{"id":1602,"date":"2013-04-23T13:35:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2013-04-30T15:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:26:27","slug":"tigers-hire-new-associate-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/tigers-hire-new-associate-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers hire new associate coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Aurora Tigers Junior A hockey club has announced Tomas Milne has been hired as an associate coach and will immediately join the team in preparation of the upcoming 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n

Milne has been coaching the York-Simcoe AAA minor midget hockey team and running his Aurora based business, Raised Edge Inc.<\/p>\n

The Aurora native has a past coaching with the Tigers, running the team\u2019s defense during its Royal Bank Cup winning season in 2004.<\/p>\n

Milne said he is excited to be back in fold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great. The last time I was with the Tigers was almost 10 years ago when we won the Royal Bank Cup,\u201d he said. \u201cJR [James Richmond] approached me recently, asked if I would be interested and we sat down and chatted over the last couple days and we came to an agreement and I\u2019m going to be named associate coach and I\u2019m going to run the defense, so I\u2019m pretty happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Milne joins head coach Richmond and assistants Mike Doyle and John Ceci on the bench and said he has already started recruiting players for next season.<\/p>\n

Richmond said Milne is a great fit for the Tigers looking to shore up their defensive system for next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were looking to get a guy that\u2019s been with Aurora, is from Aurora and he\u2019s won the RBC with Aurora before,\u201d said Richmond. \u201cHe\u2019s comfortable running the defense and he knows the minor league players well with the background he\u2019s got.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richmond added he has a past working with Milne (recently as coaches with the under-17 program) and knows what he brings to the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some history there between he and I and he really wanted to come on board, so it was a great fit for us. It\u2019s great that he\u2019s coming on board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Milne also has extensive background with recruitment and developing young players, which will also help the Tigers in the long run.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s really good at developing young guys,\u201d said Richmond. \u201cHe seems to be best at running the defense and that\u2019s a hole that we needed to fill.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner The Aurora Tigers Junior A hockey club has announced Tomas Milne has been hired as an associate coach and will immediately join the team in preparation of the upcoming 2013-14 season. Milne has been coaching the York-Simcoe AAA minor midget hockey team and running his Aurora based business, Raised Edge Inc. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-pQ","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 07:32:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}