The Seattle Kraken employed Jessica Campbell because the NHL’s first full-time feminine assistant coach on Wednesday.
Campbell, 31, was added to new head coach Dan Bylsma’s workers together with fellow assistant Bob Woods.
Campbell was an assistant on Bylsma’s workers with the AHL’s Coachella Valley Firebirds for the previous two seasons.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” Bylsma stated. “I am assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and produce to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects reminiscent of Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans.
“She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they carry to a workforce. She’s demonstrated that during the last two seasons, not simply with Tye Kartye and the others, however (veteran leaders) John Hayden and Max McCormick, amongst others. That is why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
The Firebirds reached the AHL’s Calder Cup Remaining in every of the previous two seasons, shedding 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 broke floor as the primary lady on a training workers 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 and received gold medals with Canada on the World U18 Championship in 2010 and the 4 Nations Cup in 2014. Campbell performed professionally within the Canadian Ladies’s Hockey League with the Calgary Inferno earlier than going into teaching in 2017.
Campbell and Woods, 56, be part of a workers that features returning assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere.
–Area Degree Media
