Johnston back with AAA Stars as spring camp on horizon
Norm Johnston will be back behind the bench of the Battlefords AAA Stars for the 2018-19 season, however, assistant coach Lee Ulmer will not.
The AAA Stars board made the decision to bring back Johnston not long after their season ended in February.
Despite missing the playoffs and being the second-most penalized team in the league, the board felt they and Johnston were on the same page on a number of different fronts.
“We just felt the stability and the plan he had laid out for our organization — some of the things he felt we needed to do going forward — fit well with what we thought,” AAA Stars chairperson Bruce Yockey said. “We talked about some of the things that we felt needed to be addressed and he totally agreed. Matter of fact, he probably named those things before we did.”