Blum named to Saginaw coaching staff

The Saginaw Spirit have announced that the team has hired Jeff Blum to assume an assistant coaching position with the team.

With this appointment, the Spirit also confirm that George Daniel will not be returning for the 2012-13 season as an assistant coach.

Blum’s duties will primarily center on working with the Spirit’s defense corps and he will join fellow assistant John Kisil and head coach Greg Gilbert on the bench this season.

Following a career that spanned four years at the University of Illinois-Chicago where he captained his collegiate team, the Warren native spent parts of five seasons in the Colonial, International and United Hockey Leagues.