CALGARY The Calgary Flames have hired Jason Labarbera as the NHL club s new goaltending coach and promoted Jordan Sigalet to the new role of director of goaltending. The goal and mission of this change is to provide us with the best process to identify, draft, develop, procure and coach goalies for the Calgary Flames, Flames general manager Brad Treliving said Wednesday in a statement. We believe this structure and process will provide us with the best and deepest goaltending expertise throughout all parts of the organization. Sigalet of New Westminster, B.C., will start his seventh season in the Flames organization. His first three were coaching goalies with the club s American Hockey League affiliate.
Originally posted on Pro Hockey Rumors | By Gavin Lee | Last updated 12/16/20
The Calgary Flames, perhaps taking a page from the Florida Panthers book, have created a new goaltending department in the front office, which will be led by Jordan Sigalet as Director of Goaltending. General manager Brad Treliving explained just what the department’s role in the organization will be: The goal and mission of this change is to provide us with the best process to identify, draft, develop, procure and coach goalies for the Calgary Flames. We believe this structure and process will provide us with the best and deepest goaltending expertise throughout all parts of the organization.
Following an emerging trend in the National Hockey League, the Calgary Flames announced the creation of a goaltending department on Wednesday.
As part of the new structure, current Flames goaltending coach Jordan Sigalet will oversee the goaltending development of all the organization’s goaltenders, including those in the minor leagues and prospects. Sigalet, a former Boston Bruins prospect, had spent the previous five seasons as the Flames’ goalie coach.
Jason Labarbera, who is currently in the Edmonton bubble as Team Canada’s goalie coach at the World Juniors, will become the Flames’ full-time goalie coach.
Labarbera, who suited up for 187 NHL games with the New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Arizona Coyotes, Edmonton Oilers, and Anaheim Ducks during a 17-year pro career, had spent the past four seasons as the goalie coach of the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League, which shares the same ownership group as the Flames.
Flames announce creation of new goaltending department
Calgary Flames GM Brad Treliving speaks at a press conference. (Larry MacDougal/CP) | December 16, 2020, 11:38 AM
December 16, 2020, 11:38 AM
CALGARY The Calgary Flames have hired Jason Labarbera as the NHL club s new goaltending coach and promoted Jordan Sigalet to the new role of director of goaltending.
``The goal and mission of this change is to provide us with the best process to identify, draft, develop, procure and coach goalies for the Calgary Flames, Flames general manager Brad Treliving said Wednesday in a statement.
``We believe this structure and process will provide us with the best and deepest goaltending expertise throughout all parts of the organization.