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The Manitoba Moose have stuffed a key emptiness on their teaching employees, hiring veteran coach and former professional defenceman Bob Nardella as an assistant coach underneath head coach Mark Morrison for the 2025-26 AHL season.
The #MBMoose introduced at present the group employed Bob Nardella as assistant coach.
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The place opened earlier this summer season when long-time assistant coach Eric Dubois departed after spending 9 seasons behind the Moose bench. The group turned to Nardella, a coach with over a decade of expertise to step into the function.
Nardella started his teaching profession in 2012-13 with the Chicago Wolves as a expertise coach earlier than being promoted to a full-time assistant function in 2014-15. He remained on the Wolves’ employees for almost a decade, highlighted by a Calder Cup championship in 2022. In 2023-24, the Melrose Park, Illinois, native was elevated to move coach of the Wolves.
Earlier than stepping behind the bench, Nardella loved a robust enjoying profession. The regular, puck-moving defenceman spent seven seasons with the Wolves within the AHL and IHL, the place he recorded 298 factors (59 targets, 239 assists) in 476 video games. He helped the group seize two Turner Cups (1998, 2000) and the 2002 Calder Cup. His enjoying profession additionally included time in Italy and Germany, in addition to worldwide competitors with Italy on the 1998 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
Nardella’s hockey roots stretch again to his days with the Des Moines Buccaneers of the USHL, the place he set a single-season franchise scoring document with 111 factors in 1987-88. He later performed three years at Ferris State College, making the transition from ahead to defence in his last season and posting a breakout 40-point marketing campaign.
Together with his wealth of expertise as each a participant and a coach, Nardella joins a Moose squad keen to show the web page. Manitoba can be trying to rebound after enduring a franchise-worst season in 2024-25.
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