For his 34th NHL season, Mitch returns to the Nashville Predators as “Director of Goaltending” after 6 seasons with the NY Islanders. Prior, Korn spent 4 years with the Wash. Capitals, 16 seasons with Nashville and 7 seasons with the Buffalo Sabres. Korn was a Stanley Cup Champion with the Caps in 2018.
His hard work, superb communication skills, ability to “dissect" a goalie’s game, and great sense of humor have gained him the respect and friendship of those he has coached and worked with at all levels. In 2010, “The Hockey News” chose Mitch as “one of the top 10 Genius’ in hockey”.
With Illya Sorokin’s nomination in 2023 and Braden Holtby’s earning of the 2016 Vezina Trophy, it marked the 10th goalie nomination and 5th awarded Vezina for Korn as coach or director. Dominik Hasek also won 2 MVP Hart trophies under Korn. He is the only coach in NHL history to coach a goaltender to a Vezina Trophy with two different teams (Buffalo, Washington) and to have earned 3 Jennings Trophies (fewest goals against) with 3 different teams (Buffalo, Washington, NY Islanders).
Fondly referred to as “Children of the Korn” (a phrase coined by current Nashville GM Barry Trotz) these current and former goalies (many of whom are now coaching) have benefited from and helped spread the “goalie gospel according to Mitch”.
Mitch has coached many present and former pro goalies including Semyon Varlomov, Ilya Sorokin, Cory Schneider, Thomas Greiss, Chris Gibson, Henrik Tikkanen, Braden Holtby, Philipp Grubauer, Vitek Vanecek, Robin Lehner, Pekka Rinne, Carter Hutton, Devin Dubnyk, Scott Darling, Pheonix Copley, Parker Milner, Mike McKenna, Chris Mason, Dan Ellis, Marty Biron, Dominik Hasek, and Tomas Vokoun, (to name some) along with present goalies in the Pred’s organization.
Mitch has coached and influenced many others who have (in the past) or who are currently coaching professionally. Some include: Ben Vanderklok (Nashville), Scott Murray (Wash.), Steve Briere (Seattle), Alex Westlund (Detroit), Wade Flaherty (Winnipeg), Justin Peters (Ottawa), Mike Bales (Buffalo), Olaf Kolzig (dev. for Wash.), Mike Dunham (AHL for Boston), Drew McIntyre (AHL for Winnipeg), Seamus Kotyk (AHL for Buffalo), Karel Popper (dev. for Pitts.), Dan Ellis (dev. for Chicago), Karl Goehring (North Dakota), Cam Doomany (St. Lawrence), Eric Sorenson (Lowell), Kevin Delamarter (OHL Saginaw), Jan Lasak (Slovakia), Grant Fuhr (formerly Phoenix), Corey Hirsch (formerly St. Louis), Mike Valley (formerly Dallas), and Clint Malarchuk (formerly Calgary)
In addition, Mitch has trained countless others who now are in the "hockey business" coaching goalies and others, scouting and training a "new generation" of goaltenders/players at various levels. Some include Nick Petraglia, Chris Economou, Justin Camuto, Justin Goldman, Nick Johnsen, Bob Janosz, Bill Pye, Jerome Bergquist, Robb Stauber, Cody Osborne, Dillon Caffrey, Andrew Furbush, Laura Pecchia, Bill Horn, Jim Stanaway, Nick Blanchette, Paul Trochin, Rob Spolar, Kevin Kreutzer, Rich Shulmistra, Dan Kodatsky, Tom Sullivan, Bo Kisch, Trey Dill, Alvin Dow, etc. Mitch is truly a teacher and a mentor.
Mitch has over 45 years of organizing and running summer hockey programs and is personally deeply involved in each Camp. He is absolutely “hands on”.
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