Kings add women’s hockey pioneer Manon Rhéaume to front-office staff

The Los Angeles Kings have employed former star goaltender Manon Rhéaume to a front-office place, furthering the latest development of ladies touchdown high-profile jobs with NHL groups.

The Kings said in a launch Thursday that Rhéaume will be a part of the workforce as a hockey operations adviser with a give attention to prospect improvement.

She is going to report back to the Kings’ director of participant personnel, Nelson Emerson.

Rhéaume made historical past in 1992 when she grew to become the primary lady to play in an NHL sport, suiting up for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a pre-season contest in opposition to the St. Louis Blues.

She gained a silver medal as a goaltender with Canada on the 1998 Nagano Olympics, the primary to function a girls’s hockey match. She additionally helped Canada win gold on the 1992 and 1994 world girls’s hockey championships.

“I am excited to hitch the Kings and stay up for working with our younger gamers as they undergo their particular person improvement course of,” Rhéaume said in an announcement.

“There are such a lot of components that issue right into a participant’s journey as soon as they be a part of a company, and my focus will probably be on serving to to supply them with the instruments and steering they should ease that transition because the try to achieve their final objective of taking part in within the NHL.”

The NHL has seen a number of girls employed for outstanding positions over the previous month, with Kate Madigan (New Jersey), Hayley Wickenheiser (Toronto) and Meghan Hunter (Chicago) touchdown assistant basic supervisor roles with their golf equipment.

In the meantime, the Seattle Kraken lately named former Canadian nationwide workforce member Jessica Campbell as an assistant coach for his or her American Hockey League affiliate.

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