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Brian Maloney – Head Coach & General Manager

The 2024-2025 season is Brian’s ninth season as a member of the Chiefs coaching staff. He spent two seasons as an assistant coach before taking over as full-time Associate Head Coach and Associate General Manager. On May 3, 2018 he was named Head Coach and General Manager.

Brian spent a season and a half in a Chiefs uniform after joining the team on January 10, 1997. In 87 regular season games with the Chiefs, he scored 44 goals and added 87 assists. In his final season, he served as the team’s captain and led the Chiefs to their second appearance the BCHL Final, where they fell in five games to the Vernon Vipers.

After accepting a four-year scholarship to Michigan State University, Maloney played pro hockey in various locations for 11 seasons, including stops in the American Hockey League with Binghamton and Chicago. He retired as a player after the 2013-14 season, his seventh in Germany.

Matt Revel -Assistant Coach & Assistant General Manager

Matt has coaching experience as head coach of the Yale Lions U17 prep team in the 25, 26 season. Prior to that he was assistant coach for the University of British Columbia Men’s Hockey team (U Sports) for two seasons from 23-25. He started his coaching career with the Vancouver Thunderbirds MHA at the U15 Tier 1 level during the 2020-21 season.
Revel has also added experience as a guest coach at the Portland Winterhawks training camp, and Colorado Avalanche development camp. 
Revel played five seasons in the WHL from 2012-2017, split between the Saskatoon Blades, Kamloops Blazers and Portland Winterhawks. He then went on to play for the University of British Columbia Men’s Hockey team (U Sports) from 2017-2022, and played one season in Austria with the Pioneers Vorarlberg of the International Central European Hockey League (ICEHL) during the 2022-23 season.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

Connor Sanvido – Assistant Coach

Max Wiebe- Video Coach

Max Wiebe grew up playing 11 years of minor hockey in Chilliwack at various levels. He spent the past two seasons coaching minor hockey in Hope, BC, continuing his passion for the game and giving back to the local hockey community.

Away from the rink, Max enjoys mountain biking and cars. He also has a strong connection to the Chilliwack Chiefs, as his family has been a billet family for the organization for the past 11 seasons.

Kent Vo – Athletic Therapist

Nolan Bowker- Equipment Manager

Entering his 2nd season as Chiefs head equipment manager, the Maple Ridge, BC native brings over 600 regular season games of experience, across the BCHL, ECHL, AHL, USPORTS, and a brief stint with the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. During the summers, you’ll find Nolan working alongside Toronto Blue Jays prospects, as the Vancouver Canadians home clubhouse manager.

Nolan resides in Langley, with his partner Carly, son Kayson and family dog Barklee.

Brian Gillespie – Assistant Equipment Manager

Brian Gillespie serves as the Chilliwack Chiefs Assistant Equipment Manager.

Gillespie is an extremely respected member of the Chilliwack sports community as a co-owner of Cheam Source for Sports. Known in the community for his generosity, he also is extremely active with Chilliwack Minor Hockey and Chilliwack Minor Baseball.

When not at a sporting event, Gillespie loves to spend time with his wife Stephanie and son Cohen.

Matthew Benjamin- Locker Room Assistant

Matthew, aka ”Matty”, is the Chiefs Bench Assistant Volunteer. Originally from Courtney B.C. on Vancouver Island, he moved to Chilliwack in 2001 and has been a Chiefs fan for 17 years. His favourite sports are football (BC Lions), Hockey (Vancouver Canucks & Chilliwack Chiefs), Auto Racing (NASCAR), and Special Olympics Swimming. In his spare time, he likes to travel and explore the world.

Eric Williams – Goalie Consultant

Eric Williams is the current goalie consultant for the Chilliwack Chiefs.
He also goalie coaches for multiple programs in the CSSHL and BCEHL as the top development leagues in BC as well as leads the BC division of Assertion Goaltending Consultants.
Eric has been a full time goalie coach for the last 7 years and continues to work at all levels of the game building through grass root development in numerous local minor hockey associations. Before his coaching career, Eric played in the WHL for 4 years splitting time between the Prince Albert Raiders and Spokane Chiefs. Eric played a brief period in the ECHL with the Colorado Eagles before finishing his playing career at the University of British Columbia.