Scott Ford, Assistant Coach

Scott Ford was hired as an assistant coach by the Blue Jackets on Aug. 8, 2024.

Ford, 44, joins the Blue Jackets after spending the past eight seasons as an assistant coach with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals. Prior to that, he enjoyed an 11-year professional playing career in the AHL and ECHL. A defenseman, he registered 18 goals and 47 assists for 65 points with 762 penalty minutes in 522 career AHL games with the Admirals, Peoria Rivermen, Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Providence Bruins and Cleveland Barons between 2005-15.

A native of Fort St. John, British Columbia, he played for Blue Jackets head coach Dean Evason in Milwaukee from 2012-15 and served as his team’s captain in three of his final four pro seasons. He was then an assistant coach on Evason’s Admirals staff from 2015-18. Prior to his professional career, he played four seasons at Brown University from 2000-04.