Cornell, profitable gold medals with Canada on the 2010 World Below-18 Championship and the 2014 4 Nations Cup. Campbell performed professionally within the Canadian ladies’s hockey league with the Calgary Inferno earlier than turning into a coach in 2017.
Campbell and Woods, 56, be a part of a employees that additionally consists of assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere.
–Subject Stage Media