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SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the following updates to its hockey operations staff. The club has hired Andrew Nolan as Massage Therapist and Ben Klein and Bryan Rohrbach as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coaches.

Nolan joins the Wild after serving as a part-time Massage Therapist for the Ottawa Senators for two seasons (2024-26) and five seasons as a Training Camp Massage Therapist for the Senators (2021-26). Nolan’s experience as a sports massage therapist includes extensive work with elite professional and international athletes, including NHL and international rugby organizations as well as many other athletes from a wide variety of sports. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Nolan was also the owner and founder of Athletic Kneads, a sports massage therapy business that specializes in athlete performance, recovery, and injury management. He has worked with Scotland’s national rugby union team and the Australian women’s national rugby union team as a Sports Massage Therapist. He is certified in Graston technique as well as Muscle Energy. Nolan received his Massage Therapy Diploma from the International Academy of Message in 2020 and has been registered with the College of Massage Therapist of Ontario (CMTO) since 2021.

Klein joins Minnesota after spending one year serving as the Research and Development Performance Analyst for the San Francisco 49ers (2025-26). Prior to his time with 49ers, he spent three seasons working with the men’s basketball team at Michigan State University, serving as a Sports Science Graduate Assistant (2022-24) and Basketball Analytics and Sports Scientist (2024-25). He has also spent time with the Chicago Bulls as a Sports Science and Strength and Conditioning Intern (2023), Sports Science Intern with the UFC (2022), Sports Performance Consultant (2021-24) and Sports Performance Intern with FC Cincinnati (2021), Sports Science Intern at Ohio State University (2018-22) and Strength and Conditioning Intern at John Carroll University (2017-18). Klein earned a B.A. in Communications from Ohio State University in 2022 before earning an M.S. in Kinesiology from Michigan State University in 2023.

Rohrbach joins Minnesota after serving as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League for two seasons (2024-26). Prior to working with the Iowa Wild, Rohrbach served as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Iowa Heartlanders in the ECHL for three seasons (2021-24). He also supported the University of Northern Iowa’s (UNI) men’s and women’s track and field teams along with the women’s tennis team and offered support to the strength programs at multiple Iowa high schools. Rohrbach earned a B.A. in Exercise Science in 2012 from UNI, then stayed in Cedar Falls to earn his M.S. in Kinesiology and Sports Performance from UNI in 2014.