There will be two new people joining Battlefords North Stars head coach and general manager Nate Bedford on the bench at the Civic Centre this coming season.
Both associate coach Braeden Johnson and trainer Robert Tanner are moving on from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team to pursue other opproutnites.
Johnston, who played with the North Stars from 2011-13 and joined the team’s coaching staff in December 2014, is heading back to school.
Tanner, who joined the North Stars in 2015 following a stint with the Surrey Eagles of the British Columbia Hockey League, is headed back to the west coast.
As a result, the North Stars are currently accepting resumes for both positions.
More information on the jobs can be found on the team’s website.
In other news, the Canalta Cup champions made a couple of roster moves this past week.
The North Stars acquired 18-year-old forward Josh Sielsky from the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Neepawa Natives last Tuesday in exchange for future considerations.
The Maidstone native, who played in four games with the SJHL’s Nipawin Hawks to start the 2016-17 campaign, had 17 points in 39 games for the Natives and the Portage Terriers last season.
Friday saw the North Stars complete their big trade deadline move from January with the La Ronge Ice Wolves as they dealt away forward Cam Nickerson as the future considerations portion of that deal.
The original trade saw the North Stars acquire Jared Blaqueire and Zach Nedelec from the Ice Wolves in exchange for prospects Austin Shumanski, MacKenzie Donovan, Shaune Hounsell, a player development fee and a first round pick in the 2017 SJHL bantam draft.
The Ice Wolves would end picking 12th overall earlier this month and selected Meadow Lake forward Skylar Olson.
Nickerson, a 19 year old from Duncan, B.C, had no points in nine regular season games for the North Stars after he was acquired from the Nanaimo Buccaneers of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League in January,.
