True of everyone who works behind an NHL bench, Campbell will pack up at game’s end without having registered a goal or assist, though she’ll finish the season having made her point, her mark in the game’s history, in each of the league’s 32 rinks. It took more than a century for NHL teams to understand that coaching is primarily teaching, and that teaching is best done by those able to teach, irrespective of gender — a truth North American public schools figured out long before the invention of vulcanized rubber.

Campbell, who captained the Big Red her senior season (2013-14), is roughly one month into her Seattle gig, promoted over the summer summer by Kraken general manager Ron Francis. She joined the organization two years ago, hired by Francis as an assistant with the club’s AHL Coachella Valley team, then was bumped to the parent club in July, weeks after Dan Bylsma moved up to replace Dave Hakstol as bench boss.

“She got this job,” Francis explained to nhl.com at the league’s Rookie Faceoff in September, “because she is a very talented coach, and we think she’ll bring not only the knowledge of a coach, but the ability to work with our players on power skating and skill development. It’s an extra voice in the room and an extra tool to help them.”

During Campbell’s two years working alongside Bylsma on the Coachella Valley bench, the Firebirds each season reached the Calder Cup Final, losing to Hershey both times. The Kraken, in the thick of a five-game road trip that wraps Tuesday night in Denver, have a couple of young forwards, including ex-first-rounder Shane Wright and Tye Kartye, whose games were honed in part by Campbell’s input.

“I believe in the skill and the attributes she brings to the individual players,” Bylsma, who directed the Penguins to a Stanley Cup title in 2009 at age 38, told nhl.com’s Tracey Myers, “and that she can give to them and help them become better in their own spot — in their own personal way and the team way.”

Campbell, like many girls across North America playing youth hockey, had no choice but to play on boys’ teams in Saskatchewan in order to test and improve her skills. Speaking to Seattle’s KING-TV this past week, she recalled the days when being the lone girl on those youth teams meant searching for a janitor’s room or storage closet at the rink, private space in order to change into her hockey gear.

“It itself, that was an experience,” she told Mimi Jung.

As it turned out, it was an experience with added value, a lesson in what Campbell said allows her now to “connect the dots backward” in her life.

“It instilled that fire in me,” added Campbell, “that I could do anything that the boys could do — because I was doing it then.”

Campbell, who finished third on the team in scoring as a senior at Cornell, played three-plus seasons after college, wrapping up her career with Malmo (Sweden) in 2019-20, prior to launching full-time into her coaching journey that she began in 2017-18 in Canada.

Campbell dovetailed her season playing in Malmo with a one-year stint as skating coach on Malmo’s men’s team. Prior to her move to Coachella Valley, she spent a portion of the 2021-22 season as an assistant with Germany’s men’s national team.

A couple of tattoos on Campbell’s right hand serve as reminders of her journey. On the back of her hand, one reads “ytimessa,” telling Myers it is Finnish for “flow, or flow state.” Another, closer to her wrist, is the familiar Swedish crown, homage to the three crowns typically across the front of Swedish hockey sweaters in international play.

The Kraken are not new to placing women in prominent jobs. Alexandra Mandrycky, one of the expansion franchise’s first hires as director of hockey administration, was promoted to assistant GM in 2022. Francis hired US hockey legend Cammi Granato as the first woman to be a full-time scout in the pro ranks in 2019. Three years later, Granato became an assistant GM with the Canucks.

Being first, and “carrying the torch,” Campbell has said repeatedly since joining the Kraken, “definitely puts meaning into the work.”

Where from here? In her Seattle TV interview, she encouraged women to chase their dreams fearlessly and to “do the work, stay committed” and see where determination takes them. It has worked for her.

Perhaps, she mused, that mantra eventually will lead her to being a bench boss in the NHL.

“I don’t see,” said Campbell, “why I can’t be a head coach one day.”

Seattle Kraken assistant coach Jessica Campbell draws up a play.Steph Chambers/Getty

MAKING HIS MARK

Sherwood a big hit with the Canucks

Until last season with the Predators, Kiefer Sherwood never spent a full season in the NHL. The former Miami University forward was forever his club’s 13th or 14th forward, called up to the varsity in times of trouble, sent back to the AHL when the numbers game in Anaheim, Colorado, or Nashville didn’t go his way.

