| Assistant General Manager / Director of Player Personnel Jason Koehler | |
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Jason Koehler was named Assistant General Manager/Director of Player Personnel in April 2009. In this capacity, he is involved in all
 aspects of the team’s day-to-day hockey operations – primarily player personnel matters.The Pittsburgh native began his career with the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, working as a coaching assistant to then Penguins’ head coach Kevin Constantine for two seasons and also briefly as an assistant to General Manager Craig Patrick on player contracts and arbitration issues in the off-season. Jason gained valuable experience in the junior hockey ranks with the now-defunct Pittsburgh Forge, where he served as general manager during the team’s championship season in 2002-03, and the Mahoning Valley Phantoms of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), where he helped the team transition from the Continental Elite Hockey League.
He has also worked with the Sioux Falls Stampede and the Chicago Steel of the USHL, rising to the role of GM in Chicago and orchestrating a 20-win and 44-point improvement in 2007-08. Most recently, Jason served as the United States Scout for the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), covering the US territory for the OHL Entry Draft and US free agent player signings for the club.
At all his Junior-A stops, Jason has been responsible for scouting, evaluating and recruiting talent as well as drafting, signing, and trading players and all other player personnel decisions. In his eight years of Junior-A hockey experience, Jason has acquired over 125 NCAA Division I college hockey players and had 25 NHL Draft picks on his rosters. Six of Koehler’s previous players played in the NHL this season.
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