Arizona State University has reached a mutual agreement to part ways with hockey coach Greg Powers. The university and Sun Devil Athletics are grateful for Coach Powers’ work to establish ASU as a Division I hockey program and for his service over the past nearly two decades.

ASU Athletics Director Graham Rossini also announced that the university has hired Dave Hakstol as the new head coach for Sun Devil hockey. Hakstol, 58, brings more than three decades of coaching experience across the collegiate, professional and junior hockey levels. His resume includes 11 seasons as head coach at the University of North Dakota, where he led the program to seven Frozen Four appearances, four conference tournament titles, three regular season conference titles; he was twice named conference coach of the year. Hakstol also spent seven seasons as head coach of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers and Seattle Kraken, leading both clubs to the NHL playoffs. Until this week, Hakstol was an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche. Rossini expressed his gratitude to Avalanche team president, Joe Sakic, for the courtesy extended to ASU throughout this accelerated process.

Hakstol is hiring Matt Greene, most recently with the Los Angeles Kings and a former NHL player with 12 seasons in the league and six years on the Kings hockey operations and coaching staff, to be an assistant and will retain current ASU hockey assistant coach Jimmy Mullin. Hakstol and Greene will immediately join the team this weekend for games against UMass Lowell.