Bob Gainey

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CanadaCanada  Bob Gainey Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1992
Date of birth December 13, 1953
place of birth Peterborough , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st lap, 8th position
Montréal Canadiens
WHA Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st round, 7th position
Minnesota Fighting Saints
Career stations
1970-1973 Peterborough Petes
1973-1989 Montréal Canadiens
1989-1990 Image Club d'Épinal

Robert Michael "Bob" Gainey (born December 13, 1953 in Peterborough , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played for the Montréal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1973 to 1989 . From summer 2003 to February 2010 he was General Manager of the Montréal Canadiens.

Career

player

As a junior he played with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey Association . The Montreal Canadiens took him eighth in the first round of the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft . Gainey, a proven defensive striker , won the Frank J. Selke Trophy, introduced in 1978, for the best defensive attacker four times in a row. No other player in the NHL has been able to turn an entire game without scoring a point. His strength was to neutralize the opposing playmaker. After winning the Stanley Cup four times in a row from 1976 to 1979 , he was allowed to lead the Canadiens to his fifth title in 1986 as captain . From 1981 to 1989 he wore the C on his chest and only Jean Béliveau was captain of the Canadiens for longer.

Gainey's jersey in the Hockey Hall of Fame

In 1992 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame and on February 23, 2008 the Montreal Canadiens will hang his jersey number 23 as a banner on the ceiling of the Center Bell , which will therefore no longer be given to any player in the franchise .

Bob Gainey was also active for the Canadian national ice hockey team . He played the ice hockey world championships in 1982 and 1983 and the Canada Cup in 1976 and 1981 . Finally, he played with the NHL All-Stars in the Challenge Cup 1979 against the Soviet national ice hockey team .

Trainer and manager

Immediately after the end of his career, he went to France and started his coaching career there. After a year he returned to North America and took his first coaching position in the NHL with the Minnesota North Stars and made it into the Stanley Cup final in his freshman year. He moved the team to Dallas and spent five and a half years behind the gang of stars. At the same time he worked from 1992 to 2002 as the team's general manager. During his tenure as GM, the Stars won the Stanley Cup in 1999. In 1998 he was jointly responsible for the nomination of the squad of the Canadian national team for the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano .

In 2003 he took on the job of General Manager at the Montreal Canadiens. In January 2006 he dismissed Claude Julien as coach and took over the coaching post for the rest of the season. Guy Carbonneau worked as Gainey's assistant coach and got the job as head coach in the summer.

Private

On June 21, 1995, Gainey's wife Cathy, who had fought a brain tumor for five years , died. He and his wife had four children Anna, Coleen, Steve and Laura. In mid-December 2006, his 25-year-old daughter Laura, who was swept off the deck of a ship by a wave in stormy weather in the Atlantic Ocean, about 700 kilometers from Cape Cod , Massachusetts , went missing . Laura Gainey had worked on the three-master. After three days, the coast guard stopped their search because it could not be found. Bob Gainey temporarily resigned as GM of the Montréal Canadiens.

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 16 1,160 239 262 501 585
Playoffs 16 182 25th 48 73 151

Achievements and Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Gainey, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gainey, Robert Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterborough, Ontario , Canada