Suddenly, under the guidance/motivation of Canucks coach Rick Tocchet, the little-known Sherwood has evolved as the early-season’s most consistent volume hitter. Through nine games, he was credited with 64 hits, first in the league and 10 more than Nashville’s Jeremy Lauzon at No. 2.

Lauzon, the ex-Bruin defenseman, set the league record (383) for hits last season with the Predators. As October expired, Sherwood was on pace for 583 hits, which would obliterate Lauzon’s mark. While Sherwood was averaging 7.1 hits per game, the Oilers, the NHL’s lowest volume hitters, as a team were averaging 13.8.

“Doing the math,” said Sherwood, “I definitely think it’s feasible for me to break the record.”

That said, Sherwood noted it’s a small sample size, and the larger point at the moment is that he remains consistent — and on target — with his hitting mentality.

An unrestricted free agent in July after two seasons in Nashville, Sherwood signed with Vancouver for two years at an average cap hit of $1.5 million. Never drafted, he was signed by the Ducks and turned pro following his junior season at Miami. In the early going, he’s providing the best bang for the buck among the 2024 UFA class.

Canucks forward Kiefer Sherwood has been one of the best free agent pickups to start the season.Derek Cain/Getty

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Joonas Korpisalo fulfilled the backup goaltender’s role to a T on Tuesday night, snuffing out 17 of 18 Flyers shots in the Bruins’ 2-0 loss at the Garden.

Uncomfortably tight against the salary cap (slightly more than a million bucks in elbow room), one option for the Bruins could be to move Korpisalo and promote AHL Providence No. 1 Brandon Bussi to ride in Jeremy Swayman’s sidecar. The net savings would add $2.25 million in cap space.

Meanwhile, the job remains in the hands of Korpisalo, the 30-year-old Finn who began his career in Columbus, chosen 62nd overall by the Blue Jackets in the 2012 draft.

“Very talented, very well liked in the room,” recalled Panthers GM Bill Zito, who was the Blue Jackets’ assistant GM for much of Korpisalo’s time in Ohio. “When he won, he’d say it was the team, and when he lost, he’d say it was him, and it’s sincere. Hard worker. We won an [AHL] championship with him.”

Zito, prior to entering management with the Blue Jackets, owned and operated the Acme World Sports agency, whose clients over the years included Tim Thomas, Tuukka Rask, Korpisalo, and many others.

The championship was a Calder Cup title in the spring of 2016 with Lake Erie, where a 22-year-old Korpisalo and Anton Forsberg (now in Ottawa), 23, manned the net for coach Jared Bednar (now the Avalanche’s bench boss).

“Our season in Columbus ended, Korpisalo had played well for us there, and we sent him to Erie for more work,” explained Zito. “He started and we won the first series in a sweep, then we went up, 2-0, with him in the next series.”

When Round 2 vs. Grand Rapids was knotted at two wins apiece, Bednar opted to sit Korpisalo, who was 6-2, in favor of Forsberg, who logged a stellar 23-10-5 during the regular season. Forsberg went 9-0 the rest of the way en route to the Monsters clinching the Cup.

“And through it all,” recalled Zito, “Korpisalo was the consummate professional, team supporter. I was so impressed by the way he handled himself. He was a champ, he really was.”

Bruins goaltender Joonas Korpisalo has been the consummate professional in relief of starting Jeremy Swayman.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

The Bruins’ shutout loss to the Flyers was their second in the first 10 games, following closely on the heels of the 4-0 whitewashing they took just one week earlier in Nashville.

In the 19 seasons in the post-lockout era (2005-06 through 2023-24), the Bruins were blanked in only 57 of 1,486 regular-season games, a 3.84 percent shutout rate.

Their rate of being on the wrong side of the bagel has been slightly higher during the playoffs, stymied in 10 of 190 games (5.26 percent).

“Just hasn’t materialized,” coach Jim Montgomery said following Wednesday’s workout, reflecting on his club’s lack of offensive mojo. “So we are changing [the lines] up.”

The midweek moves split up the Elias Lindholm-David Pastrnak tandem and sprinkled fourth-liners Johnny Beecher, Mark Kastelic, and Cole Koepke across the top nine like curative pixie dust. The results in Carolina were only worse.

