A former member of the Utica Comets has gotten the call to move up to the New Jersey Devils. It isn’t a player, but rather last year’s associate coach, Sergei Brylin, who has been named by the NHL team as an assistant coach Thursday.

The Devils, the NHL parent club of the AHL’s Comets, announced Brylin is joining the staff of head coach Lindy Ruff. He is the final addition joining associate coach Andrew Brunette, assistant coaches Ryan McGill and Chris Taylor and goaltending coach Dave Rogalski.

The past nine seasons, the 48-year-old served as an assistant and associate coach for the Devils’ AHL affiliates in Albany (2012-13 to 2016-17), Binghamton (2017-18 to 2020-21) and Utica (2021-22). Last season, he helped lead the Comets to a North Division title and the best record in the Eastern Conference. Utica also set an AHL record when it began the campaign with 13 consecutive wins.

Brylin made his NHL debut as a plyer on Feb. 17, 1995, and spent his entire 13-season career through 2007-08 with New Jersey. He totaled 765 regular-season games, which ranks tenth in franchise history. He is one of five players to win three Stanley Cup Championships (1995, 2000, 2003) with New Jersey, along with Martin Brodeur, Ken Daneyko, Scott Niedermayer and Scott Stevens. The forward totaled 129 goals and 179 assists for 308 points over his NHL career, with career highs across the board in goals (23), assists (29) assists and points (52) in the 2000-01 season. Brylin also had an iron-man streak of 328 games, playing in all games from 2003-04 through 2007-08. It is the third-longest consecutive stretch in franchise history. Additionally, he earned 15 goals and 19 assists for 34 points in 109 career Stanley Cup Playoff games.