The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”
The reshaping of the Kraken roster and its management behind the bench continued Wednesday with the announcement of Coachella Valley Firebirds assistant coach Jessica Campbell and NHL-tested assistant Bob Woods becoming a member of the workers of recent head coach, Dan Bylsma. Assistant coach Dave Lowry and goaltending coach Steve Briere, each employed in 2022, will return of their roles.
“I had conversations with a number of coaches and completely different coaches,” stated Dan Bylsma Tuesday evening. “That led to Bob and Jessica.”
Employed as Kraken head coach throughout American Hockey League Coachella Valley’s deep playoff run to a second straight Western Convention last, Bylsma’s ensuing seek for his two latest members of the teaching workers stretched far and shut. He selected coaches with whom he’s each acquainted and impressed.
Campbell got here on board with the Firebirds in the course of the 2022-23 inaugural season to be a significant a part of two straight journeys to the AHL’s Calder Cup Ultimate as the primary lady to be an assistant coach within the AHL. When the Kraken play their season opener at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on Oct. 8 towards St. Louis, Campbell will break historic floor as the primary full-time feminine assistant coach behind the bench within the NHL.
Woods, 56, has served as an assistant within the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Geese and, most just lately, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the teaching ranks as a player-assistant within the ECHL in 1997 and gained the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears. He performed 13 seasons within the ECHL and AHL.
“I coached with Bob in Buffalo [Sabres, 2016-17, when Bylsma was head coach],” stated Bylsma. “I acquired a great familiarity with how Bob labored with our defensemen and him with the ability to relate to several types of gamers. Bob has demonstrated his skills over the course of his NHL teaching profession, having labored in Washington with the likes of [all-star] John Carlson, then Cam Fowler, Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm as youthful D-men in Anaheim, together with establishing nice relationships in Minnesota with [Ryan] Suter, [Jonas] Brodin and [captain Jared] Spurgeon.”
Campbell, 32, caught the eye of professional hockey teaching circles as an assistant coach for Germany on the 2022 IIHF Males’s World Championship whereas changing into the primary lady on the teaching workers of a males’s nationwide workforce on the esteemed match. She spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant and expertise coach for the Nurnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. Her work in Europe and as a skating and expertise guru got here up ceaselessly when Bylsma was calling contacts to fill out his first Firebirds teaching workers.
Campbell was already identified amongst NHL gamers as a go-to coach for offseason energy skating and expertise exercises when the pandemic slowed her rising expertise coach enterprise primarily based at a rink in Kelowna, BC. When the NHL introduced the 2020 bubble return to play, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Luke Schenn [now with Nashville] referred to as the previous NCAA Cornell captain and Group Canada ahead for assist getting again in skating form. Phrase unfold and Campbell was designing and operating drills for some 20 NHLers, together with New York Islanders and former WHL Seattle Thunderbirds star Matt Barzal and former Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook.
“Jessica and I spent the final two years teaching in Coachella Valley,” stated Bylsma. “I’m assured of what she will be able to do for our workers and convey to the gamers. I watched her construct sturdy relationships with prospects corresponding to Tye Kartye, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans. She has the power to narrate to gamers about their video games and what they create 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’s why she is such an interesting candidate and why she’s becoming a member of our workers.”
Bylsma says familiarity together with his two new assistant’s teaching types will likely be a plus: “It’s necessary to me that Bob is aware of me. Is aware of what to anticipate from me. Bob is aware of what he will get from me as a head coach. And he is enthusiastic about that. I’d say the identical about Jessica. That continuity is actually necessary to me.”
To not be missed or underrated on the Kraken teaching workers is Dave Lowry returning as each coach of an elite group of penalty killers but additionally as a transparent motivator of gamers. Byslma was enthused after his first speak with the previous NHL participant, head coach and assistant who, like Woods, additionally coached juniors within the Western Hockey League as a part of his teaching journey.
“In my conversations with Dave, it was very evident he is established sturdy relationships with the gamers during the last two seasons. As a coach and PK coach, he’s tremendous beneficial to me coming in as a brand new individual to have a data of these relationships with the blokes. Dave was actually key in constructing good relationships with the gamers and determining how they work, determining what makes them tick.”
Together with the penalty-kill duties, Lowry will likely be a part of technique and deployment of the forwards. Campbell, together with working with the forwards, will assist fellow Saskatchewan native Woods run the ability play whereas Woods will key on working with defensemen.
Bylsma is a believer in empowering his assistant coaches: “All of us do our teaching in our avenues and in our personal lanes, then we additionally do it collectively. I’ve acquired full confidence in what Dave, Jess and Bob will convey to the gamers.”