Claude Julien

Canada Claude Julien


Date of birth	April 23, 1960
place of birth	Blind River , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Right

Career stations

1977-1988	Newmarket Flyers Oshawa Generals
1978-1980	Windsor Spitfires
1980-1981	Port Huron flags
1981-1983	Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1983-1986	Fredericton Express
1986-1987	Paris Français valances
1987-1988	Baltimore Skipjacks Fredericton Express
1988-1990	Halifax Citadels
1990-1991	Kansas City Blades
1991-1992	Moncton Hawks

Claude Julien (born April 23, 1960 in Blind River , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey defender and current coach. Since February 2017 he has been the head coach of the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League .

Career

Claude Julien began his career in 1977 in the Canadian Junior League OHA with the Oshawa Generals , where he was only used eleven times in his first year. During the 1978/79 season he moved within the league to the Windsor Spitfires , where he was able to present his offensive qualities for the first time. In the 1979/80 season he scored 51 points in 68 games and moved the following season to the professional field to the Port Huron Flags from the International Hockey League .

After he was able to build on his good performances from the period in the juniors, it took the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League contract and Julien the next two years played at the Salt Lake Golden Eagles , the CHL - farm team of the Blues . In August 1983, the St. Louis Blues transferred him to the Québec Nordiques . Between 1984 and 1986 he was allowed to go on the ice 14 times for them, but otherwise he mainly played for the farm team, the Fredericton Express in the American Hockey League .

During the 1987/88 season he moved to league rivals Baltimore Skipjacks before he went to the Halifax Citadels in the summer of 1988 , where he played the best AHL season of his career with 60 points in 79 games. After another year in Halifax, Julien left the AHL and moved to the Kansas City Blades in the IHL. But after a year he returned and played his last season with the Moncton Hawks and then ended his career.

In 1996 Julien returned to ice hockey and took over the post as head coach of the Hull Olympiques from the Canadian junior league LHJMQ . In his first season he won the Coupe du Président and the Memorial Cup with the team . There followed two unsuccessful seasons before he led the team back to the playoffs in 1999/2000 .

Julien as the head coach of the Boston Bruins

In the summer of 2000, Claude Julien was hired to train the Hamilton Bulldogs , the AHL farm team of the Canadiens de Montréal . The first season the Bulldogs decided in penultimate place, but in the following season the team increased significantly and they moved into the third round of the playoffs. During the 2002–03 season , Julien had led the Bulldogs to 33 wins in 45 games when he was promoted to head coach of the Canadiens in January 2003. Without Julien, the Bulldogs made it to the Calder Cup final and although he had only coached the Bulldogs in 45 of the 80 league games, the AHL and his successor Geoff Ward honored him with the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award as the best coach of the season.

The Canadiens led Julien 2003/04 to 41 wins and thus into the playoffs, where they failed in the second round. After the playoff participation was in jeopardy for the Canadiens halfway through the 2005/06 season , Julien was fired.

In the summer of 2006 he received a contract with the New Jersey Devils . But although he won 47 of 79 games with the team and thus led the Devils to first place in the Atlantic Division and safe playoff participation, Julien was released only three games before the end of the regular season.

On June 21, 2007, Claude Julien was introduced as the new coach of the Boston Bruins . In his first season, he led the Bruins to eighth place in the Eastern Conference. In the play-offs, the Bruins lost a close series against the Canadiens. In the following year the Bruins won the Eastern Conference in the regular season. Julien received the Jack Adams Award for this achievement .

In the 2009/10 season Julien reached sixth place in the conference table with the Bruins and thus the play-offs. In the Conference Semifinals, the team lost 3: 4 after a 3-0 lead against the Philadelphia Flyers. In the following season the Bruins won their division and moved into the play-offs as third-placed in the Conference. In the 2010/11 season he won his first Stanley Cup as the head coach of the Bruins . He prevailed with his Bruins in the final against the Vancouver Canucks 4: 3.

He also acted as the assistant coach of Team Canada at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where the team won the gold medal.

In February 2017, Julien was released from the Bruins and replaced on an interim basis by his previous assistant Bruce Cassidy . Julien had coached the Bruins for almost 10 years and was at the time the longest-serving NHL coach working for a franchise. With 419 wins, the Canadian is also the most successful coach in the history of the Bruins in this statistic.

Just a week after his release in Boston, Julien was introduced as the new head coach of the Canadiens de Montréal. He took over from Michel Therrien , who was also dismissed at the same time and whose successor he had also taken on during his engagement in the 2002/03 season.

Coaching stations

Years	Number of seasons	society	league	Post	reached playoffs	achieved titles
1996-2000	4th	Hull Olympiques	QMJHL	Head coach	2	Memorial Cup 1997, Coupe du President 1997
2000-2003	3 (promoted to head coach of Montréal in January 03)	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL	Head coach	2	no
2003-2006	3	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	Head coach	1	no
2006-2007	1	New Jersey Devils	NHL	Head coach	1	no
2007-2017	10	Boston Bruins	NHL	Head coach	6th	Stanley Cup 2011
since 2017		Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	Head coach