Dave Barr

Dave Barr
Date of birth	November 30, 1960
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1978-1979	Edmonton Oil Kings
1979	Great Falls Americans
1979	Portland Winter Hawks
1979-1981	Lethbridge Broncos
1981-1983	Boston Bruins Erie Blades Baltimore Skipjacks
1983-1984	New York Rangers Tulsa Oilers
1984-1986	St. Louis Blues
1986-1987	Hartford Whalers
1987-1991	Detroit Red Wings
1991-1993	New Jersey Devils
1993-1995	Dallas Stars Kalamazoo Wings
1995-1997	Orlando Solar Bears

David Angus "Dave" Barr (born November 30, 1960 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active professional career, which lasted from 1981 to 1997, the right winger completed over 600 games in the National Hockey League . Since July 2017 he has been the assistant coach of the San Jose Sharks , after having already looked after several other NHL teams in this role.

Career

As a player

Dave Barr was born in Toronto but grew up in Alberta . In his youth he played for the Billings Bighorns , Edmonton Oil Kings , Great Falls Americans , Portland Winter Hawks and Lethbridge Broncos in the Western Hockey League between 1978 and 1981 . Without being considered in an NHL Entry Draft , the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League (NHL) signed him in September 1981 . For the Bruins, the right winger came to only twelve missions in two years and spent most of the time in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Erie Blades and the Baltimore Skipjacks , the farm teams of the Bruins. In October 1983 Barr was finally handed over to Dave Silk to the New York Rangers , who also used him in their farm team, the Tulsa Oilers , and in March 1984 with a third-round vote in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft to the St. Louis Blues transferred. In return, the Rangers got Larry Patey and the rights to Bob Brooke .

In the Blues, Barr established himself for the first time in the squad of an NHL team and came to 150 missions in St. Louis by October 1986, when he was given in exchange for Tim Bothwell to the Hartford Whalers . As early as January 1987, they sent them on to the Detroit Red Wings , who in return sent Randy Ladouceur to Hartford. With the Red Wings Barr spent his most successful NHL years, so he came in the season 1988/89 on 59 scorer points in 72 games, which should be his personal best. After four and a half years, however, his time in Detroit ended involuntarily in September 1991 when an independent NHL referee awarded the player rights to him and Randy McKay to the New Jersey Devils in compensation for the signing of Troy Crowder as a free agent .

In New Jersey, the attacker could no longer build on his performance shown at the Red Wings. In August 1993, he joined the Dallas Stars as a free agent , but missed most of the following season due to elbow surgery. In the following three years he let his career with the Kalamazoo Wings and the Orlando Solar Bears in the International Hockey League (IHL) come to an end, with him getting 100 scorer points for the Solar Bears in the 1995/96 season .

After the 1996/97 season , Barr ended his active career. In total, he came to 614 missions in the NHL and scored 128 goals, 204 assists and 332 points scorer.

As a trainer

Synonymous with the end of his active career, Barr was introduced in July 1997 as an assistant coach with the Houston Eros from the IHL. For the 2000/01 season he took over the Eros as head coach, before moving to management as the team's general manager after just one season. In this role, he won the Calder Cup with the team in the American Hockey League in 2003 , to which the team had meanwhile switched. In 2004 he took over the Guelph Storm in personal union as head coach and general manager, and in 2006 he was awarded the Matt Leyden Trophy as the best coach of the Ontario Hockey League .

After four years in the junior division, Barr returned to the NHL for the 2008-09 season when the Colorado Avalanche hired him as an assistant to Tony Granato . Over the next few years, he was in the position of assistant coach in a number of NHL teams, namely the Minnesota Wild (2009-2011), the New Jersey Devils (2011-2015), the Buffalo Sabers (2015/16) and the Florida Panthers (2016/17). In July 2017, Barr was introduced to the San Jose Sharks as Peter DeBoer's new assistant , with whom he had previously worked in New Jersey.

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Calder Cup win with the Houston Eros (as General Manager)
• 2006 Matt Leyden Trophy

Career statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
1977/78	Billings Bighorns	WCHL		2	0	1	1		0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Edmonton Oil Kings	WHL		72	16	19th	35		61		8th	4th	0	4th		2
1979/80	Great Falls Americans	WHL		3	0	1	1		10		-	-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		27	4th	12	16		18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Lethbridge Broncos	WHL		30th	12	25th	37		29		-	-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Lethbridge Broncos	WHL		72	26th	62	88		106		10	4th	10	14th		4th
1981/82	Erie Blades	AHL		76	18th	48	66		29		-	-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Boston Bruins	NHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		5	1	0	1	± 0	0
1982/83	Baltimore Skipjacks	AHL		72	27	51	78		67		-	-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Boston Bruins	NHL		10	1	1	2	+1	7th		10	0	0	0	-1	2
1983/84	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		50	28	37	65		24		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	New York Rangers	NHL		6th	0	0	0	± 0	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	St. Louis Blues	NHL		1	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	St. Louis Blues	NHL		75	16	18th	34	+5	32		2	0	0	0	± 0	2
1985/86	St. Louis Blues	NHL		72	13	38	51	+11	70		11	1	1	2	+1	14th
1986/87	St. Louis Blues	NHL		2	0	0	0	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Hartford Whalers	NHL		30th	2	4th	6th	-1	19th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		37	13	13	26th	+7	49		13	1	0	1	-3	14th
1987/88	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		51	14th	26th	40	+20	58		16	5	7th	12	-2	22nd
1988/89	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		73	27	32	59	+12	69		6th	3	1	4th	+1	6th
1989/90	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		9	1	14th	15th		17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		62	10	25th	35	+5	45		-	-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		70	18th	22nd	40	+20	55		-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Utica Devils	AHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	New Jersey Devils	NHL		41	6th	12	18th	+9	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	New Jersey Devils	NHL		62	6th	8th	14th	+1	61		5	1	0	1	-2	6th
1993/94	Kalamazoo Wings	IHL		4th	3	2	5	+3	5		-	-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Dallas Stars	NHL		20th	2	5	7th	–6	21st		3	0	1	1	+1	4th
1994/95	Kalamazoo Wings	IHL		66	18th	41	59	+24	77		16	1	4th	5	–9	8th
1995/96	Orlando Solar Bears	IHL		82	38	62	100	+13	87		23	8th	13	21st	+4	14th
1996/97	Orlando Solar Bears	IHL		50	15th	29	44	+5	29		9	2	3	5	-2	8th
WCHL / WHL total				206	58	120	178		224		18th	8th	10	18th		6th
AHL total				158	46	113	159		120		-	-	-	-	-	-
IHL total				202	74	134	208	+45	198		48	11	20th	31	–7	30th
NHL overall				614	128	204	332	+84	520		71	12	10	22nd	-5	70

( 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 )

Personal

Barr is married and has two children.

Web links

• Dave Barr in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Dave Barr at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Dave Barr at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alex Yannis: Devils Awarded Barr and McKay. nytimes.com, September 10, 1991, accessed August 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Barr Named Sharks Assistant Coach. nhl.com, July 26, 2017, accessed August 13, 2017 .