{"id":582198,"date":"2026-05-23T22:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/582198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:42:27","slug":"seattle-kraken-say-assistant-coach-jessica-campbell-will-not-return-next-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/582198\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken say assistant coach Jessica Campbell will not return next season"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Jessica Campbell, the first woman to be an on-bench assistant coach<\/a> in NHL history, will not return to the Seattle Kraken<\/a> next season, the team said Thursday.<\/p>\n

General manager Jason Botterill said Campbell\u2019s contract is expiring and she expressed a desire to explore other roles around the league.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe support her in this process,\u201d Botterill said in a statement. \u201cJessica has been an important member of our coaching staff for the past four years, demonstrating deep knowledge and a unique ability to connect with and develop players. We respect her decision and believe strongly in her as a coach in this league.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell was promoted from the American Hockey League\u2019s Coachella Firebirds along with Dan Bylsma in 2024 after he became the organization\u2019s second head coach. She was retained after Bylsma was fired a year ago and replaced by Lane Lambert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Kraken missed the playoffs<\/a> each of the past two seasons and only qualified once since their debut in 2021-22. The Firebirds made back-to-back trips to the Calder Cup Final when Campbell was on Bylsma’s AHL staff.<\/p>\n

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AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Jessica Campbell, the first woman to be an on-bench assistant coach in NHL history, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2377,4437,5,3499,1762,4188,4,1488,60,2686,234,5318],"class_list":["post-582198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-assistant-coach","tag-dan-bylsma","tag-hockey","tag-jason-botterill","tag-jessica-campbell","tag-kraken","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-history","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116626308677594875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}