Dan Bylsma

Dan Bylsma
Date of birth	19th September 1970
place of birth	Grand Haven , Michigan , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 6th lap, 109th position Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
1988-1992	Bowling Green State University
1992-1993	Greensboro Monarchs
1993-1994	Moncton Hawks
1994-1996	Phoenix Roadrunners
1996-2000	Los Angeles Kings
2000-2004	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

Dan Brian Bylsma (born September 19, 1970 in Grand Haven , Michigan ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach . From 2009 to 2014 he coached the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League and won the Stanley Cup with them in 2009 . He also served as the head coach of the Buffalo Sabers from May 2015 to April 2017 . Since June 2018 he has been working as an assistant coach at the Detroit Red Wings .

Career as a player

Dan Bylsma began his career as a hockey player in the team at Bowling Green State University , for which he was active from 1988 to 1992. During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1989 in the sixth round as a total of 109th player by the Winnipeg Jets , for which he however never played. Instead, the attacker played from 1992 to 1994 for their farm teams , the Greensboro Monarchs from the East Coast Hockey League , and the American Hockey League teams Rochester Americans , Moncton Hawks , Albany River Rats and Moncton Hawks. On July 7, 1994, the left shooter received a contract with the Los Angeles Kings , for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1995/96 season , where he remained pointless and punished in four games. In his first two seasons in the Kings franchise, he mainly played for their farm team from the International Hockey League , the Phoenix Roadrunners .

After four more years with the Los Angeles Kings from the NHL, Bylsma signed in the summer of 2000 with their league rivals, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , with whom he reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2002/03 season, in which he and his team the New Jersey Devils narrowly defeated 3: 4. After the following season he ended his career as a player.

Career as a coach

Immediately after his last year as an active Bylsma began his coaching career and worked in the 2004/05 season as an assistant coach for the AHL farm team of his former club Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks , for which he had played the previous year . In the 2005/06 season the American was under contract with the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League as an assistant coach. In the summer of 2007, the former winger switched to the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise , for whose AHL farm team, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, he then worked as an assistant coach and head coach for a year. On February 15, 2009, Bylsma took over the post of dismissed head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, which he led to the third Stanley Cup success since its inception at the end of the 2008/09 season .

In March 2011, his contract in Pittsburgh was extended by three years to the end of the 2013/14 season. When Jim Rutherford took over as the new general manager of the Penguins in June 2014 , Bylsma was fired. At the time, he was the coach with the highest win percentage in franchise history .

After a year off, he was introduced as the new coach of the Buffalo Sabers in May 2015 . He coached the Sabers for two seasons, in each of which he clearly missed the playoffs and was finally sacked in April 2017.

In June 2018, he was introduced as the new assistant coach at the Detroit Red Wings .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins
• 2011 Jack Adams Award
• 2018 bronze medal at the world championship (as assistant coach)

NHL statistics

As a player

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	9	429	19th	43	62	184
Playoffs	3	16	0	1	1	2

As a trainer

team	season	regular season						Play-offs
		Games	S.	N	OTL	Pts	Place (division)	S.	N	result
Pittsburgh Penguins	2008/09	25th	18th	3	4th	40	2. ( Atlantic )	16	8th	Stanley Cup victory
Pittsburgh Penguins	2009/10	82	47	28	7th	101	2. (Atlantic)	7th	6th	Conference semifinals
Pittsburgh Penguins	2010/11	82	49	25th	8th	106	1. (Atlantic)	3	4th	Conference quarterfinals
Pittsburgh Penguins	2011/12	82	51	25th	6th	108	2. (Atlantic)	2	4th	Conference quarterfinals
Pittsburgh Penguins	2012/13	48	36	12	0	72	1. (Atlantic)	8th	7th	Conference finals
Pittsburgh Penguins	2013/14	82	51	24	7th	109	1. ( Metropolitan )	7th	6th	Conference semifinals
Buffalo Sabers	2015/16	82	35	36	11	81	7. (Atlantic)	-	-	not qualified
Buffalo Sabers	2016/17	82	33	37	12	78	8. (Atlantic)	-	-	not qualified
total		565	320	190	55	695	3 division titles	43	35	1 Stanley Cup

S = victories; N = defeats; OTL = defeat in overtime or shootout ; Pts = points

Web links

Commons : Dan Bylsma  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Dan Bylsma at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dan Bylsma at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ thehockeynews.com, Penguins coach Dan Bylsma agrees to a three-year contract extension through 2013–14 ( memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ nhl.com: "Rutherford named GM of Penguins, Bylsma fired" (English, June 6, 2014, accessed June 7, 2014)
3. ↑ Ruhr Nachrichten , NHL: Dan Bylsma new coach with the Buffalo Sabers ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 28, 2015