The Bruins have finalized their coaching staff for the upcoming season, adding Doug Jarvis as an assistant to replace the departed Craig Ramsay.
Ramsay left the club in June to become the head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers.
Jarvis, 55, will be reunited with Bruins head coach Claude Julien. Jarvis spent four seasons behind the bench as an associate coach for the Canadiens from 2005-09, serving under Julien for the first 41 games of the 2005-06 season. Prior to that, Jarvis followed in Julien’s footsteps as the head coach of Montreal’s AHL affiliate in Hamilton from 2003-05. He posted a 79-54-10-17 record with Hamilton.
Jarvis will serve as the club’s third assistant coach, joining Doug Houda and Geoff Ward. Houda is expected to move from his role up in the press box to take over Ramsay’s duties on the bench working with the defense, while Jarvis will move into Houda’s former post in the press box.
Jarvis was also an assistant in the Stars organization in both Minnesota and Dallas for 14 seasons from 1988-2002, winning the Stanley Cup in 1999. He also won four Cups as a player, all in the first four seasons of his career with the Canadiens from 1976-79. In 13 seasons with Montreal, Washington and Hartford, he finished with 139-264-403 totals and played an NHL record 964 consecutive games, never missing a game in his career.
Like Ramsay, Jarvis won the Frank J. Selke Trophy, as he was honored as the NHL’s best defensive forward in 1983-84, one year before Ramsay took home the trophy in 1984-85. Jarvis, a Brantford, Ont., native, also won the Bill Masterton Trophy in 1987 for exemplifying the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to the sport of hockey.
Jarvis and Julien are scheduled to speak with the media in a conference call Wednesday afternoon.
