Jacques Martin, who won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s Coach of the Year in 1998-99 and was a finalist three other times, has been hired by the Rangers as an assistant coach on David Quinn’s staff, the team announced Monday.
Martin spent the last seven seasons in the Pittsburgh organization, including parts of the last five seasons as an assistant coach. But he was fired Aug. 12, along with fellow assistants Mark Recchi and Sergei Gonchar, after the Penguins were eliminated in the qualifying round for the playoffs by Montreal.
Martin fills the spot on Quinn’s staff that was vacated by Lindy Ruff, who left the Rangers in July to take over as coach of the Devils.