NEWS: Clan goalies in safe hands with Hartigan

The Glasgow Clan are delighted to announce the appointment of Jack Hartigan as the new netminder coach in the 2024/25 season.

The 36-year-old, from Bedford, Nova Scotia is set to take up his first post in the UK and joins after six years in Germany’s DEL 2.

And Hartigan revealed he’s familiar with the Elite League after working with another former Clan coach.

“I’m excited to be working with the Glasgow Clan this season, and it is great to be working with the goaltenders and the rest of the team,” he said.

“I know Corey very well from our days coaching against each other in DEL 2 in Germany.

“I had the last year with the Kassel Huskies and before that, I was with the Ravensburg Towerstars and Freiburg Wolves working with former Clan coach Pete Russell.

“I’ve never coached in the UK, but I was lucky enough to watch a lot of games working with Pete when he was getting ready for the Great Britain national team, so I’m familiar with the calibre of the league.

“It’s a fast and physical league, and there are a lot of great players there so I’m looking forward to coming over and working with the guys.”

Hartigan arrives from the Kassel Huskies, where he’s spent the last year, and was part of the coaching team that worked with new Clan arrivals Steven Seigo and Rylan Schwartz.

Prior to that, he spent between 2020 and 2022 with Ravensburg and with Nurnberg Ice Tigers in the DEL, working with both teams in tandem after the previous couple of seasons at Freiburg with Russell.

He’s also worked in Norway and Denmark in his career, and will make the UK his latest stop as he teams up with Corey Neilson and the Clan ahead of the new campaign.

The Clan coach welcomed the new addition to his coaching team and revealed Jack has already got to work in his new role.

He said: “At the start of the summer I had a lot of different ideas about the direction I would go with my coaching team.

“When Mike Sirant came up, I thought he would be the perfect complement to my skill set, so that left us with a bit of a hole on the goalie coaching side of things which I feel is imperative in a team’s success.

“With my contacts in Germany and the recommendation from GB coaches Peter Russell and Euan King, I feel Jack Hartigan is the perfect addition to our coaching team.

“His proposal of capturing and presenting all game review video for goalies, providing drills when he’s not there, and his hands-on direct consultation every four to six weeks was exactly what I was looking for.

“He has already started to build relationships with our guys and will be joining us early at training camp, and our German adventure until Mike gets back from Australia to join us.”