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 .
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 |
Achievements and Awards
As a player
- CHL Second All-Star Team 1983
- AHL Second All-Star Team 1989
As a trainer
- Memorial Cup 1997
- Coupe du Président 1997
- Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award 2003 (with Geoff Ward )
- Jack Adams Award 2009
- Stanley Cup 2011
- Gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 (as assistant coach)
Web links
- Claude Julien at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Claude Julien at hockeydb.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruins Relieve Claude Julien Of Coaching Duties. nhl.com, February 7, 2017, accessed February 7, 2017 .
Goalkeeper:
Charlie Lindgren |
Carey Price
Defender:
Ben Chiarot |
Cale Fleury |
Christian Folin |
Brett Kulak |
Victor Mete |
Jeff Petry |
Shea Weber ( C )
attacker:
Joel Armia |
Paul Byron ( A ) |
Phillip Danault |
Max Domi |
Jonathan Drouin |
Brendan Gallagher ( A ) |
Jesperi Kotkaniemi |
Artturi Lehkonen |
Nick Suzuki |
Tomáš Tatar |
Jordan Weal
Head coach: Claude Julien Assistant coach: Dominique Ducharme | Kirk Muller | Luke Richardson General Manager: Marc Bergevin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Julien, Claude |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Blind River , Ontario |