Seattle Kraken has a new head coach: Dan Bylsma

The Seattle Kraken announced Tuesday that the hockey team has hired Dan Bylsma to be its next head coach.

"I've witnessed the path the organization is on, the young players coming into the organization, the drafts that have happened, there are a lot of great players coming down the pipe," Bylsma said during a press event Tuesday.

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"We have a great group of leaders, a great group of players, and they're a group that we can have a lot of success with down the road and build a championship organization."

The move comes a month after the organization fired head coach Dave Hakstol, and assistant coach Paul McFarland, marking a new direction for the Seattle team.

Bylsma still has some things to tie up with his current job coaching the Coachella Valley Firebirds in the American Hockey League. The Firebirds are the AHL affiliate of the Kraken, so Bylsma has already been working within the organization.

“Dan is a winner with a proven track record of developing both young and veteran talent, and his leadership will help our team as we move forward,” General Manager Ron Francis said in a statement.

“He has had success at every level, winning the Stanley Cup in 2009, earning a Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s top coach in 2011, and he led the Firebirds to Game 7 of the Calder Cup Finals last year in the team’s first season," Francis continued. "He knows our franchise and has worked with several of our NHL players. We are excited to have him behind the bench and guiding our team next season.”

The Kraken note that Francis interviewed "a number of other candidates with NHL experience" for the job.