
The Rangers will add Dan Muse and Phil Housley to the coaching staff as assistants to Peter Laviolette, The Post has learned.
Housley, whose addition was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by The Post, worked as an assistant under Laviolette for three years with the Predators.
Housley became head coach of the Sabres, the organization that made the defenseman and 2015 Hockey Hall of Fame selection a first-round pick in 1982, in 2017.
He guided Buffalo to two losing seasons and a combined 138 points.
After the Sabres fired him in 2019, Housley worked on the Coyotes’ staff as an assistant through the 2021-22 campaign, when he and the team parted ways.
Muse, who will turn 41 next month, coached Team USA to the gold medal in the IIHF Under-18 World Championships in Switzerland this April in his third year as head coach with the National Team Development Program.
Prior to that, Muse spent three years as an assistant coach with the Predators, with Laviolette as head coach.
Muse previously served as head coach for the USHL Chicago Steel for two years after six years as an assistant or associate coach for Yale University.
It is not known what specific role Muse, who won championships with Chicago Steel and at Yale, will be assigned with the Rangers.
The Blueshirts are also expected to name Michael Peca as an assistant to the staff.
It is unclear whether Kevin McCarthy, Laviolette’s long-time assistant through tours in Philadelphia, Nashville and Washington, will be part of it here.
Goaltending coach Benoit Allaire and skills coach Mark Ciaccio are holdovers from Gerard Gallant’s regime.
are holdovers from Gerard Gallant’s regime.
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