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Pittsburgh Penguins Confirm Hires For Scouting, Analytics Departments

August 29, 2023 at 11:33 am CDT | by Josh Erickson Leave a Comment

The Pittsburgh Penguins have announced the hiring of Mark Osiecki and Matthew Lorito as professional scouts and Robbie Sandland and Brandon DeFazio as amateur scouts. The team also confirmed the previously reported appointment of Cam Charron as a hockey research and development analyst.

Osiecki is a seasoned coach with almost three decades of experience at various levels. Hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, Osiecki’s coaching journey spans the AHL, USHL and NCAA. He’d spent the past seven seasons as an associate coach at the University of Wisconsin. He’s also had stints coaching at Ohio State University, the University of North Dakota, and the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs. In 2015, he was the head coach for the United States at the World Juniors, but a star-studded team led by Jack Eichel, Dylan Larkin and Auston Matthews lost in the quarterfinal round. Per the Penguins, he will focus on scouting professional organizations in the mid-western United States.

For Lorito, this is his first front-office role after retiring from pro hockey earlier this summer. He’d spent the 2022-23 campaign in Germany with the DEL’s Grizzlys Wolfsburg, recording five points in 18 games. He does have two NHL appearances to his name, both coming with the Detroit Red Wings in the 2016-17 season. Suiting up mostly in the AHL over his nine-year pro career, Lorito also made stops in the KHL and SHL during the 2021-22 season.

Sandland had spent the last four seasons in high-ranking executive roles for the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers, serving as their director of player personnel before earning a promotion to an assistant GM role before last season. He’d helped steer the Blazers to a division title and a Conference Finals appearance, and Pittsburgh will now rely on him to help identify promising amateur players in the Pacific Northwestern United States and Western Canada, a region with which he has obvious familiarity.

DeFazio also comes to the Penguins after concluding his pro career last season, a 13-year stint that spanned the NHL, AHL, ECHL, KHL, Liiga, and DEL. The Penguins were his first stop as an undrafted free agent after four years at Clarkson University, playing his first full pro season in the minors with AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in 2011-12. He would make his NHL debut for the Vancouver Canucks in 2014-15, playing two games before playing out the rest of his career in the minors and overseas. His focus will be on scouting amateur players in Ontario.

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