Dave Hakstol

Dave Hakstol
Date of birth	July 30, 1968
place of birth	Drayton Valley , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1986-1989	Red Deer Rustlers
1989-1992	University of North Dakota
1992-1994	Indianapolis Ice
1994-1996	Minnesota Moose

David "Dave" Hakstol (born July 30, 1968 in Drayton Valley , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . His active professional career, which the defender had to end prematurely due to an injury, he spent exclusively in the International Hockey League . He started as a coach in the United States Hockey League before he worked for a total of 15 years at the University of North Dakota , where he had also played and studied himself. In May 2015, the Canadian was introduced as the head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League and was only the third coach to rise directly from college to the NHL. He held this position until December 2018 and has been an assistant coach at the Toronto Maple Leafs since June 2019 .

Career

As a player

youth

Dave Hakstol was born in Drayton Valley and grew up on the family farm in Warburg, about 50 kilometers away, as the youngest of three children. His father ran the farm and worked in the surrounding oil fields while his mother worked as a teacher. Hakstol played ice hockey first in his hometown and later for a year in Camrose . After graduating from school, he wanted to start studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and play for a junior team at the same time, but was discovered by the trainer of the Red Deer Rustlers from the Alberta Junior Hockey League during a trial training session just a week before the planned move subsequently played in Red Deer for three years . During this period, from 1986 to 1989, Hakstol already took parallel courses at Red Deer College , which were to shorten his later studies in North Dakota . It was the University of North Dakota (UND) that offered him a scholarship in 1989; in addition, Dixon Ward , later NHL professional, with whom he had previously played together in Camrose and Red Deer, had already been enrolled at the university for a year.

College and professional careers

In the North Dakota Fighting Sioux team , as the college's team was still called at the time, the defender quickly established himself and was elected captain in his second year . However, he did not complete his third year because he had previously taken courses at Red Deer College and was therefore no longer eligible to play due to the NCAA regulations. In the following summer semester he could have finished his studies with a degree, but decided on a temporary professional career and joined the Indianapolis Ice from the International Hockey League (IHL). In Indianapolis Hakstol came to regular missions as well as with the Minnesota Moose , to which he moved three years later within the IHL. He was also active as a team captain for both the Ice and the Moose. In his second season with the Moose, he suffered a serious knee injury in December 1995 after an opponent fell in a tackle on it. Several ligaments and tendons tore and required an operation, as a result of which he had to end his active career. In total, the defender had completed 280 IHL games and scored 49 points scorer .

As a trainer

Dave Hakstol
Coaching stations
1996-2000	Sioux City Musketeers
2000-2015	University of North Dakota
2015-2018	Philadelphia Flyers
since 2019	Toronto Maple Leafs (Assistant Coach)

USHL

While he was still rehabilitating from his knee injury, Hakstol stood behind the gang as the assistant coach of the Minnesota Moose and completed his studies at the UND with a Bachelor of Business Administration . He then planned to continue his playing career in Europe, but previously received a call from Gino Gasparini, who had trained him for almost three years at the North Dakota Fighting Sioux and was now the new managing director of the United States Hockey League (USHL). Gasparini was looking for a new head coach for one of the USHL teams, the Sioux City Musketeers , and offered Hakstol the post. This accepted the offer and thus began work in October 1996 as head coach in the highest junior league in the United States. The first season with the Musketeers was extremely disappointing, so the team suffered a 4:16 defeat in Hakstol's debut, lost 43 of 54 games and ended the regular season in last place. As a result, he managed to stabilize the team and in the next three years to retract more wins than defeats and to reach the playoffs. In addition, he was elected coach of the year in the USHL in the 1997/98 season.

North Dakota

After four years in Sioux City, Hakstol returned to his alma mater when he took over the position of assistant coach for the Fighting Sioux under Dean Blais in July 2000 . In the following four years under Blais, Hakstol was primarily responsible for scouting and recruiting new players. In 2004 Blais moved to the Columbus Blue Jackets coaching team and publicly proposed Hakstol as his successor; a position that he was subsequently offered and accepted. In its first season, 2004/05, the Fighting Sioux started weak and finished the season fifth in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), but qualified for the national playoffs of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). There the team advanced to the final round, the Frozen Four , and won the semifinals against the University of Minnesota , but lost in the final to the University of Denver and thus became the second best college team in the United States.

In his eleven years at UND, Hakstol led the team to the Frozen Four seven times - more than any other university during that period. The team won the title of best team of the regular season three times as well as four playoff titles in their conference. Hakstol himself was honored twice as coach of the year: 2009 in the WCHA and 2015 in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference , to which the team switched for the 2013/14 season. 20 players who had played under him as head coach at UND made the NHL by the end of the 2014/15 season, including Jonathan Toews , Travis Zajac , Matt Greene and TJ Oshie . He left North Dakota as a coach with the second highest win percentage in team history.

NHL

In May 2015 Hakstol was surprisingly introduced as the new head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League (NHL), succeeding Craig Berube . Ron Hextall , General Manager of Flyers since 2014, knew and appreciated Hakstol, as he had trained his son Brett Hextall at the UND. Hakstol became the third coach who moved from the NCAA directly to the NHL; before him, only Ned Harkness (1970, Detroit Red Wings ) and Bob Johnson (1982, Calgary Flames ) had succeeded.

Hakstol made his international debut at the 2017 World Cup when he won the silver medal with the Canadian national team as an assistant to Jon Cooper .

