Comic Nikki Glaser has shared a humorous response after being mistaken for Jessica Campbell, who this week made her debut as the primary ever feminine assistant coach within the historical past of the Nationwide Hockey League (NHL).
Campbell was photographed behind the bench on the opening evening of the NHL season on Tuesday, as her group, the Seattle Kraken, took on the St. Louis Blues on the Local weather Pledge Enviornment in Seattle.
The headline-making appointment was introduced in July by incoming head coach Dan Bylsma, with whom Campbell had coached a Kraken minor league group.
Arriving months after the summer season announcement that she could be becoming a member of the group, Campbell involves the Kraken with a wealth of expertise courting again to her early days of taking part in with Workforce Saskatchewan on the Nationwide Girls’s Underneath-18 Championship, the place she served as group captain twice.
From left: Nikki Glaser is pictured on September 15, 2024 in West Hollywood, California; Jessica Campbell is seen on October 8, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. Glaser has reacted with humor after she was mistaken for Campbell, who this week made historical past as the primary girl to educate within the NHL.
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Following a stint with Workforce Saskatchewan and Hockey Canada’s Pursuit of Excellence group, she would go on to play hockey in faculty at Cornell. In her 4 years taking part in for Cornell, Campbell secured 46 targets and 54 assists.
As Campbell’s debut made headlines, Glaser shared an Instagram Story publish during which she revealed that a lot of folks had mistaken her for the NHL coach.
Sharing a headline relating to Campbell’s official debut, Glaser wrote: “Because of everybody who congratulated me at the moment. I am prepared for this problem.”
In a follow-up publish, Glaser shared a photograph that confirmed Campbell standing behind the bench on Tuesday, including the caption: “So happy with my group.”
Nikki Glaser shared a pair of Instagram posts on Tuesday following the NHL sport.
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Jokes apart, Campbell spoke about making her historic debut, telling NHL.com: “The yr forward goes to be quite a lot of enjoyable. However to know and to know that clearly there’s nonetheless on the forefront the ideas of different girls and different individuals who have the identical aspirations as I do. So, to hold that torch on daily basis and hold my deal with being a coach, but it surely undoubtedly places which means into the work.”
Following her stint at Cornell, Campbell went on to the Canadian Girls’s Hockey League, the place she spent three seasons taking part in for the Calgary Inferno. She would safe 29 targets and 21 assists in her time there.
Campbell additionally represented Canada’s nationwide group, securing three medals. She secured a silver medal with Canada Girls’s Nationwide Underneath-18 Ice Hockey Workforce in 2009, a gold medal in 2010, and a silver medal in 2015 when she performed for Canada within the IIHF Ice Hockey Girls’s World Championship.
She retired from Canada’s nationwide group in 2017 and transitioned into teaching. She owned JC Powerskating, the place she coached gamers like Tyson Jost and Joel Edmundson.
Campbell was employed by the Coachella Valley Firebirds in 2022, which is the highest minor league affiliate of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken. Campbell made historical past as the primary girl employed on a full-time foundation as a behind-the-bench coach within the AHL.