Skip navigation
Favorites
Sign up to follow your favorites on all your devices.
Sign up

Reunited: Spott joins DeBoer’s staff in San Jose

Peter Horancheck

Peter Horancheck

AP

Seven years after they last coached together in the Ontario Hockey League, Steve Spott and Peter DeBoer will reunite behind the San Jose Sharks bench this season.

The Sharks announced on Monday that Spott will join DeBoer’s staff as an assistant coach.

“I’m excited to work with Steve again,” said DeBoer in a statement. “We have a great relationship and he has grown significantly as a coach in the seven years since we last worked together. We are very fortunate he was available.”

Spott spent last season as an assistant coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs after guiding the AHL’s Toronto Marlies to the Western Conference final during the 2013-14 season.

Excited and honoured to be joining the @SanJoseSharks coaching staff.

— Steve Spott (@regal9) August 24, 2015

Prior to joining the Leafs’ organization, Spott coached in the OHL with both the Kitchener Rangers and the Plymouth Whalers.

The 47-year-old joined Plymouth in 1997 and spent four seasons on DeBoer’s staff as an assistant coach, before they both moved to Kitchener in 2001. Spott spent his first seven seasons in Kitchener as an assistant coach under DeBoer, helping the Rangers win a Memorial Cup in 2003.

Related: Heading back to San Jose: Sharks sign McLaren

Follow @dcmahiban