New bench gig for Darryl Moxam
Darryl Moxam’s planned return to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League coaching ranks came to an abrupt halt earlier today when the soon-to-be-40-year-old was hired by the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League as an assistant.
Moxam was slated to take over as the new head coach of the NOJHL’s Rayside-Balfour Canadians for the 2016-2017 season when the OHL Wolves came calling after long-time assistant Bryan Verreault stepped down.
With a vacancy on their coaching staff, the Wolves looked no further than the Greater Sudbury Area in hiring Moxam as a secondary assistant under head coach David Matsos and associate coach Drake Berehowsky.
Moxam, who had spent the past three seasons on the coaching staff of the Laurentian University Voyageurs, is a former NOJHL championship coach from his days with the erstwhile Sudbury Jr. Wolves.
A product of the Sudbury area town of Lively, Moxam is also a former OHL winger who played four seasons with the Peterborough Petes, Oshawa Generals and the hometown Wolves before skating at the Canadian university level with the Acadia Axemen.
With Moxam moving up to the OHL and the Wolves, veteran NOJHL coach Dave Clancy will assume bench-boss duties with Rayside-Balfour. Clancy is also general manager of the NOJHL Canadians.