OHL Kitchener head coach Jussi Ahokas has now generated interest from NHL clubs for assistant roles in each of the past two summers, he told Josh Brown of the Waterloo Region Record .

The 44-year-old Ahokas has been on the radar for quite some time now, and there’s a fair chance he becomes only the third full-time European head coach in league history at some point in the coming years. He’s already cemented himself as the first European bench boss in OHL history and is coming off a spectacular second season with the Kitchener Rangers in 2024-25. He helped the team along to a 47-15-6 record and a conference final loss despite his roster not having any uber-notable NHL prospects outside of defenseman Cameron Reid , who was a first-round selection by the Predators this year.

That got

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