At Monday night’s board meeting, the Oahe Capitals would announce and hire Landon Badger as the new varsity head coach along with being named the new director of hockey.
Badger is an Oahe Capital alum graduating in 2016 and has been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame with the fourth most points in Capitals history at 233 and the third most goals at 144. Badger was part of the first South Dakota Hockey Hall of Fame class. He has been the JV coach for the last couple of seasons along with also being an assistant baseball coach for the high school baseball team in 2022. Badger takes over for Steve Steele, who had stepped down as both varsity head coach and hockey director at the end of the boys state tournament in the middle of March. Badger says it’s an exciting moment…
Badger says over the last couple of years being able to coach with the program has really been a benefit…
With the turnover of the roster with 13 seniors graduating, Badger likes the challenge of new faces stepping into new roles, but still familiar to the coaching staff…
As far as the coaching director side of it, Badger is looking forward to the connections he’ll make between all the levels of hockey…
Badger becomes to the third head coach of the boys varsity program since its inaugural year in 1999.
