Coach Yan Kaminsky

Youth Hockey Director

Coach Yan leads the Madhatters as one of the most experienced player development coaches in the Southeast. With over 20 years of coaching and leading youth teams aged 12-18 to multiple national championships and advancing countless players to the highest levels of hockey in the country, Coach Yan’s professional playing career includes an induction into the Russian Hockey Hall of Fame, two gold and one silver medal, a World Championship with the Russian National Team, and a successful NHL career with the Winnipeg Jets and the New York Islanders after being drafted 99th overall in the 1991 NHL Draft.