Craig Berube

Craig Berube
Date of birth	December 17, 1965
place of birth	Calahoo , Alberta , Canada
Nickname	The Chief
size	188 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1982-1983	Kamloops Junior Oilers
1983-1985	New Westminster Bruins
1985	Kamloops Blazers
1985-1986	Medicine Hat Tigers
1986-1991	Philadelphia Flyers
1991-1992	Toronto Maple Leafs
1992-1993	Calgary Flames
1993-1999	Washington Capitals
1999-2000	Philadelphia Flyers
2000-2001	Washington Capitals
2001	New York Islanders
2001-2003	Calgary Flames
2003-2004	Philadelphia Phantoms

Craig "The Chief" Berube (born December 17, 1965 in Calahoo , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who worked for the Philadelphia Flyers , Toronto Maple Leafs , Calgary Flames , Washington Capitals and New York Islanders in played the National Hockey League . From October 2013 to April 2015 he was also the head coach of the Flyers, for which he had previously worked as an assistant coach. Since November 2018 he has been the head coach of the St. Louis Blues , which he led directly to the first Stanley Cup success in franchise history at the end of his first season .

Career as a player

Craig Berube began his career as a hockey player in the 1982/83 season with the Williams Lake Mustangs of the Pacific Coast Junior Hockey League . In the same season he also ran in four games for the Kamloops Jr. Oilers from the Western Hockey League . After another three years in the WHL with the New Westminster Bruins , New Westminster Royals , Kamloops Blazers and Medicine Hat Tigers , the attacker signed a contract as a free agent with the Philadelphia Flyers on March 19, 1986 , without ever having been drafted.

In the five years that Berube was under contract in Philadelphia, he also played for their farm team , the Hershey Bears , in the American Hockey League . In May 1991, the Edmonton Oilers signed the Canadian, but they gave him back to the Toronto Maple Leafs in September of the same year without previously using him in an NHL game. But Berube did not stay long in Toronto either, since he was handed over to the Calgary Flames in January 1992. After another season in Calgary, Berube moved to the Washington Capitals on June 26, 1993 in exchange for their five-round voting rights in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft .

After six years in Washington, Berube returned to his ex-club, the Philadelphia Flyers, in 1999, for which he was active for the following year and a half. The winger began the 2000/01 season at his ex-club Washington Capitals before the New York Islanders signed him until the end of the season. On September 18, 2001 Berube received a contract with his third ex-team, the Calgary Flames, as a free agent, for which he spent two more seasons in the NHL. Berube finally ended his active career in the 2003/04 season with the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	17th	1054	61	98	159	3149
Playoffs	9	89	3	1	4th	211

Career as a coach

Already in the first season after his career as an ice hockey player Berube was assistant coach of his last team, the Philadelphia Phantoms from the American Hockey League in 2004 . In this role he worked for the club for two years. Before the 2006/07 season Berube was appointed head coach of the Phantoms, at the beginning of the season, however, replaced by Kjell Samuelsson on the gang, since Berube himself was under contract as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League until the end of the season .

In October 2013, Berube was named head coach by the Philadelphia Flyers after the team lost the first three games of the 2013-14 season under head coach Peter Laviolette . Until then, Berube had been assistant coach under Laviolette. After leading the Flyers into the playoffs in 2014, he missed them the following year and was subsequently dismissed in April 2015.

After a break of a year, the Canadian took over the Chicago Wolves from the AHL for the 2016/17 season . Its then NHL cooperation partner, the St. Louis Blues , signed Berube in June 2017 as assistant to head coach Mike Yeo . After Yeo was sacked in November 2018, Berube succeeded him on an interim basis and immediately won the Stanley Cup in the following playoffs in 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Calder Cup win with the Philadelphia Phantoms (as assistant coach)
• 2019 Stanley Cup win with the St. Louis Blues (as head coach)

Web links

Commons : Craig Berube  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Craig Berube at hockeydb.com (English)
• Craig Berube at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Craig Berube at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ change of coach at the Flyers ; Report on Sport1 from October 7, 2013