07/08/2018
Breaking: Assistant coach Metro departing Lakers
SAULT STE. MARIE — Laker Hockey Blog has learned that Lake Superior State assistant coach Rich Metro is set to accept a head coaching position at Shattuck-St. Mary’s Preparatory & Boarding School in Faribault, Minnesota.
Metro, 43, has served as an assistant coach for the Lakers over seven seasons in two different stints. He took a position as video coordinator under Jim Roque in 2007. The following season, he assumed the role of assistant coach.
In 2014, after coaching Villard-de-Lans in France (the same team for whom he played), the Sault Ste. Marie native returned to Lake Superior, working under then-new bench boss Damon Whitten.
More details to come.