CHICAGO, IL
- The Los Angeles Kings have named Mike
Johnston as Associate Coach, Jamie
Kompon as Assistant Coach, Bill Ranford as Goaltending
Coach and Nelson Emerson as Video and Player Development Consultant,
Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi and Kings Head Coach Marc
Crawford announced today. Per club policy, terms of the agreements were
not announced.
Johnston, Kompon, Ranford and Emerson all join Crawford, who was hired
by the Kings on May 22, on the Kings coaching staff.
“I am very pleased with the staff that Dean and I have put together,”
said Crawford. “Mike Johnston is a great thinker and he understands what
it takes to win at all levels. He’s dealt with all kinds of players and
he’s very good with the technical aspects of the game. Jamie Kompon has
been with the coaching staff in St. Louis for the past nine years and,
like Mike, he has a lot of experience and strengths. Our staff will be
well complemented by the addition of Bill Ranford. I am very impressed
with him and how much he’s worked at his craft. Nelson Emerson, who
Kings fans know well, is not only a product of the Kings but he also
coached the Junior Kings which won a state championship last year.”
Kompon, 39, recently completed his ninth season with the St. Louis Blues
organization where he served as the club’s Video Coach since arriving in
1997. He added Strength and Conditioning Coach to his title during the
2002-03 season, and this past spring he was on the coaching staff of
Team Canada at the World Championship in Latvia where he served as Video
Coach.
Prior to joining the Blues, Kompon was an Assistant Coach with the
Baltimore Bandits of the American Hockey League for the 1996-97 season
and he also served as Co-Head Coach at McGill University in Montreal in
1994-95 after being employed there as an Assistant Coach for three
seasons.
Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Kompon also played four seasons as a
defenseman at McGill (1985-89) and then he played two seasons of
professional hockey, including stints in the East Coast Hockey League
and in the German Elite League. Jamie’s wife’s name is Tina.
