Oilers Hire Fleming as Assistant Coach
August 26, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Edmonton Oilers, NHL coaches, News
The Edmonton Oilers have an assistant coach. The team has brought on Wayne Fleming, who was most recently employed as the head coach of the Continental Hockey League’s Avangard Omsk (last season) but may be more familiar to Canadians as the former assistant coach of the Calgary Flames for three seasons.
Oilers GM, Steve Tambellini, seems happy with the deal: "Wayne brings an array of experience from both the NHL and international level. We feel his knowledge of the game will be a compliment to our coaching staff."
Fleming does have great NHL experience after working with Calgary, Philadelphia, Phoenix and the New York Islanders. He was assistant coach and GM on Canada’s Olympic 1992 silver medal-winning team.
He will join fellow assistant coach, Kelly Buchberger, in working alongside new head coach Pat Quinn and associate coach Tom Renney.
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