
Joins Jeff Camelio's staff after serving as head equipment trainer for AHL Milwaukee Admirals since 2014-15 and earlier seasons as assistant. Also worked in the now-defunct International Hockey League with the Flint, MI, franchise. Took on quite the change-of-pace year to be equipment manager for Medvescak Zagreb of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.
He got his start filling water bottles and then worked as a stick boy for the West Coast Hockey League team in Bakersfield, CA. He also volunteered for his hometown single-A minor league baseball team. Moving back to the West with his wife, Krysta, 2-year-old son, and two dogs.