Burt also helped develop young talent that advanced to play in the National Hockey League, including 2021 World Champion Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Los Angeles Kings), 2020 World Junior Champion and 2021 NHL All-Rookie selection Ty Smith (New Jersey Devils), and two-time World Junior Championship bronze medalist and AHL All-Star Kailer Yamamoto (Edmondton Oilers). He helped the Chiefs to playoff appearances in five of his six seasons on the bench, advancing as far as the Western Conference Finals in 2019. With Spokane, Burt coached alongside Don Nachbaur, a former Assistant Coach with the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, and Dan Lambert, current Assistant Coach of the NHL’s Nashville Predators. Prior to joining the Steelheads, Burt served six seasons in the major-junior level as the Assistant Coach of the Western Hockey League’s Spokane Chiefs. That year, Idaho was one of only seven teams in the entire ECHL to amass 20 or more wins on home ice.

In his lone coaching season in Boise in 2019-20, he helped guide the Steelheads to a 36-18-3-4 record in 61 games prior to the season’s conclusion due to Covid-19. Burt becomes the fourth person to assume the mantle as the team enters its 14 th season of hockey this October.įans can meet Coach Burt for the first time at the team’s annual “Select-A-Seat” event at Monument Ice Arena from 11am-1pm.īurt takes over as bench boss for the Rush following a season as the Assistant Coach of the division rival Idaho Steelheads alongside Everett Sheen.

The Rapid City Rush, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes, are excited to announce that Scott Burt has been named the team’s Head Coach/Director of Hockey Operations.

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