Dave Tippett

Dave Tippett
Date of birth	August 25, 1961
place of birth	Moosomin , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1979-1981	Prince Albert Raiders
1981-1983	University of North Dakota
1983-1984	Team Canada
1984-1990	Hartford Whalers
1990-1992	Washington Capitals
1992-1993	Pittsburgh Penguins
1993-1994	Philadelphia Flyers
1994-1995	Houston Eros

David G. "Dave" Tippett (* 25. August 1961 in Moosomin , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey players (left wing) and current - trainer , who from 1983 to 1994 for the Hartford Whalers , Washington Capitals , Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers in played the National Hockey League . After the end of his active career, he acted as head coach of the Dallas Stars (2002-2009), the Phoenix / Arizona Coyotes (2009-2017) and, since May 2019, the Edmonton Oilers .

Career

Tippett played for the Prince Albert Raiders in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League with James Patrick during his junior years . In 1981 the team won the Manitoba Centennial Trophy and he was selected as the top scorer in the All-Star Team of the final tournament. The next season he moved to the University of North Dakota team , which played in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . Here he managed to win the NCAA title of all American colleges and universities.

He spent the 1983/84 season as captain with the Canadian national ice hockey team and prepared for the 1984 Winter Olympics . However, the team missed the bronze medal with 4th place in Sarajevo .

Immediately after the Olympics, he moved to the Hartford Whalers and made his NHL debut in the 1983/84 season . He quickly gained a foothold in the NHL and fought for a regular place as a defensively oriented striker. He stayed in Hartford for another six years before moving to the Washington Capitals for the 1990/91 season. During the two seasons with the Capitals, he won the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville, his greatest success.

He then played one season each for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers before joining the Houston Eros in the IHL in 1994 .

After a year as a player in Houston, he took over the position of assistant coach, but during the season he was promoted to head coach.

For the 1999/2000 season he moved to the Los Angeles Kings as an assistant to Dave Taylor . After three years of experience there, the Dallas Stars signed him as head coach from the 2002/03 season . For the 2009/10 season , Tippett took over the position on the gang with the Phoenix Coyotes . After completing his debut season in Phoenix, he was honored with the Jack Adams Award as Coach of the Year, as the team had set new franchise records with 50 wins and 107 points and was represented in the playoffs for the first time since 2002.

In September 2016, he was the assistant coach of Team North America at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , a selection of U23 players from Canada and the USA.

After five years without a playoff participation, the Coyotes parted ways with Tippett after the 2016/17 season. He had coached the team for eight years and at that point was the coach with the second longest tenure in the NHL (after Joel Quenneville ).

In June 2018, Tippett was hired as an advisor to the new NHL team in Seattle, which was named Seattle Kraken in July 2020 . From there, however, the Edmonton Oilers recruited him as head coach, where he succeeded Ken Hitchcock in May 2019 .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	721	93	169	262	317
Playoffs	8th	62	6th	16	22nd	34

Sporting successes

• Manitoba Centennial Trophy : 1981
• NCAA Championship: 1982
• Olympic silver medal: 1992
• Turner Cup (IHL): 1999 as a coach

Personal awards

• WCHA Second All-Star Team: 1983
• Commissioner's Trophy : 1999
• Jack Adams Award : 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sports.espn.go.com, Tippett named most outstanding coach

Web links

• Dave Tippett at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dave Tippett at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Dave Tippett in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )