{"id":73333,"date":"2025-07-18T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73333\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:34:09","slug":"canes-announce-staff-promotions-and-additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73333\/","title":{"rendered":"Canes Announce Staff Promotions And Additions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211;<\/strong> Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League\u2019s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced several staff additions and promotions ahead of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player Development: Daniel Bochner<\/strong> has been promoted to a full-time position as Development Coach. Bochner has been working part-time in a similar role while living in Russia, but will now relocate to the United States to provide support for the team\u2019s players in both Raleigh and Chicago (American Hockey League).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hockey Operations: Kevin Kan<\/strong> has been promoted to Lead Software Developer, Hockey Systems, after previously serving as Senior Developer. <strong>Earl Schwartz,<\/strong> who joined the team in 2022-23 as Compliance Assistant, has been promoted to CBA and Salary Cap Analyst.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equipment:<\/strong> Now in his 21st season with the Hurricanes, <strong>Jorge Alves<\/strong> has been promoted to Head Equipment Manager. <strong>Bob Gorman,<\/strong> who first joined the club in 1976, will continue to work for the team in a reduced capacity this season, with plans to retire in the near future. <strong>Patrick Budds<\/strong> has been promoted from Equipment Assistant to Assistant Equipment Manager. <strong>CJ Reif<\/strong> will join the team as Equipment Assistant, after spending last season with the AHL\u2019s Chicago Wolves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Athletic Training:<\/strong> After previously serving as head trainer for the AHL\u2019s Springfield Thunderbirds, <strong>Koryd Lavimoniere<\/strong> joins the Hurricanes medical staff this season as Assistant Athletic Trainer. Lavimoniere also gained experience with the AHL\u2019s San Antonio Rampage and the ECHL\u2019s Norfolk Admirals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nutrition:<\/strong> With the creation of a new full-time role, <strong>Kristin Pirigyi<\/strong> has been promoted from Nutrition Consultant to Nutritionist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro Scouting: Zach Ellenthal<\/strong> has been hired to join the Hurricanes\u2019 pro scouting department, after spending the last four seasons with Rogle in the Swedish Hockey League. Hockey analyst <strong>Dennis King<\/strong> has also been hired as a Pro Scout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League\u2019s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced several staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-73333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114875679689911184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}