Sparre, 38, most recently spent three years as an assistant coach with the AHL’s San Diego Gulls and previously coached in the OHL and with Austria’s top professional league.

Sparre’s experience in the AHL seen as plus during interview process. Before coming to Boston, Sparre was an assistant coach in the American Hockey League for three years with the San Diego Gulls.

WELLESLEY, Mass. — The Boston Fleet have hired Kris Sparre as the second head coach in the PWHL franchise’s history. Sparre, a 38-year-old veteran assistant with no experience in the women’s ...

But Sparre did make one promise. “When you watch the way the Boston Fleet play this year, it’s going to be a very, very aggressive style of hockey and a suffocating style of hockey,” Sparre ...