WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Jets have hired Jamie Kompon as the team’s new assistant coach.
Kompon replaces Pascal Vincent who took the job as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose.
Kompon, 49, joins the Jets after serving as general manager and head coach of the Western Hockey League’s Portland Winterhawks the past two seasons. He guided the Winterhawks to a 77-54-13 record, taking the club all the way to the Western Conference Final in 2015. He was fired in April after the team made a first round exit from the playoffs.
Kompon was born in Thunder Bay and has extensive experience behind an NHL bench. He won the Stanley Cup in consecutive seasons in 2012 and 2013 with two different teams. He was the Los Angeles Kings assistant coach for six seasons from 2006-12. He also spent two seasons as an assistant with the Chicago Blackhawks from 2012-14. He also worked in the St. Louis Blues organization in various roles from 1997-2006.
As a player, Kompon played four seasons at McGill University and he also played professionally in the East Coast Hockey League and in Germany.
He joins Paul Maurice’s coaching staff that already included assistant coach Charlie Huddy, goaltender coach Wade Flaherty and video coach Matt Prefontaine.