The 2020-21 professional hockey season has already gone down in the history books for a number of reasons — but thanks to the AHL’s Toronto Marlies, at least one of those reasons will be a good thing.
The Marlies announced on Friday morning that they had hired former Women’s Team Canada U18 equipment manager Steph Klein, who will become the first female equipment manager in men’s North American pro hockey.
A native of Canada, Klein worked with the University of Waterloo as an equipment manager from 2011-2017, when she made the jump to China to work with the Vanke Rays in women’s hockey.