In December 2018, Hakstol was sacked after only twelve wins from 31 games in the 2018/19 season - the Flyers were at the bottom of the Eastern Conference at this point and had previously replaced General Manager Ron Hextall with Chuck Fletcher . Overall, Hakstol had led the team to the playoffs twice in just under three and a half years, but were eliminated in the first round. In addition, in the history of the Flyers only Fred Shero (554) and Mike Keenan (320) have been the head coach behind the gang in more games than Hakstol (277). His successor was Scott Gordon on an interim basis .

In June 2019, Hakstol was introduced as the new assistant to head coach Mike Babcock at the Toronto Maple Leafs .

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 USHL coach of the year
• 2009 WCHA Trainer of the Year
• 2015 NCHC Trainer of the Year
• 2017 silver medal at the world championship (as assistant coach)

Career statistics

Player statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM
1989/90	University of North Dakota	WCHA		44	4th	16	20th		76
1990/91	University of North Dakota	WCHA		42	3	9	12		63
1991/92	University of North Dakota	WCHA		21st	3	11	14th		52
1991/92	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		35	1	6th	7th		30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		54	1	3	4th	+10	82		4th	0	0	0	± 0	7th
1993/94	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		79	5	12	17th	-4	150		-	-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Minnesota Moose	IHL		76	3	14th	17th	-3	128		3	0	0	0	-2	6th
1995/96	Minnesota Moose	IHL		36	2	2	4th	-3	65		-	-	-	-	-	-
WCHA overall				107	10	36	46		191
IHL total				280	12	37	49		455		7th	0	0	0	-2	13

( 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 )

Coach statistics

USHL

team	season	regular season						Playoffs
		Games	S.	N	OTL	Pt	space	S.	N	result
Sioux City Musketeers	1996/97	54	8th	43	2	20th	12.	not qualified
Sioux City Musketeers	1997/98	56	32	21st	3	67	5.	1	4th	1 round
Sioux City Musketeers	1998/99	56	34	19th	3	71	5.	2	3	1 round
Sioux City Musketeers	1999/00	58	27	26th	5	59	9.	2	3	1 round
total		224	101	109	13	217	-	5	10	-

North Dakota

team	season	regular season						Playoffs	NCAA playoffs
		Games	S.	N	U	Pt	space	space	result
North Dakota	2004/05	28	13	12	3	29	5. ( WCHA )	3.	final
North Dakota	2005/06	28	16	12	0	32	4. (WCHA)	1 .	Semifinals
North Dakota	2006/07	28	13	10	5	31	3. (WCHA)	2.	Semifinals
North Dakota	2007/08	28	18th	7th	3	39	2. (WCHA)	3.	Semifinals
North Dakota	2008/09	28	17th	7th	4th	38	1 . (WCHA)	4th	1 round
North Dakota	2009/10	28	15th	10	3	33	4. (WCHA)	1 .	1 round
North Dakota	2010/11	28	21st	6th	1	43	1 . (WCHA)	1 .	Semifinals
North Dakota	2011/12	28	16	11	1	33	4. (WCHA)	1 .	2nd round
North Dakota	2012/13	28	14th	7th	7th	35	3. (WCHA)	4th	2nd round
North Dakota	2013/14	24	15th	9	0	45	2. ( NCHC )	3.	Semifinals
North Dakota	2014/15	24	16	6th	2	35	1 . (NCHC)	4th	Semifinals
total		300	174	97	29	393	3 tracks	4 playoff titles	7 Frozen Four participations

NHL

team	season	regular season						Playoffs
		Games	S.	N	OTL	Pt	Place (division)	S.	N	result
Philadelphia Flyers	2015/16	82	41	27	14th	96	5. ( Metropolitan )	2	4th	1 round
Philadelphia Flyers	2016/17	82	39	33	10	88	6. (Metropolitan)	not qualified
Philadelphia Flyers	2017/18	82	42	26th	14th	98	3. (Metropolitan)	2	4th	1 round
Philadelphia Flyers	2018/19	31	12	14th	4th	28	dismiss
total		277	134	101	42	310	no division title	no Stanley Cup

( Legend to coach statistics: S = wins; N = defeats; U = draws; OTL = defeat in overtime or shootout ; pts = points)

Personal

Hakstol has been married since 2003 and has a daughter and a son.

Web links

• Dave Hakstol at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Seravalli: Dave Hakstol - What he built in North Dakota. (No longer available online.) Philly.com, June 5, 2015, archived from the original on June 9, 2015 ; accessed on June 12, 2015 . 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Brad Elliott Schlossman: Meet Dave Hakstol. Grand Forks Herald, October 10, 2014, accessed June 12, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jim Matheson: New Philadelphia Flyers hire Dave Hakstol joins Lindy Ruff as NHL head coaches from Warburg, Alta. (No longer available online.) Edmonton Journal, May 22, 2015, formerly original ; accessed on June 13, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Profile on the University of North Dakota pages. (No longer available online.) University of North Dakota, archived from the original on April 21, 2015 ; accessed on June 13, 2015 . 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.  
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Steve Allspach: New Muskies boss excited about coaching. Sioux City Journal, October 11, 1996, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} University of North Dakota names Dave Hakstol head men's hockey coach. University of North Dakota, July 9, 2004, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Jayson Hajdu: Hakstol resigns, accepts head job with Philadelphia. University of North Dakota, May 18, 2015, accessed June 13, 2015 .