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Dazzle Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Jeff Ulmer was previously the Arizona Coyotes' skills coach, according to Wiki. Interesting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stierlitz Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Gary Agnew has been with Utica Comets as an associate coach for four seasons. He was an assistant coach in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins (2014-16), St. Louis Blues (2012-14) and Columbus Blue Jackets (2006-10), and also had a brief stint as interim head coach of the Blue Jackets in 2006-07. A native of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Agnew was the head coach of Columbus’s AHL affiliate in Syracuse for six seasons from 2000 to 2006, winning 220 games and capturing a division title in 2002. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Ulmer joins the Canucks organization from the Arizona Coyotes, where he served two seasons as coordinator of skill development and assistant director of special projects. He played 19 seasons of professional hockey, including 258 games in the AHL with the Hartford Wolf Pack (2000-01), Grand Rapids Griffins (2001-02), Binghamton Senators (2002-03) and Hershey Bears (2004-05). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Sanford has been with Utica Comets for four seasons, assisting with the development of goaltending prospects both at the AHL and junior levels. Sanford spent most of his 15-year pro career in the AHL, appearing in 253 games with the Rochester Americans, Worcester IceCats, Peoria Rivermen, Manitoba Moose and Hamilton Bulldogs. He was a Second Team AHL All-Star in 2010-11 and shared the Harry (Hap) Holmes Memorial Award with Cedrick Desjardins in 2009-10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Beckenstein joins the Abbotsford Canucks from the AHL’s Laval Rocket, where he spent the past four seasons as a hockey operations assistant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Also from Utica Comets: Roman Kaszczij will continue in his role as head athletic trainer and Nathan Williams as head strength and conditioning coach. “We’re excited to have finalized the majority of our coaching and training staff decisions that will help provide the foundation for a strong, competitive team,” said Abby Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson. “We were able to retain staff that have been instrumental in the development of our players in recent years while also bringing in some new perspectives to lead us to success this season.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 42 minutes ago, Stierlitz said: Also from Utica Comets: Roman Kaszczij will continue in his role as head athletic trainer and Nathan Williams as head strength and conditioning coach. “We’re excited to have finalized the majority of our coaching and training staff decisions that will help provide the foundation for a strong, competitive team,” said Abby Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson. “We were able to retain staff that have been instrumental in the development of our players in recent years while also bringing in some new perspectives to lead us to success this season.” nice to see us get some staff from other teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said: nice to see us get some staff from other teams. Well, the former Utica Comets coach staff did not actually have place to go. New Jersey Devils moved their AHL club "Binghamton Devils" to Utica this summer with entire coaching staff so Trent Cull and his crew had the only option to continue working for the Canucks organization... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnAntoski Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Seems like a solid crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Excellent news: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Along with new staff and etc, Canucks will now need a new ECHL affiliate: Their deal expired this past offseason. Could still reup with Kalamazoo, but with the shift in geographical location of their AHL franchise, makes a lot more sense too to have a closer ECHL team and most NHL teams don't share ECHL affiliates very often, however, Vancouver has done this with Columbus a few times with Kalamazoo. Currently 2 ECHL affiliates are looking for an NHL affiliate 1) Allen Americans and 2) Atlanta Gladiators - Geographically neither teams are close. AA is in Texas and AG is in Atlanta. Very far location. The Norfolk Admirals (former AHL affiliates) are independent from an NHL affiliate which is always concerning because independent teams generally have little priority to develop prospects, as was the case when Vancouver affiliated with the Chicago Wolves in the AHL. A lot of the ice time was allocated to AHL veterans, Jordan Schroeder, Zack Kassian, Bill Sweatt, Chris Tanev, Kevin Connauton and Eddie Lack often were left fighting for ice time with vets like Darren Haydar, Brett Sterling, Kevin MIller, and Brad Hunt. Considering that it may even be a struggle to fill the Abbotsford team with players and prospects, may just even see the Canucks to forego an ECHL affiliate. 