Jessica Campbell will become the first woman to work on an NHL bench after the Seattle Kraken hired her as an assistant coach on Wednesday.
Campbell has spent the past two seasons working as an assistant coach for Seattle’s AHL affiliate in Coachella Valley alongside head coach Dan Bylsma, who was hired in late May to take over the head job with the Kraken. There were immediate questions about whether Campbell would be making the move with Bylsma to Seattle.Now, there will be a woman on the bench., the Canadian Women’s Hockey League and Canada’s women’s national team, with whom she won silver at the 2015 world championship.
The 32-year-old native of Rocanville, Saskatchewan, was the first full-time female assistant coach in the AHL when she was hired by Coachella Valley before the start of its first season. She also had a one-game stint as an assistant on the Kraken bench for a preseason game against Calgary last September.But having a woman on the bench as a coach has been an area where the NHL has lagged behind the NBA and NFL.
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