The Carolina Hurricanes announced additions to the Checkers’ coaching staff Friday.
Peter Andersson will serve as assistant coach, while Myles Fee joins the organization as a video coach and Bryn-Marc Conaway takes over as the team’s strength and conditioning coach.
Also Friday, the Hurricanes named Curtis Joseph to a new goaltending consultant position. Joseph, a veteran of 943 career NHL games with St. Louis, Edmonton, Toronto, Detroit, Phoenix and Calgary, will work closely with the team's goaltending prospects in Charlotte.
This marks the first North American coaching position for Andersson, whose resume includes eight seasons as an assistant in Sweden and Switzerland. A native of Ferdertalve, Sweden, Andersson enjoyed a long playing career overseas, including winning an Olympic Bronze Medal in 1988. He also spent three seasons in the NHL with Washington (who selected him in the ninth round of the 1980 draft) and Quebec, totaling 51 points (10g, 41a) in 172 games.
Andersson will now reunite with Samuelsson, as the former served as the latter’s assistant coach during Samuelsson’s two seasons as head coach of Swedish league Modo from 2011-13.
Fee joins the Checkers having spent the last seven seasons as a video coach with the Edmonton Oilers. A 35-year-old native of Manitoba, Fee began his career in team services and as a video analyst with the New York Rangers in 2008-09 after wrapping up four years playing NCAA hockey for Manhattanville College. He was also named Team Europe’s video coach for the upcoming World Cup of Hockey.
Conaway has worked with the team in a part-time role since 2012 but now moves into a full-time role as the strength and conditioning coach. A native of Asheboro, NC, who earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science and his master’s degree in athletic training from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Conaway has been with Novant Health Lakeside Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine in Charlotte since 2011.
