One of the Swift Current Broncos' new assistant coaches has certainly led a career of diversity and development up to his most recent promotion to the WHL level.

Recently-hired assistant bench boss Scott Dutertre joins the Broncos staff, with multiple decades worth of skill development on his resume.

After his playing career, which included some time playing in the SJHL with the Weyburn Red Wings, Dutertre got into training and working with high-level athletes - hockey and football alike.

Dutertre moved into on-ice development at several levels and ages of hockey in the province. However, the chance to move behind the bench and up to the WHL was just a stepping stone in his career that he wasn't about to let slip by.

"I've been working in the skill development field for a long time - I've always worked with a lot of WHL kids and professional players," Dutertre said. "As I'm getting older and want to spend a little bit less time on the road travelling to teach, and getting an opportunity to be on the bench, this was definitely where I wanted to go. To have this opportunity here, I jumped at it."

Before Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Dean Brockman came calling, Dutertre's skill development and growth as a coach led him to a three-year stint with the University of Saskatchewan women's hockey team.

He did skill development and work with the men's hockey team as well, but Dutertre spent three years behind the bench as an assistant with the women's team.

What Dutertre calls a need to evolve, led him to branch out further.

"I wanted to try and learn as much of the trade as possible. I started in skill development, as I was doing that I was on the bench," he said. "We needed a video coach - our video coach couldn't make it to the national championship, and I have a background in film, so I learned the video coaching side of it. So, I learned all those different functions as a coach."

"I think it's just always important that you have to be evolving, and you have to constantly be learning in order to be effective."

Dutertre understandably feels that his ability to embrace change and develop young talent is perhaps his greatest asset in his role as assistant coach with the Broncos.

"The one benefit I had working at the university, we would see them in the games and then I could work on certain deficiencies I guess. If someone was having a hard time catching a puck on a backhand for example, then we could rep that kind of stuff and work on making them more effective so they can be more of an integral part of our lineup."

"I think using that, and then I like using the technology side of things, and I tend to use a lot of video, and just different ways to try to work with players. Dean's open to that, and again, I'm thrilled to be able to do that," Dutertre shared.

"It was such a rewarding thing for me personally, just to see them get in the lineup," he added. "Then, to not only get in the lineup, but start to affect what we do as a team. You empower that, and it's only going to create a better culture of compete within your team. Again, you're going to battle to get in the lineup, but overall it's going to make your team better as well."

Dutertre and fellow recently-hired assistant coach Brandin Cote will be at Broncos training camp later this month.

Listen to the full interview between voice of the Broncos Shawn Mullin, and Dutertre, listen to the full interview below: