NEW YORK — The New York Rangers have employed Hockey Hall of Famer Angela Ruggiero as a hockey operations adviser.

The staff introduced the addition of Ruggiero on Friday together with a number of entrance workplace adjustments.

Ruggiero, 43, received 4 Olympic medals as a defenseman for the U.S. She helped the nation win gold on the 1998 Games in Nagano - the primary Olympics with girls’s hockey - adopted by silver in 2002 and 2010 and bronze in 2006.

The Michigan native skated 15 years with the nationwide staff, placing up 58 factors in 61 worldwide video games. Ruggiero was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.

The Rangers additionally promoted former NHL ahead Ryane Clowe to co-senior adviser to the president and common supervisor Chris Drury and employed retired defenseman Paul Mara as participant growth assistant.

Andy Hosler was employed as head athletic coach. Hosler returns to the league after two years at Michigan State to succeed longtime coach Jim Ramsay, who had labored in that position because the mid-Nineties.

Hosler beforehand spent 14 years with the Nashville Predators, together with 2013-21 as their head coach.

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