Glasgow Clan: Former NHL player Jason Morgan becomes head coach following takeover

Jason Morgan (right) was in charge of Romanian side Csikszereda

Former National Hockey League player Jason Morgan has been appointed head coach and head of hockey operations by Glasgow Clan.

The 46-year-old coached Aalborg Pirates in Europe's top competition - the Champions Hockey League.

And the Canadian also won three play-off championships and two league titles in the Hungarian-Romanian Erste Liga.

Morgan expects Michael O'Rourke, who completed a takeover of the club five days ago, to provide "a fresh start".

"It is a very exciting time for the city, for the team and for myself to come in and give this organisation a fresh new look and a new start," he told BBC Scotland.

"I think they are going to give us the resources to definitely put a competitive team on the ice."

Morgan takes over from fellow Canadian Malcolm Cameron, who led Clan to the Elite Ice Hockey League quarter-finals.

"I never enter a season to put a label on a placement of where we are going to finish, but I definitely know we are going to have a competitive team and we are going to be exciting to watch and I expect great things out of our team," he said.

"When you back that with the tremendous fans support that I have heard are second to none, and such a beautiful city, I think it is a great recipe for success."

Morgan played for Los Angeles Kings, Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators, Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota Wild but spent most of his playing career in the lower American Hockey League as well as spells in Sweden, Austria and Norway.

As a coach, he has been in charge of Aalborg and Erste Liga clubs Jegesmedvek and Csikszereda.

O'Rourke, of Irish broadcasting company TDL Media, said the appointment comes after an "extensive search".

"From the outset of our search, we wanted to bring someone to the club that had previous coaching and hockey operations experience to compliment the team of people we already have in place," he added.

"Jason comes to the Clan following a highly impressive playing career in North America and Europe. Since hanging up his skates and moving into coaching, his success in the Erste Liga as well as coaching Aalborg in the Champions Hockey League has impressed us."