The Black and Gold’s recent grope for goals is reminiscent of the 2020-21 season, the pandemic delaying the start of a shortened 56-game season until mid-January. Over the course of slightly more than three months, they were blanked five times in 45 games — by the Islanders (1/18, 1-0), Devils (3/7, 1-0), Rangers (3/13, 4-0), Devils (3/28, 1-0), and Penguins (4/25, 1-0).

Jessica Campbell’s first visit to Causeway Street comes some 78 years after Gordie Howe, Mr. Hockey, made his first visit to the old Garden on Nov. 13, 1946, Then an 18-year-old rookie, Howe went an unremarkable 0-0–0 in the Red Wings’ 5-2 loss to the Bruins. The Black and Gold were led by two goals from Milt Schmidt, then age 27, back for a second season following his three-year World War II stint with fellow Kraut Liners Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer . . . Granted, a long, long way to go, but through 11 games, ex-UMass Minuteman Cale Makar led NHL defensemen in points (4-15–19). If the Avalanche star could keep that pace, he would finish with 139 points, tying Bobby Orr’s record for points in a season by a defenseman. Orr, in the 78-game season of 1970-71, collected a line of 37-102–139 with the Big Bad Bruins. Makar’s pace for 115 assists would blow away the record 102 Orr picked up that season. Orr remains the lone NHL defenseman to reach the 100 plateau for helpers. Orr set the mark in the season he turned 23. Makar, in his sixth season with the Avalanche, on Wednesday celebrated his 26th birthday . . . The mediocre 5-5-1 Oilers, a Cup finalist in June, went into the weekend with the added burden of being sans superstar Connor McDavid (wrenched ankle) for the next 2-3 weeks. They rallied out of last season’s horrendous start, but a bad 2-3 weeks now could be what delivers them to the DNQ badlands. McDavid, for all the checking and physical beating he takes as the game’s No. 1 star/target, has been remarkably durable throughout his career after having his rookie 2015-16 season cut short at 45 games (and 48 points) by a broken clavicle. With him out of the mix, then-Blackhawk Artemi Panarin (80 games/77 points) copped the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year . . . Looking to slip out from under the misery of seven consecutive playoff misses, the Senators late in the week held the fourth-best points percentage (.556) in the Atlantic, paced by a red-hot power play (42.9 percent). Ottawa captain Brady Tkachuk, ex- of Boston University, already had four PPGs, sharing the league lead with Kyle Connor (Winnipeg), Ross Colton (Colorado), and Nico Hischier (New Jersey). The Senators, coached by ex-Bruin forward Travis Green, will be at the Garden Nov. 9, likely with old friend Linus Ullmark in net, in what could be the first time Ullmark and fellow hug brother Jeremy Swayman oppose each other. Remember the Kleenex . . . As the weekend approached, Jake DeBrusk (0-4–4) was still looking for his first goal as a Canuck . . . Former Bruins draftee Matt Benning, who played three seasons (2013-16) for Jim Madigan at Northeastern, received his get-out-of-jail-free card on Wednesday when traded from flatlined San Jose to Toronto for fellow blue liner Timothy Liljegren. Benning, 30, will add depth and experience to a Leafs blue line improved in the offseason with the acquisitions of UFAs Chris Tanev and Oliver Ekman-Larsson. The Bruins on Tuesday make their first visit to Toronto the Good . . . For decades this was the time of year when the Bruins moved back into the Garden, amid the fetid air that lingered in the old barn after the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus pulled up stakes upon the conclusion of its annual 10-12-day stay on Causeway Street. The stench hung heavy in the air into the early spring, mixed in with a thick porridge of cigar smoke and beer-drenched wooden stands. A smell impossible to replicate. In the early ‘80s, an unpopular Garden executive, who had the privilege to park his car routinely at ice level, one day found the hood of his car covered with the elephant dung that gave the building, and then his car, that unique, pungent smell. No one in the building ever ’fessed up, leaving all to marvel how an elephant could be so agile and accurate to deliver such an historic news dump. “The elephant,” recently recalled one Garden employee who was there that day, “received a standing ovation.”

Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at kevin.dupont@globe.com.