Florida Panthers fill out Paul Maurice’s teaching workers with three new assistant coaches

Paul Maurice formally completed placing collectively his teaching workers Wednesday when the Florida Panthers hired three new assistant coaches, together with one who labored for Maurice with the Winnipeg Jets for the previous six years.

Jamie Kompon, Sylvain Lefebvre and Myles Fee are all headed to the Panthers, becoming a member of Tuomo Ruutu and Robb Tallas, each of whom Maurice retained, to function assistant coaches for the brand new coach.

Kompon is the one coach who has expertise working with Maurice. The 55-year-old Canadian had been an assistant coach with the Jets since 2016, serving to Winnipeg attain the Stanley Cup playoffs in 4 consecutive seasons from 2018 to 2021. He additionally beforehand was an assistant for coach Joel Quenneville with the Chicago Blackhawks from 2012 to 2014 and an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Kings from 2006 to 2012. He gained back-to-back Stanley Cups as an assistant coach with the Kings in 2012 and the Blackhawks in 2013.

Lefebvre involves Florida after spending the previous three years as an assistant coach with AHL San Diego. The 54-year-old Canadian additionally beforehand served as an assistant for the Colorado Avalanche and briefly had a job with the Columbus Blue Jackets earlier than being faraway from his submit in 2021 after he opted not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, rendering him unable to satisfy his full duties as an assistant underneath NHL tips.

Fee spent the previous three years as a video coach with the Buffalo Sabres. It was his first NHL teaching job and the 41-year-old Canadian beforehand was an assistant coach for AHL Charlotte from 2016 to 2019, successful a Calder Cup in his closing season.

Ruutu stays an assistant coach, Tallas stays the goaltending coach and Georgie Kinnear stays the coach of the Charlotte Checkers, who’re coming into their third 12 months because the Panthers’ American Hockey League affiliate.

Florida employed Maurice, 55, in June after Quenneville resigned early final season due to revelations about his function in Chicago’s mishandling of a 2010 sexual assault allegation and basic supervisor Bill Zito opted to not give former interim coach Andrew Brunette, who turned a finalist for the Jack Adams Award, the full-time job.