Steve McCarthy, Assistant Coach

Steve McCarthy joined the Columbus Blue Jackets coaching staff as an assistant coach on Sept. 13, 2021 after spending the previous five seasons as an assistant coach with the American Hockey League's Cleveland Monsters.

Prior to joining the Monsters staff, he enjoyed a 16-year playing career that included eight NHL seasons between 1999-2008. Selected by Chicago in the first round, 23rd overall, in the 1999 NHL Draft, he registered 17 goals and 38 assists for 55 points with 168 penalty minutes in 302 career NHL games with the Chicago Blackhawks, Vancouver Canucks and Atlanta Thrashers.

The Trail, British Columbia native played seven seasons in the AHL, including his final season in 2015-16 with the Monsters, and spent several years in Europe with stints with ZSC Lions in Switzerland, TPS in Finland and Salavat Yulaev Ufa in Russia's KHL. Before turning pro, he played three-plus seasons with the Edmonton/Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League from 1997-00, earning WHL East First All-Star Team honors with Kootenay in his final season. He also won a pair of bronze medals for Canada at the 2000 and 2001 IIHF World Junior Championships.

McCarthy and his wife, Melissa, are the parents to a daughter, Morgan, and son, Jack.