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Vernon Vipers Associate Coach Kris Mallette.
Here is the press release from the Kelowna Rockets website,
Mallette was in his his sixth season as Head Coach of the Western Hockey League Kelowna Rockets.
Mallette has been Head Coach of Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team, an Assistant Coach with Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team last season, an Assistant Coach with Hockey Canada's Under 18 team at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup & Head Coach of Canada Red U17 2021-22 team.
Mallette is a Rockets Alumni (1996-1999) has been with the Rockets for the past ten seasons. Mallette spent six seasons as an Assistant Coach with the Rockets from 2014-2020 before being named Head Coach March 2nd 2020.
Mallette played ten seasons in the ECHL, UHL, CHL & IHL with Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Ashville, Elmira, Colorado, Youngstown, Laredo & Flint from 2000-2009 before retiring from professional hockey in 2009. Mallette spent three seasons in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League as an Assistant Coach & Head Coach of the North Okanagan Knights from 2010-2013.
Mallette spent one season in Vernon as an Associate Coach with the 2013-14 Vernon Vipers. Mallette left the Vipers after the 2013-14 season, returning to Kelowna in 2014. Mallette was named Rockets Assistant Coach July 4th 2014.
1 comment:
About time. I said this when he was an assistant coach, he was never a players coach, just a "me" coach. Never really gave direction to the kids, and never really took input from his *bleep*'t coaches, just did things his way. Coaching in todays world you need flexibility and Kris never showed that. He would not have been good to take the team to the Memorial Cup, thats for sure.
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