A who's who of people with roots in Canadian women's hockey were hired to step behind the benches of Professional Women's Hockey League teams in the league's inaugural season.
Five of the six head coaches announced Friday by the PWHL are Canadian: Troy Ryan , Carla MacLeod , Kori Cheverie Courtney Birchard-Kessel and Howie Draper .
Toronto GM Gina Kingsbury has hired Ryan a second time. She promoted him from assistant to head coach of the national women's team while she was Hockey Canada's head of that program. "On one hand, I am excited to be stretching myself and seeing what might be possible at that level of the game," he said in a statement."On the other, I leave a group of athletes and coaches that I truly love working with on a day-to-day basis."
Cheverie of New Glasgow, N.S., has been Ryan's assistant coach on the national squad through world championships and the Olympic Games since 2019.
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