Tinkering with the roster may be on hold until training camp opens on August 29, but the Lewiston Maineiacs continue to fiddle with things in the front office.

On Tuesday, the Maineiacs will introduce the newest piece to their coaching puzzle, assistant coach Jon Goyens.

"Early on, he'll be learning the video side of things, and he'll be involved in game planning during the season," Harding said. "Between he and Jeff (Guay, the Maineiacs' longtime assistant), they'll be able to handle a lot of the day-to-day things."

Goyens, 30, whose younger brother Nick played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League as recently as last season, is from the Ile-Bizard area of Quebec, just outside of Montreal, and he already has ties to some players who have worn Maineiacs' colors.

"I've known Stef Chaput since he was a little kid, he grew up playing with my brother," Goyens said.

Goyens has also coached Stefano Giliati and Chaput's younger brother, Michael, who is set to join the Maineiacs this season as a 16-year-old.

"I've been coaching essentially since I was 15," Goyens said. "I started coaching with my father, who's a hockey writer, and that gave me the coaching bug."

By the time Goyens was 25, he was coaching at the Midget AAA level and with the Midget Espoirs team in Lac St. Louis.

"I knew there that this is what I wanted to do, that I wanted to move up the ranks in coaching," Goyens said. "I wanted to be able to come home at night and say that hockey is what I do for a living, that it's my profession."

After interviewing with a few professional teams for a scouting job, Goyens got back in touch with Harding, whom he'd met in January at a midget tournament in Gatineau.

"We spoke again in April about the Q draft," Goyens said. "Certainly, coming from Quebec, the next level of coaching is in major junior hockey, like I'm sure college hockey would be if I'd grown up in the New England area."

Reg Bourcier, who last year coached the team's goalies and assisted with team video sessions and off-ice training, will stay on with the Maineiacs on a part-time basis, but will be based out of Canada. He'll continue to help with off-ice training and the goaltenders.

Another element Goyens adds to the team is a bilingual voice in the locker room. Goyens is fluent in French and English. Last year, none of the team's coaches spoke fluent French.

"It wasn't really an issue within the team as much as it was with the league offices," Harding said, "but we'd have (Maineiacs' President and Governor) Matt McKnight or even (team risk manager) Ron Guerin to help us out. But it does make sense, now, to have him come in with a full grasp of both languages."

The Maineiacs will open training camp on August 29. Goyens will get his first taste of Lewiston later this month, and have about a month to prepare for his first camp.

"I'm ready to get going," Goyens said. "I can't wait to get on the ice at training camp."