Hockey Operations Archive


Chris Gratton

November 8, 2024


Kedryn Orrison-Pilgrim

September 5, 2024

Brady Robinson

December 31, 2023





Joe Hurley

October 19, 2021

Jon Evans

September 2, 2021

John Snowden

January 4, 2019

John Snowden, 42, is in his second season with the Phantoms after spending the previous two seasons as an assistant coach with the Toronto Marlies. Snowden won the Kelly Cup head coach of the Newfoundland Growlers of the ECHL in 2019 after stepping in as head coach mid-season. He spent two seasons with Newfoundland following […]


Jason Smith

Jason Smith, 50, is in his fourth season as assistant coach with the Phantoms where he largely works with the team’s defenseman and penalty kill. A veteran of over 1,000 NHL games with the New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, and Ottawa Senators, Smith scored 41 goals and 128 assists for […]


Hockey Operations

October 23, 2017

Jake Rogers

August 11, 2017

Ian Laperriere

Ian Laperrière is in his fourth season as head coach of the Phantoms and is the 11th head coach in franchise history season since joining the American Hockey League as the Philadelphia Phantoms in 1996. Laperrière, 50, had been an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers for the previous eight seasons since 2013-14 and had […]


Bill Downey

Downey, 43, is in his fourth season as a Phantoms assistant coach and his ninth season as Director of Hockey Operations. In October, 2021 he was named as an Assistant Coach while continuing his duties as Director of Hockey Operations. A native of Pittsburgh, Downey spent four seasons as Director of Hockey Operations at Penn […]