MOSCOW, Sep 12 Canadian coach Bob Hartley will become a consultant to the Omsk hockey academy » Avangard,” according to the club’s Telegram channel. In April, Hartley announced at a press conference that he was leaving the position of head coach of Avangard, which he had held since May 2018. Under the leadership of Hartley, the Omsk club reached the Gagarin Cup final twice, becoming the owner of the trophy in the 2020/21 season. In the playoffs of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) last season, Avangard reached the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference, where they lost to Metallurg Magnitogorsk in a best-of-four series with a score of 3-4. «It's so cool to be in Omsk again, I'm happy to be back here I'm looking forward to meeting you again, hockey fans with whom we haven't seen each other for so long. I'm happy to be here,» Hartley quoted the Avangard YouTube channel as saying.
