Bob Hartley

Bob Hartley
Coaching stations
1991-1993	Laval titanium
1994-1996	Cornwall Aces
1996-1998	Hershey Bears
1998-2002	Colorado Avalanche
2003-2007	Atlanta Thrashers
2011–2012	ZSC Lions
2012-2016	Calgary Flames
since 2016	Team Latvia
since 2018	HK Awangard Omsk

Robert "Bob" Hartley (born September 9, 1960 in Hawkesbury , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach . He served in the National Hockey League as head coach for the Colorado Avalanche , the Atlanta Thrashers and the Calgary Flames . Since December 2016 he has been the national coach of Latvia and since May 2018 the head coach of HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

At the age of 31, Hartley took over as head coach of Laval Titan in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , where he held this position for two years and in the 1992/93 season the Coupe du Président , the championship of the LHJMQ, won. He then moved to the Cornwall Aces in the American Hockey League , where Hartley was promoted to head coach after a year as assistant coach. With the Hershey Bears , he took over the farm team of the Colorado Avalanche in the AHL in 1996 and won the Calder Cup with the team in its premiere season . Two years later, the Avalanche brought him to the NHL. From 1998 to 2002 he was a coach in Colorado, where he won the Stanley Cup in 2001 .

On January 13, 2003, he became the head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers and led them to their first playoff participation in the 2006/07 season . On October 17, 2007 he was released by the Thrashers after the team started the 2007/08 season with six losses . On March 14, 2011 Hartley was introduced as the head coach of the ZSC Lions from the National League A and took over the management of the team for the 2011/12 season . After a season in Switzerland including winning the championship title, he accepted an offer from the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League on May 31, 2012 .

After the 2014-15 season, he won the Jack Adams Award for best NHL coach of the season. This was the first time a Flames coach received this title. However, Hartley was sacked after the following 2015/16 season in which the Flames missed the playoffs.

Bob Hartley has been the national coach of Latvia since December 2016 and coached the Latvian national team at the 2017, 2018 and 2019 World Championships. In addition, Hartley and Jacques Cloutier were hired as head and assistant coaches from HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League from the 2018 season .

Hartley is married with two children.

Achievements and Awards

• 1993 Coupe-du-Président win with the Laval Titan
• 1997 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 2001 Stanley Cup win with the Colorado Avalanche
• 2012 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions
• 2015 Jack Adams Award

Web links

• Bob Hartley at hockeydb.com (English)
• Bob Hartley at eliteprospects.com (English)
• From dishwasher to Stanley Cup winner at hockeyfans.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sport.sf.tv, Bob Hartley new ZSC trainer
2. ↑ Ulrich Pickel: ZSC Lions lose coach Bob Hartley: A bolt out of the blue . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 18, 2017]).
3. ^ Former Calgary Flames coach Bob Hartley joins Latvian national team. In: sportsnet.ca. December 20, 2016, accessed May 17, 2017 . 
4. ^ IIHF - Latvia. Retrieved May 19, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Urs Berger: Bob Hartley in the KHL. In: eishockeywelt.com. May 28, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .