Colorado Eagles promote Kim Weiss to assistant coach

Kim Weiss was promoted to assistant coach of the Colorado Eagles, the Avalanche’s AHL affiliate, in a move announced Jan. 16, 2026. At 36, Weiss becomes only the second woman to serve as a full-time assistant coach in the American Hockey League, following Jessica Campbell, and her elevation signals continued shifts in who works behind professional benches.

Weiss joined the Eagles in August 2024 as a video coach and spent the last 17 months building familiarity with the organization’s systems, prospects and analytics workflows. That background has practical value for a club so focused on development; video coaches translate game tape into targeted corrections, scouting intel and matchup strategies that directly affect daily practices and in-game adjustments. Moving Weiss into a hands-on role on the bench expands the staff’s ability to rotate tactical responsibilities and keeps a coach intimately familiar with the organization’s review processes close to on-ice implementation.

The club positioned the promotion as an internal advancement rather than an external hire, folding someone who already knows the Avalanche-Eagles pipeline into the core coaching group. The announcement said Weiss will join the Eagles’ existing coaching staff and take on responsibilities that bridge video analysis and on-ice player development. Team management praised her contributions and readiness for an expanded role, pointing to her quick transition from video work to full-time coaching duties.

For players and prospects, Weiss’s promotion matters in concrete ways. Younger call-ups who have worked with her in video sessions now see continuity between what they review in the rink’s viewing room and the coaching cues they get on the ice. That continuity can accelerate polish in areas like defensive zone reads, line changes, and special-teams recognition when game clips and practice instruction align under the same staff voice.

For the local fan base and the hockey community, Weiss’s advancement is another incremental but meaningful sign that professional clubs are widening pathways into coaching roles. It also offers a visible example for women pursuing technical and tactical careers in hockey—paths that increasingly lead from video rooms and analytics desks to the bench.

What comes next is measurable: how Weiss’s presence alters player minutes, unit performance and in-game adjustments as the Eagles push through the second half of the season. For supporters tracking Colorado’s prospect pipeline, the immediate payoff will be in closer collaboration between analysis and execution, and a staff configuration that reflects the organization’s development priorities.