Campbell helped the Firebirds attain the Calder Cup Remaining in its inaugural season in 2022-23 and once more this previous season. She coached on-ice periods at Kraken coaching camp and was the primary girl to teach on the 2022 IIHF World Championship when she was an assistant for Germany, a group that included Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer.
“There was a second once I realized that I used to be teaching NHL gamers on our group and competing towards NHL gamers,” Campbell advised the Kraken web site the day she was employed by Coachella Valley. “My phrases had been welcomed, and I used to be revered. I noticed I can do that.”
Campbell started her hockey profession as a toddler enjoying with and towards boys in her hometown of Rocanville, Saskatchewan, the place ladies hockey wasn’t an possibility for her on the time. She performed 4 seasons as a ahead at Cornell College, and professionally for Calgary of the Canadian Girls’s Hockey League and Malmo of the Swedish Girls’s Hockey League. She additionally skated for silver-medal successful Canada on the 2015 IIHF Girls’s World Championship.
“It is nice for Jessica,” Maple Leafs assistant common supervisor Hayley Wickenheiser stated. “A very long time in the past we performed collectively somewhat bit. I do know she’s put in her time within the American League. She clearly has the respect of the employees in Seattle and when you’ve got that familiarity and consistency, she’s earned it. It is nice for the sport.”
Following Campbell’s enjoying profession, she began working as a skating and abilities coach. That launched her on a training profession that has taken her again to Malmo, Tri-Metropolis of the USA Hockey League and Nurnberg of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, she instructed a bunch of NHL veterans in Kelowna, British Columbia, together with defenseman Luke Schenn (Nashville Predators), forwards Tyson Jost (Carolina Hurricanes) and Mathew Barzal (New York Islanders), and former Predators captain Shea Weber.
