Former Spokane Chiefs player and assistant coach Jon Klemm was added to the coaching staff with the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League.

Klemm – a defenseman – played in 773 NHL games recording 42 goals and 142 points. He won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 1996 and 2001. Klemm also captured the Memorial Cup in 1991 as a member of the Spokane Chiefs.

Klemm began his coaching career as an assistant with Spokane in 2009 and spent three seasons with the team. In 2013, he moved to Texas and has spent the past three seasons coaching youth hockey in the North American Prospects Hockey League (NAPHL).