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Barry defiance
Date of birth July 15, 1962
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 81 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1979-1982 Regina Pats

Barry Boris (born July 15, 1962 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who has been the head coach of the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League since June 2018 . Before that, he was in charge of the Washington Capitals in the NHL from 2014 to 2018 , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs , and the Nashville Predators from 1997 to 2014 .

Career

As a player, even played for the Regina Pats in the Western Hockey League in the early 1980s .

From 1990 he was two years assistant coach with the Baltimore Skipjacks in the American Hockey League , which promoted him to head coach in 1992. In 1993 he moved within the league to the Portland Pirates , with whom he won the Calder Cup in 1994 .

On August 6, 1997, Barry Despite was appointed head coach of the newly formed Nashville Predators , which began playing in the 1998/99 season . Despite led the Predators four times in a row in the play-offs since 2004 , but he failed each time with the Predators in the first round. In the 2012/13 season, Barry Spy is the head coach of the Predators, which means he currently holds the record for the most games played by a team as a coach since it was founded and is also the longest-serving coach in the NHL.

On March 30, 2012, he posted his 500th NHL victory as head coach in the regular season when the Nashville Predators won 4-1 at the Detroit Red Wings .

Since the Predators failed to reach the play-offs again in 2014, Barry Spy was dismissed after 15 years as coach of the Nashville Predators. At that time he was the longest-serving NHL coach and behind Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs ( NBA ) the longest-serving coach in the four major American sports leagues.

On May 26, 2014, Spy was introduced as the new head coach of the Washington Capitals . With the team he won the Presidents' Trophy in the 2015/16 season and was honored with the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. In the 2018 playoffs , he finally led the team to the first Stanley Cup in team history. Despite this success, he asked the Capitals a little later for his release and thus became the first coach since Scotty Bowman (2002) who no longer coaches his team after a Stanley Cup success. Bowman had ended his career, though, while spite did not; Mike Keenan last took this step after his success with the New York Rangers in 1994.

A few days after his resignation in Washington, he was introduced as the new head coach of the New York Islanders , where he succeeded Doug Weight . He led the team surprisingly confidently back into the playoffs and at the same time established the best defense in the league, so that he again received the Jack Adams Award.

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

Coach statistics

Abbreviations: GC = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime , Pts = points

team season Regular season Playoffs
GC W. L. T OTL Pts Pts% GC W. L.
Baltimore Skipjacks 1992/93 80 28 40 12 - 68 .425 7th 3 4th
Portland Pirates 1993 / 94-1996 / 97 320 158 109 42 11 369 .577 53 32 21st
Nashville Predators 1998 / 99–2013 / 14 1196 557 479 60 100 1274 .533 50 19th 31
Washington Capitals 2014 / 15–2017 / 18 328 205 89 - 34 444 .677 63 36 27
New York Islanders since 2018/19 82 48 27 - 7th 103 .628 8th 4th 4th

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Despite out as Predators coach , usatoday.com, April 14, 2014, accessed April 16, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Capitals promote MacLellan to GM, hire Despite as coach , tsn.ca, May 26, 2014, accessed on May 27, 2014 (English)
Squad of the New York Islanders in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Despite, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Canada