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As the 2016-17 season grows ever closer, the Las Vegas expansion franchise continues to add to their front office staff – and that now includes Bob Lowes, who will come on board as assistant director of player personnel.

Drafted in the tenth round of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers, Lowes – a native of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan – would ultimately skate out in zero NHL games before hanging up his skates. After one year of split between the Prince Albert Raiders and the Regina Pats of the WHL, he skated out in one final season of major junior, serving as captain of the Pats, then stayed off the ice in 1984-85 before playing his final season of hockey with the University of Manitoba before hanging up his skates.

Upon retiring, the 53-year-old former center (who spent his inactive 1984-85 season as an assistant coach in Regina) moved to become a head coach in the SJHL, then the WHL.

He spent another stint with the Pats from 2001-2004 as a head coach, but spent most of his pre-pro coaching career working with the Brandon Wheat Kings of the WHL; all in all, he would oversee the team as head coach from 1992-2001, and then returned to the team as a scout from 2005-2007.

From there, he moved to work with the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, where he worked as a scout in the amateur scouting department from 2007 until the present. For the last two seasons, he has served as Director of Amateur Scouting.

The Las Vegas club will play their first season in 2017-18.

Las Vegas hires Bob Lowes as assistant director of player personnel