Idaho’s Sheen, South Carolina’s Kotyk named coaches for 2023 Warrior/ECHL All-Star Classic

The ECHL introduced on Thursday that Everett Sheen of the Idaho Steelheads and Brenden Kotyk of the South Carolina Stingrays have earned the precise function the coaches for the 2023 Warrior/ECHL All-Star Traditional offered by Optima Well being and Sentara Healthcare. The sport takes place on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 at Norfolk Scope Enviornment in Norfolk, Virginia and can air LIVE completely on NHL Community and can stream on FloHockey.
 
The 2023 Warrior/ECHL All-Star Traditional offered by Optima Well being and Sentara Healthcare will include a event that includes the ECHL All-Stars and the Norfolk Admirals, with an built-in abilities competitors with factors counting in the direction of every crew’s rating. In partnership with the Premier Hockey Federation and Skilled Ladies’s Hockey Gamers Affiliation, two members from every group will take part within the All-Star Traditional with one participant being assigned to every of the 4 groups.
 
Sheen and Kotyk obtain the teaching honors by advantage of their groups having the highest successful proportion of their respective convention by way of video games of Dec. 23.
 
In his third season because the Steelheads’ head coach, Sheen has led Idaho to an ECHL-best 23-3-1 report this season. Previous to taking on as head coach, he spent three seasons because the membership’s assistant coach. Sheen had a five-year skilled taking part in profession, which included time within the ECHL in every season. He performed 319 profession ECHL video games with Studying, Ontario and Colorado, scoring 137 factors (48g-89a). He additionally hung out with the American Hockey League’s Windfall Bruins in the course of the 2011-12 season. Sheen performed 4 seasons of school hockey at Faculty of the Holy Cross, serving as captain in his junior and senior seasons.
 
Kotyk has led South Carolina to a 16-5-3 report is in first full season because the Stingrays’ head coach after serving because the membership’s interim head coach for the ultimate 18 video games of the 2021-22 season. The 31-year-old joined the Stingrays’ workers an assistant coach previous to the 2020-21 season, serving to lead the crew to the 2021 Kelly Cup Finals. Previous to becoming a member of the Stingrays workers, Kotyk had a three-year skilled taking part in profession, spending the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons with the Toledo Walleye, showing in 50 video games throughout every marketing campaign and reaching the 2019 Kelly Cup Finals. Kotyk started his professional profession in 2017-18 with the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack and hung out within the ECHL with the Greenville Swamp Rabbits. Earlier than turning professional, he performed 4 seasons on the College of Minnesota-Duluth following one season at The Faculty of St. Scholastica. Kotyk helped UMD to NCAA Event appearances in three seasons with the Bulldogs and as an alternate captain his senior season was part of the 2017 Frozen 4 and Nationwide Championship appearances.
 
The fifteenth class of the ECHL Corridor of Fame shall be formally inducted at a luncheon, offered by BFL CANADA and Sutton Particular Threat, on Monday, January 16 at 12:00 p.m. on the Hilton Norfolk The Principal, the Official Host Resort of the 2023 ECHL All-Star Traditional.
 
Tickets for the 2023 Warrior/ECHL All-Star Traditional offered by Optima Well being and Sentara Healthcare are actually obtainable. CLICK HERE to buy your tickets as we speak! For extra info on the 2023 ECHL All-Star Traditional, go to. ECHL.com/allstar.
 
Concerning the ECHL

Shaped in 1988-89 with 5 groups in 4 states, the ECHL has grown right into a coast-to-coast league with 26 groups in 19 states and two Canadian provinces for its thirty second season in 2019-20. There have been 731 gamers who’ve gone on to play within the Nationwide Hockey League after beginning their careers within the ECHL, together with 4 who’ve made their NHL debut within the 2022-23 season. The ECHL has affiliations with 28 of the 32 NHL groups in 2022-23, marking the twenty sixth consecutive season that the league has affiliations with at the least 20 groups within the NHL. Additional info on the ECHL is on the market on its web site at ECHL.com in addition to on Twitter and Fb.