Color of Hockey: Etem eager to start next phase of career

[doniceage]

A knee injury robbed Emerson Etem of the breakaway speed that helped make him an NHL first-round draft pick. It hasn't diminished his love for the game.

More than a year after announcing his retirement as a player, Etem is back in the game as coach of Missoula of the North American 3 Hockey League, a Tier III junior team in western Montana.

The city of 74,000 along the Clark Fork River is a long way from Long Beach, California, where Etem was raised, and the Junior Bruins he's coaching are a few rungs below the Anaheim Ducks, who selected him in the first round (No. 29) of the 2010 NHL Draft. But the 28-year-old rookie coach said he's enjoying taking on a new challenge.

https://www.nhl.com/news/color-of-ho...am/c-318790632

[creasecollector]

Wishing him all the best in his coaching career !