Hockey Operations Staff

Carbery most recently spent the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach with the American Hockey League's Providence Bruins, helping the club to an impressive 45-26-3-2 record.

The native of Victoria, British Columbia has ties to the Chocolate and White, serving as the head coach and director of hockey operations for Hershey's ECHL affiliate, the South Carolina Stingrays, from 2011-2016. In his five seasons at the helm, Carbery compiled a 207-115-38 record with the Stingrays, making him the all-time winningest coach in South Carolina history.

Carbery was the winner of the John Brophy Award as the ECHL’s Coach of the Year in 2014, and was the runner-up for the award in 2015 and 2016. South Carolina qualified for the Kelly Cup Playoffs in each of Carbery’s five seasons as head coach, and he helped guide the Stingrays to a pair of division titles, and Eastern Conference Finals appearances in 2015 and 2016. Carbery’s 2014-15 team registered an ECHL-record 23-game win streak during the regular season and advanced to the 2015 Kelly Cup Finals, falling in seven games to the Allen Americans. In each of the five seasons under Carbery’s direction, the Stingrays improved their point total.

Carbery's ties to Hershey and Washington also include coaching multiple players who advanced in the organization, including three members of the 2018 Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals: Pheonix Copley, Philipp Grubauer, and Nathan Walker.

Carbery served as the head coach of the OHL's Saginaw Spirit in 2016-17, and also earned a nod as an assistant coach for Team Canada Black in the 2017 U-17 World Hockey Challenge, working with fellow assistant coach and former Hershey enforcer Louis Robitaille.

A forward, Carbery had a four-year professional playing career in the Central Hockey League and the ECHL before joining the coaching ranks. The graduate of St. Norbert College served as an alternate captain for South Carolina during his tenure with the club, and helped the Stingrays to a Kelly Cup title in 2009. Following the conclusion of his playing career, Carbery spent one season as an assistant coach with the Stingrays under former Bear Cail MacLean before being promoted to head coach in 2011.

Eastwood spent three seasons with the Ottawa 67's of the Ontario Hockey League, serving as an assistant coach in 2014-15 before being promoted to associate coach. In each of Eastwood's three years in Ottawa, the club qualified for the playoffs. With the 67's, Eastwood played a pivotal role in developing prospects, including current Philadelphia Flyers forward Travis Konecny, and Kody Clark, a 2018 second round draft selection of Washington.

The Ottawa, Ontario native played 13 seasons in the NHL from 1991-2004, scoring 236 points (87 goals, 149 assists) in 783 career games with Toronto, Winnipeg, Phoenix, the New York Rangers, St. Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. He also skated in 97 career playoff games, scoring 19 points.

The responsible, two-way center was known for his craft on faceoffs, and enjoyed his best season in 1999-2000 with St. Louis, a year in which he helped the Blues win the President's Trophy as the team that finished with the most regular season points in the NHL. That season, Eastwood collected a career-high 34 points (19 goals, 15 assists) in 79 games, on a Blues team that also featured both Helmer, as well as Todd Reirden, the new head coach of the Capitals, on the blue line.

A star player at Western Michigan University, Eastwood was originally drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 5th round in 1987. He spent two seasons with Toronto's American Hockey League affiliate, the St. John's Maple Leafs, including the 1992-93 campaign that saw Eastwood finish with 59 points.

Mike King is in charge of video breakdown and analysis, a component Hershey's coaching staff uses a great deal for instruction, development, and game planning. Along with video, King is also in charge of tracking the team's analytics on a game-to-game basis to help evaluate team and player performance. King assisted Hershey's coaching staff during the club's run to the Calder Cup Finals in 2016, and joined the staff full-time in 2016-17. In 2018, he joined the Washington for the club's playoff run, assisting the coaching staff as the Capitals won the Stanley Cup.

Prior to joining the Bears, King spent two seasons as a development coach with the Sudbury Wolves of the OHL where he assisted the coaching staff in helping develop players with the organization.

King was born in Conway, New Hampshire and currently resides in the Hershey area.

The New Jersey native joined the Washington organization after spending two seasons as the goalie coach with the DEL's Augsburg Panther Eishockey Club in Germany, in addition to working with Zagreb of the KHL. His resume also includes experience with USA Hockey, serving as the head goalie coach and evaluator for the New England District, being a member of the goalie evaluation group for the USA Hockey's Select 17 Festival, and participating in the prestigious Warren Strelow Camp.

In his playing career, Westlund appeared in over 750 professional games over the course of 16 seasons from 1999-2015. He spent time in the American Hockey League with the Worcester IceCats, Milwaukee Admirals, and Hartford Wolf Pack. A vast amount of his playing career was spent overseas, including four years with Linz EHC of the Austrian Erste Banke Eishockey Liga from 2008-12. He earned league MVP honors in 2010, and helped the club to its second league championship in 2012. In his career, Westlund was selected twice to represent his country. He won the Deutschland Cup as a member of Team USA in 2003, and played in the 2004 World Championships.

A graduate of Yale University, Westlund remains the all-time leader in games played (99) and saves (2,704) for the Bulldogs. He played at Yale from 1994-1999, and in 1998, he was named a NCAA 2nd Team All-American, and won the Ken Dryden Award as the ECAC's Goaltender of the Year.

Stuck became Hershey's assistant trainer in 1983, and then took a year away to become the assistant equipment manager for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers. The following season, in 1985-86, he was named Hershey's Head Trainer, a position he held until moving into a new role in 2018. The man they call "Beaker," has witnessed championships in 1987-88, 1996-97, 2005-06, 2008-09, and 2009-10 under John Paddock, Bob Hartley, Bruce Boudreau, Bob Woods, and Mark French. Stuck, one of the most decorated trainers in the league history, is a veteran of over 2,600 games and worked seven All-Star games.

Stuck's main responsibilities include working with the hockey operations staff to help maintain the rich tradition of Hershey Bears Hockey within the locker room with the players and coaches.

Stuck lives in Palmyra with his wife Janice. He has a son, Dustin, who is an assistant athletic trainer with the Providence Bruins, and daughter, Alexis.

Luatua's experience with the Bears extends back to his time with Pivot Physical Therapy where he served as a Certified Athletic Trainer starting in 2014. Working with former Washington head athletic trainer Greg Smith at Pivot, Luatua would travel to assist with Bears practices and games before joining the team full-time in 2016. In Sept. 2018, he was named Head Athletic Trainer.

Also at Pivot, he served as Head Athletic Trainer of Westminster High School. From 2012-14, Luatua worked at McDaniel College as the Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer. He received his Masters Degree from McDaniel College in 2014, and attended Bridgewater College for his Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training.

Luatua resides in York with his wife Megan and daughter Amelia.

A Hershey native, Wagner has experience working with the University of Maryland, Millersville University, and most recently Villanova University. Wagner has a Masters Degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion with a concentration in Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement. He resides in the Hershey area with his wife Katrina.

Carter has been around the Bears his whole life, and worked as a stickboy and locker room attendant for the Bears from the time he was 12 to his graduation from Elizabethtown High School in 2010. Carter is a 2013 graduate of California University of Pennsylvania, where played hockey for the Vulcans and served as their equipment manager.

He spent the 2013-14 season as an Assistant Equipment Manager for the Anaheim Ducks before returning to Hershey. His uncle, Doug "Sluggo" Shearer, is the equipment manager for the Anaheim Ducks and former equipment manager of the Washington Capitals (1983-2007) and Bears (1981-83).