insidesocal.com - 8/4/2008
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Mark Hardy will rejoin the Kings as an assistant coach, the team announced today. He will join Jamie Kompon, who has been promoted to assistant coach, and Nelson Emerson, who has been promoted to assistant coach/development coordinator under new coach Terry Murray. Hardy, formerly an assistant coach under Andy Murray, spent the past two years as an assistant coach in Chicago. I heard that he ...
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Puck Headlines: The dedication, pasty skin of NY hockey tattoos
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... • The Los Angeles Kings announced that Mark Hardy, Jamie Kompon and Nelson "hockey card you always ended up getting in wax packs" Emerson will be assistant coaches under Terry Murray. Almost-head-coach Mike Johnston was offered a job within the organization; Dave Lewis is, sadly for some and appropriately enough for others, unemployed. [Inside the Kings] ...
McCrimmon joins Wings as Lewis is fired by Kings
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... overnight) happened to occur on the same day that the Los Angeles Kings replaced former Red Wings assistant/head coach Dave Lewis with Nelson Emmerson and Mark Hardy.
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