Kevin Kerr (ice hockey)

Kevin Kerr (born September 18, 1967 in North Bay, Ontario) is a retired professional hockey player and former head coach of the Flint Generals of the United/International Hockey League. Kerr was drafted in Round 3, 56th overall of the 1986 NHL Draft by the Buffalo Sabres.

On February 4, 2015, Kerr was named the inaugural head coach of the Macon Mayhem of the Southern Professional Hockey League.[1] The club played their first game in October 2015. In his second season as Macon's head coach he won the SPHL's coach of the year,[2] and went on to win the league championship, giving Macon its first professional sports title since the 1962 Macon Peaches baseball team.[3] He left the Mayhem after the 2017–18 season[4] and was named the head coach of the Greenville Swamp Rabbits in the ECHL.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.macon.com/2015/02/04/3568263/macon-mayhem-hire-first-head-coach.html
  2. ↑ "Macon's Kevin Kerr named SPHL Coach of the Year". SPHL. April 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Raising Mayhem: Macon brings home SPHL title". macon. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  4. ↑ "Kevin Kerr steps down from Mayhem, accepting coaching opportunity". SPHL. May 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Kevin Kerr Takes Over as Swamp Rabbits Head Coach". Greenville Swamp Rabbits. May 23, 2018.


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