Brad Vigon

Brad Vigon
Date of birth	April 7, 1969
place of birth	Santa Monica , California , USA
size	170 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1987-1988	Penticton Knights
1988-1989	Lytes Rustlers
1989-1990	Los Angeles Jets Minot Top Guns
1990-1991	Mikkelin Jukurit
1991-1992	Dordrecht Lions
1992-1993	Värnamo GIK
2003-2010	Melbourne Ice

Brad Vigon (born April 7, 1969 in Santa Monica , California , USA ) is a former Australian - American ice hockey player and current coach . Since 2016 he has been the head coach of the Australian national ice hockey team .

Career

Brad Vigon began his career as an ice hockey player in various North American junior leagues. First he played in the 1987/88 season with the Penticton Knights in the Canadian junior league British Columbia Hockey League . He then spent one season each with the Lytes Rustlers in the NAJHL, and in the 1989/90 season with the Los Angeles Jets from the PCHL and the Minot Top Guns from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League . In the summer of 1990 the center went to Europe, where he spent one season each with Mikkelin Jukurit in the II divisioona, the third Finnish division, the Dordrecht Lions in the second Dutch division and Värnamo GIK in division 3, the fourth highest division in Sweden at the time, stood on the ice. He then temporarily ended his career before moving to Melbourne Ice in 2003 in the Australian Ice Hockey League , which he played for until his end of career in 2010. His greatest success with the Melbourne Ice as a player was winning the Goodall Cup , the Australian championship title, in his final season in 2010.

International

For Australia , Vigon took part in the World Cup of Division II in 2008 and rose with his team to Division I. He scored a goal in five games and gave an assist.

Coaching career

After Vigon was already active as an assistant coach for his team in 2010 in addition to his work as a player, in 2011 he was exclusively behind the gang as an assistant coach and was able to win the Goodall Cup again with the Melbourne Ice. From 2013 to 2015 he was the head coach at local rivals Mustangs IHC , with whom he won the Goodall Cup for the first time in 2014 as the main responsible.

Internationally, he was assistant coach of the Australians in Division II at the 2013 World Cup . At the 2016 World Cup , he acted as head coach of the Australians for the first time and, after relegation in the previous year, led them back from the B group to the A group of Division II he then worked in the same function at the 2017 and 2018 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Promotion to Division I at the World Championship Division II, Group B
• 2010 Goodall Cup win with the Melbourne Ice
• 2011 Goodall Cup win with the Melbourne Ice (as assistant coach)
• 2014 Goodall Cup win with the Mustangs IHC (as head coach)
• 2016 Promotion to Division II, Group B, at the World Championship Division II, Group B (as head coach)

Web links

• Brad Vigon at eurohockey.com
• Brad Vigon at eliteprospects.com (English)