The Brandon Wheat Kings have introduced they’re making a training change, parting methods with Head Coach Don MacGillivray. Present Wheat Kings Basic Supervisor Marty Murray will assume teaching duties transferring ahead.
“Some of these choices are very troublesome in our enterprise, particularly when coping with good individuals,” mentioned Murray. “We’re not glad with our document, particularly on residence ice. Everybody should settle for accountability, together with administration, coaches, and gamers. We owe it to the followers and this nice group to be higher, and that’s what our focus shall be.”
MacGillivray has spent the previous seven seasons within the Wheat Kings group, approaching board as an Assistant Coach in 2016-17 earlier than taking over the position as Head Coach throughout the 2020-21 season. MacGillivray finishes his head teaching tenure in Brandon with an everyday season document of 61-47-7-2. The staff at the moment sits on the backside of the East Division with a document of 8-15-2-0.
“We want to thank Don for his contributions and keenness in direction of the Wheat King group through the years, and we want him nothing however the very best,” Murray went on to say.
Assistant Coaches Mark Derlago and Del Pedrick will stay on the teaching workers. Murray turns into the twenty fifth Head Coach in Wheat Kings historical past. He brings over a decade of head teaching expertise because the Head Coach and GM of each the Minot Minotauros of the NAHL from 2011-2020 adopted by two seasons with the Sioux Falls Stampede group of the USHL from 2020-2021.
The Wheat Kings are again in motion this weekend after they host the Prince Albert Raiders on Friday Evening and the Swift Present Broncos on Saturday Evening at Westoba Place.
