The Arizona Coyotes’ hiring of Dawn Braid as their skating coach this week resonated with former Robert Morris University goaltender Brianne McLaughlin.
It was also coincidental.
“It’s actually funny this happened,” McLaughlin told the Post-Gazette by phone on Thursday. “I was working at camp with one of my old teammates from the national team (Molly Engstrom). She coaches. I coach. We were talking about what we wanted to do with it. It never really crossed our minds to do that.”
It did for Braid, and the result is historic. She’s believed to be the first full-time female coach in NHL history.