After an early end to his tenure with the Southern Professional Hockey League's Pensacola Ice Flyers last month, Kevin Hasselberg has found a new home for the 2017-18 season.
It was announced Thursday afternoon that the former Battlefords North Stars bench boss will be the new head coach and general manager for the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Drumheller Dragons.
The 40-year-old, who was with the North Stars from 2011 to 2016 before moving to Florida, had previously coached in the AJHL with the Olds Grizzlys from 2004 to 2010 and helped them reach the semifinal round in 2009.
The Dragons, who finished in sixth place in the AJHL South Division this year and lost in the first round to the Calgary Canucks, had parted ways with fifth-year head coach and general manager Brian Curran in February.
Hasselberg was with the Ice Flyers as their head coach and manager until February when he was replaced by Rod Aldoff, who had moved up to the Norfolk Admirals of the ECHL but was fired after a bad start to the season.
