Jeff Malcolm takes over for Benoit Allaire as Rangers goaltending coach, per source
Jeff Malcolm plays for the Rangers in an NHL preseason game in Boston on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. Credit: AP/Winslow Townson
Fine-tuning Rangers goalies Igor Shesterkin and Jonathan Quick on a day-to-day basis is now Jeff Malcolm’s job.
The Rangers, per an NHL source, have promoted their AHL goalie coach to succeed Benoit Allaire, who retains his role as the organization’s director of goaltending after stepping back from day-to-day duties.
Malcolm, 35, who backstopped Yale to the NCAA title in 2013 as a senior, spent the previous three seasons as Hartford’s goalie coach. Prior to that, he served three years as a goalie consultant with the organization.
Also, per an NHL source, Brendan Burke, the son of longtime NHL goalie Sean Burke, is Hartford’s new goalie coach.
Malcolm has worked closely with Allaire, who first joined the Rangers as goalie coach in 2004, over the past six seasons and stepped in for him for a stint in 2022-23 while Allaire was on medical leave.
Both Shesterkin and Henrik Lundqvist won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goalie under Allaire’s tutelage. He was the only constant on the Rangers coaching staff under bench bosses Tom Renney, John Tortorella, Alain Vigneault, David Quinn, Gerard Gallant and Peter Laviolette.
General manager Chris Drury added director of goaltending to Allaire’s job description in 2021. Allaire also worked with Sean Burke during his time with the Coyotes prior to joining the Rangers.
Malcolm spent four seasons playing for Hartford and the Rangers’ ECHL affiliate in Greenville from 2013-17 before turning to coaching.
Brendan Burke, 29, a sixth-round pick of the Coyotes in 2013 who did not make it to the NHL, served the past two seasons as both the goalie coach for the junior hockey Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League and as the goalie director of the Junior Coyotes program.
Andrew Gross joined Newsday in 2018 to cover the Islanders. He began reporting on the NHL in 2003 and has previously covered the Rangers and Devils. Other assignments have included the Jets, St. John’s and MLB.
