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Head Coach

What To Know: The Kraken’s second head coach has been part of the Kraken organization since its inaugural season, joining as assistant coach of AHL Charlotte when Seattle and Florida shared a split squad. When the Coachella Valley Firebirds started AHL play in 2022-23, Bylsma, impressing Francis as an evaluator and relationship-builder, was the natural choice to become a head coach. Led CVF to the Western Conference championship and within one Game 7 overtime goal of winning the AHL’s Calder Cup. In season two, Bylsma continued rousing success with second lofty regular season winning percentage of exactly .715. Debuted as NHL head coach midseason in 2009, leading Pittsburgh to win that spring’s Stanley Cup against defending champ Detroit. Bylsma’s Pittsburgh teams made the playoffs in each of his six seasons.

Fun Facts: Fastest NHL head coach to reach 200 regular season wins. Played 429 NHL games for LA and Anaheim (nearly 50-50 with 220 for Kings and 209 for Ducks), one of 34 NHLers to play for both southern California teams.

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What To Know: In his second season with Seattle, he was widely praised for his candor, humor and deep experience as an NHL player/coach. Transformed Kraken’s penalty-kill performance year-over-year. Lowry was interim head coach for the Winnipeg Jets in 2021-22, taking over for Paul Maurice in mid-December.  

After a long NHL playing career (1,084 regular season games, 111 playoff appearances), he started his coaching career with Western Hockey League Calgary Hitmen as an assistant coach in 2005-06. Spliced NHL assistant jobs with Calgary (three seasons, 2009-12), Los Angeles (two seasons, 2017-19) and Winnipeg (two seasons, 2020-22) with seven WHL head coaching seasons in Calgary, Victoria and Brandon, posting 61.2 WHL win percentage. 
 
Fun Facts: Lowry shares a common event with many Kraken players. Selected by Florida in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft. Florida was 33-34-17 in its inaugural season, but the highlight was the Panthers making a run to the 1996 Stanley Cup Final. Lowry led Florida with ten goals and seven assists during the playoffs, earning a local nickname as “Mr. Playoff.” 
 
His son, Adam, an NHLer of 600-plus regular season games and another 44 in postseason play, was recently named Winnipeg captain.

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What To Know: Enters her first year with the Kraken as an assistant coach after spending two seasons on Dan Bylsma’s coaching staff in Coachella Valley. Under Campbell’s tutelage, the Firebirds led the AHL with 252 goals in 2023-24 and reached the Calder Cup Finals in consecutive seasons. Prior to her tenure with Coachella Valley, Campbell worked as an assistant coach and skills coach for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the DEL, the top men’s professional league in Germany, during the 2021-22 season. On an international level, Campbell served as an assistant coach for Team Germany at the 2022 IIHF World Championship.

Fun Facts: Is the first full-time female assistant coach in NHL history to work behind the bench during the regular season. Played four seasons (2010-11 to 2013-14) of collegiate hockey at Cornell University, captaining the team her senior year before making her professional debut for the Calgary Inferno. Represented Canada in international competition in several tournaments including the IIHF U18 World Junior Championships in 2009 and 2010 and the IIHF World Championship in 2015.

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What To Know: Woods, 56,  has served as an assistant in the league over 11 seasons, three with the Washington Capitals, two with the division rival Anaheim Ducks and, most recently, seven with the Minnesota Wild. He joined the coaching ranks as a player-assistant in the ECHL in 1997 and won the 2009 Calder Cup as head coach of the AHL Hershey Bears (Bylsma, who started the season at AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, famously was hired by Pittsburgh in February 2009 and lead the Penguins to win a Stanley Cup that spring).  He played 13 seasons in the ECHL and AHL.

Goaltending

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About Tim:
Ohashi’s career began with Washington Capitals' coaching staff in 2014 where he served as an intern. Then-head coach Barry Trotz created and offered a full-time video analyst role for the 2015-16 season. Ohashi would go on to be part of the 2018 coaching staff that won the Stanley Cup. Ohashi moved to the Kraken upon its inception and has served as an invaluable resource for game preparation and in-game reviews.

A Washington DC native, Ohashi played club hockey at Bates College in Lewiston, ME.

Fun facts:
A major back issue caused him to return home to Maryland for surgery where his mother persuaded him to pursue a career in sports by taking graduate courses in sports management at Georgetown University. An avid fan of baseball. His wife grew up in Bellevue, WA and his father lives in Washougal, WA.

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What to Know: Returns to Seattle with the Kraken after five years with AHL Tucson Roadrunners, serving as video coach and hockey operations assistant since the early days of the franchise operating in southern Arizona. Also served in a pre-scouting role for the coaching staff. In his previous position, he worked as a hockey ops assistant with the WHL's Seattle Thunderbirds with duties that included recording and logging video for coaches' use between periods and post-game, plus managing players' arrangements with billet families. Served as hockey ops intern with Arizona Coyotes for two seasons (2013-15).

Fun Facts: Raised in Phoenix, earned a business degree at Arizona State. His childhood hero is Hockey Hall of Famer Steve Yzerman.

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