The Chicago Blackhawks have employed Jared Nightingale as head coach of the Rockford IceHogs, the crew’s American Hockey League affiliate.
Nightingale returns to the Rockford bench, having beforehand served as an assistant coach for the IceHogs from 2021-24.
Assistant coaches Rob Klinkhammer and Josh MacNevin will stay with the membership.
Nightingale, 42, most not too long ago served as head coach and director of hockey operations for the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays in the course of the 2024-25 marketing campaign. He posted a 52-15-5 document in his one season with the crew, and received the John Brophy Award as ECHL coach of the yr because the Stingrays completed with the perfect regular-season document within the league.
Throughout his time as an assistant in Rockford, Nightingale helped the membership to 111 wins and three straight appearances within the Calder Cup Playoffs. He has additionally served as an assistant with Flint and Saginaw within the Ontario Hockey League, the U.S. Nationwide Workforce Growth Program, and Omaha in the USA Hockey League.
A local of Jackson, Mich., Nightingale performed 11 skilled seasons as a defenseman, together with 472 video games within the AHL with Springfield, Iowa, Chicago, Hartford/Connecticut, Syracuse, Rockford, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee and Norfolk.
