Historical past was made within the first sport of the 2024-25 NHL season as Jessica Campbell was launched as an assistant coach of the Seattle Kraken. It’s the primary time a girl has been a coach within the league, and followers erupted in large applause upon her introduction.
Campbell is without doubt one of the quickest rising coaches in hockey, and a reputation to observe for the longer term. At age 32 she already has a powerful resume to her title as each a non-public skating coach, who then turned an assistant for the Coachella Valley Firebirds, Seattle’s AHL affiliate. There she labored beneath present Kraken head coach Dan Bylsma, who introduced Campbell with him to the Kraken when he was promoted to the highest job earlier this yr.
A former participant herself, Campbell’s position on the Kraken shatters the glass ceiling for extra girls to enter teaching positions in males’s professional hockey. With followers raucously supporting the transfer it’s an unimaginable approach for historical past to be made.
