Claude Noël

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CanadaCanada  Claude Noël Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 31, 1955
place of birth Kirkland Lake , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 75 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1974-1975 Kitchener Rangers
1975-1976 Buffalo Norsemen
1976-1981 Hershey Bears
1981-1982 SC Bern
1982-1983 Toledo Goaldiggers
1983-1984 Salzburg EC
1984-1985 Toledo Goaldiggers
1985-1987 Kalamazoo Wings
1987-1988 Milwaukee Admirals

Claude Noël (born October 31, 1955 in Kirkland Lake , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach. Most recently he was the head coach of the Winnipeg Jets from the National Hockey League .

Career

Player career

Noël began his junior career in 1974 with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League , now the Ontario Hockey League . After no NHL team had drafted him, the center signed his first professional contract with the Buffalo Norsemen of the North American Hockey League . But since the team stopped playing after one season, Noël was obliged by the Hershey Bears from the American Hockey League before the 1976/77 season . There he established himself as a regular for the team in his debut season and two years later was able to set new personal bests with 30 goals and a total of 80 scorer points.

In the 1979/80 season Noël was signed as a free agent by the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League . There he completed only seven games, in which he remained pointless and punished before returning to Hershey in the AHL. With 19 points in 16 play-off games, the center finally helped the team to win the Calder Cup .

After four years with the Hershey Bears returned the AHL Noël his back and moved to the Swiss first division club SC Bern in the National League A . There he played only 26 games and could not prevent the team's relegation from the first division with 24 points scored. He then returned to North America and signed a contract with the Toledo Goaldiggers from the International Hockey League before the 1982/83 season . With 124 points he was there behind Dirk Graham, the second best scorer of his team. After the end of the season he was finally awarded the James Gatschene Memorial Trophy for the best player of the season. In the play-offs, the team was able to continue their performances from the regular season and thus win the Turner Cup . In the following year, the center moved to Europe again, this time to the Salzburg EC in Austria, before returning to Toledo after a season. In 1985 he moved within the league to the Kalamazoo Wings . After two seasons with the team, he signed a one-year contract with the Milwaukee Admirals before finally ending his career there.

Coaching career

As early as 1984/85, Claude Noël was a player at the Toledo Goaldiggers and also worked as an assistant coach. After his career as a player, he began as an assistant coach with the North Bay Centennials in the Ontario Hockey League , before he received his first post as head coach with the Roanoke Valley Rebels from the ECHL in 1990 . The following season he was committed by league rivals Dayton Bombers and coached the team for two years.

In the summer of 1993, Noël moved as an assistant to his former team in Kalamazoo, where he rose after two seasons to head coach of the team, which has now been renamed Michigan K-Wings . After he was released there after the end of the 1997/98 season, another former team from the IHL, the Milwaukee Admirals , initially also hired him as an assistant coach. The team, which moved to the American Hockey League in 2001 , he coached for three seasons until he was signed for a season by the Toledo Storm from the ECHL. There he received the John Brophy Award after the end of the season , which is given annually to the best coach in the league. Noël then returned to Milwaukee in the AHL and got a job as head coach. There he was able to bring in a total of 46 wins from 80 games with the team, making it the best team in the regular season. The Admirals were also able to continue their success in the play-offs and ultimately win the Calder Cup. Noël then received the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award for best coach of the AHL season. In the following three seasons, his team was always able to qualify for the play-offs and again reach the final in 2006.

Before the 2007-08 season , Claude Noël got his first job in the National Hockey League when he was hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets as an assistant coach. When the previous head coach Ken Hitchcock was dismissed in February 2010 due to persistent failures, Noël took over his post until the end of the season and was so 24 games in Columbus behind the bench. After the Blue Jackets had found a new coach, the Manitoba Moose from the AHL hired him as head coach.

When the relocation of the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg became known prior to the 2011/12 season , the new Winnipeg Jets took Noël over from the Moose as head coach of their NHL team. There he missed the play-offs in his first two seasons and was dismissed as head coach in January 2014 after a total of 177 games. He was replaced by Paul Maurice .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Player statistics

Regular season Play-offs
league Seasons Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
NHL 1 7th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
AHL 5 353 95 189 284 141 36 14th 17th 31 20th
IHL 5 375 115 254 369 132 28 7th 23 30th 8th
NLA 1 26th 12 12 24 40 - - - - -

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Noël, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkland Lake , Ontario