The Nashville Predators have employed Matt Donovan as an assistant coach for his or her American Hockey League affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals.
Donovan rounds out Milwaukee’s bench workers, which incorporates head coach Karl Taylor and fellow assistant coach Greg Rallo.
Donovan, 34, concluded a 13-year skilled profession in 2023-24 by notching 4 targets and 39 assists in 69 video games with the Chicago Wolves. An AHL All-Star in 2013 and 2019, Donovan performed 524 AHL video games with Chicago, Milwaukee, Rochester and Bridgeport, totaling 68 targets and 232 assists for 300 factors.
Donovan was a fourth-round choose by the New York Islanders within the 2008 NHL Draft and appeared in 69 profession NHL video games with the Islanders and Predators, recording two targets and 18 assists.
A local of Edmond, Okla., Donovan resides in Milwaukee together with his household and has run summer season hockey colleges over the previous 4 years.