THE COACHING GAME: The OHL’s Mississauga St. Michael's Majors have a vacancy after losing Jim Hulton to the NHL’s Florida Panthers. Hulton, the OHL team’s assistant general manager and co-coach, has signed with the Panthers as an assistant coach under new head coach Peter DeBoer. Hulton has extensive OHL coaching experience.
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THE MacBETH REPORT: F Kyle Wanvig (Edmonton/Kootenay/Red Deer) signed with Amur Khabarovsk (Continental Hockey League). Wanvig was with Norfolk (AHL) and also got into seven games with Tampa Bay last season. . . . D Ron Shudra (Kamloops) has signed to be player/head coach of the Sheffield Scimitars (English Premier League). He had seven goals and 14 assists in 39 games with Sheffield last season. This season will be Shudra’s 19th in England and the Scimitars’ website refers to him as “the greatest name in Sheffield ice hockey.”