{"id":98976,"date":"2025-08-21T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98976\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:10:08","slug":"fast-hired-by-hurricanes-as-development-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98976\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast hired by Hurricanes as development coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jesper-fast-8475855\" title=\"Jesper Fast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesper Fast<\/a> was hired as a development coach by the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old announced his retirement from the NHL on June 2. A forward, Fast did not play for the Hurricanes last season after having neck surgery Aug. 6, 2024. He was injured in Carolina&#8217;s 2023-24 regular-season finale against the Columbus Blue Jackets on April 16, 2024, a 6-3 loss at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Fast was to become an unrestricted free agent July 1. He had 248 points (91 goals, 157 assists) in 703 regular-season games over 11 seasons with the New York Rangers and Hurricanes, and 27 points (14 goals, 13 assists) in 80 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Rangers in the sixth round (No. 157) of the 2010 NHL Draft, Fast scored a team-high six playoff goals in 2023 during Carolina\u2019s run to the Eastern Conference Final, a four-game loss to the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes play their season opener Oct. 9 against the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesper Fast was hired as a development coach by the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday. The 33-year-old announced his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-98976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}