7 Teams last season did not have ECHL affiliates which does make things difficult when the AHL club goes through mass NHL recalls or injuries. AHL GM's will have to find ATO's that are not part of other ECHL affiliates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 1:21 - Dhaliwal suggests that the Canucks have signed a WHL free agent Center to play in Abbotsford. However, cannot tell whether its with the parent club Vancouver the deal has been signed or whether this is an AHL deal with Abbotsford. Early suspicions Dhaliwal had mentioned a month ago was Brett Kemp from the Edmonton Oil Kings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stierlitz Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Abby Canucks are participating in home opener for Bakersfield Condors which is farm club of Edmonton Oilers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnAntoski Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 How On 7/21/2021 at 10:17 AM, CRAZY_4_NAZZY said: Along with new staff and etc, Canucks will now need a new ECHL affiliate: Their deal expired this past offseason. Could still reup with Kalamazoo, but with the shift in geographical location of their AHL franchise, makes a lot more sense too to have a closer ECHL team and most NHL teams don't share ECHL affiliates very often, however, Vancouver has done this with Columbus a few times with Kalamazoo. Currently 2 ECHL affiliates are looking for an NHL affiliate 1) Allen Americans and 2) Atlanta Gladiators - Geographically neither teams are close. AA is in Texas and AG is in Atlanta. Very far location. The Norfolk Admirals (former AHL affiliates) are independent from an NHL affiliate which is always concerning because independent teams generally have little priority to develop prospects, as was the case when Vancouver affiliated with the Chicago Wolves in the AHL. A lot of the ice time was allocated to AHL veterans, Jordan Schroeder, Zack Kassian, Bill Sweatt, Chris Tanev, Kevin Connauton and Eddie Lack often were left fighting for ice time with vets like Darren Haydar, Brett Sterling, Kevin MIller, and Brad Hunt. Considering that it may even be a struggle to fill the Abbotsford team with players and prospects, may just even see the Canucks to forego an ECHL affiliate. 7 Teams last season did not have ECHL affiliates which does make things difficult when the AHL club goes through mass NHL recalls or injuries. AHL GM's will have to find ATO's that are not part of other ECHL affiliates. Surrey/Victoria or as far north as Prince Rupert are probably good locations for there ECHL team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 34 minutes ago, ShawnAntoski said: Surrey/Victoria or as far north as Prince Rupert are probably good locations for there ECHL team. Pretty sure the ECHL tried to have a franchise in Victoria Victoria Salmon Kings, and were our affiliates for seven years. However, Victoria never seemed to get on board with the ECHL team, despite the Salmon Kings doing well especially in their later years. In came the Victoria Royals for the WHL, and it was history for the franchise. There have been several Western based ECHL teams such as Victoria, Alaska, Las Vegas, and Ontario (California) but I assume because of the geographical locations, made it difficult for teams to succeed as most of the teams were located in the East. I think for ECHL sake and our sake would be to affiliate with a team located in the central of the US such as the Rapid City Rush (South Dakota), Idaho Steelheads, or Utah Grizzlies, but currently these three are already affiliated with other NHL/AHL teams. Considering that the Abbotsford Canucks are just starting out and the Canucks organization has very few ELC contracts and rookies, they may choose not to have an ECHL affiliate for the year until they have more players and prospects. Although it isn't very advantageous to go without an ECHL affiliate. My hope is that the Canucks much like the Leafs and Oilers do with their ECHL teams have a very easy system that allows them to feed ECHL players into the AHL. Those are the two organizations that have been known to utilize the ECHL to develop prospects, as many other organizations do not. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Correct me if I'm wrong. But the past few years we've only had like what 3 players in the ECHL per season. And it didn't do very well for their development. I think I've seen as many as 5 at one point. But the ECHL doesn't seem to help players get better. They get games, but that's it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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