Gerard Gallant
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Date of birth | 2nd September 1963 |
place of birth | Summerside , Prince Edward Island , Canada |
size | 178 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | Left wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1981 , 6th lap, 107th position Detroit Red Wings |
Career stations | |
1980-1982 | Castors de Sherbrooke |
1982-1983 |
Castors de Saint-Jean Junior de Verdun |
1983-1984 | Adirondack Red Wings |
1984-1993 | Detroit Red Wings |
1993-1995 | Tampa Bay Lightning |
1995-1996 | Detroit Vipers |
Gerard A. Gallant (born September 2, 1963 in Summerside , Prince Edward Island ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active career, the left winger completed over 600 games for the Detroit Red Wings and the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League . He also won the silver medal at the 1989 World Cup with the Canadian national team . Most recently, he served as the first head coach of the Vegas Golden Knights from 2017 to 2020 and led them to the 2018 Stanley Cup final , after having already looked after the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Florida Panthers in the NHL in the same role .
Career
As a player
Gallant played during his time in the junior division with the Castors de Sherbrooke in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ). In the 1981 NHL Entry Draft , the Detroit Red Wings selected him in the sixth round in 107th position. During the 1982/93 season he moved within the LHJMQ to the Verdun Juniors , where he played together with Pat LaFontaine . As in the previous year, he and his team reached the final tournament for the Memorial Cup , but for the second time it was not enough to win the cup.
In the American Hockey League he played with the Adirondack Red Wings . Here he was able to prove that he was able to assert himself physically in addition to his scoring threat. During the 1984/85 season , the Detroit Red Wings brought him from the farm team to the NHL. He never avoided a fight and suffered a broken jaw in a fight with Dirk Graham , which set him back in his development. In the 1986/87 season he exceeded the 30-goal mark for the first time and was the second best scorer in the team behind Steve Yzerman . He took second place in the following three seasons and regularly left players like Adam Oates behind. He had to serve over 200 penalty minutes in each of the seasons. He reached his career best with 93 points in the 1988/89 season and was then elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team , before winning the silver medal at the 1989 World Cup with the Canadian national team .
After nine seasons in Detroit he moved to the 1993/94 season as a free agent for Tampa Bay Lightning . He could not build on the performances of earlier days and he also played some games in the International Hockey League with the Atlanta Knights and Detroit Vipers . In training with the Vipers, he suffered a back injury in late 1995, which forced him to end his career.
As a trainer
After a few coaching positions in minor leagues , the Louisville Panthers hired him in 1999 as an assistant coach in the AHL. A year later he became an assistant with the Columbus Blue Jackets . During the 2003/04 season he took over the team from Doug MacLean as head coach. A poor start to the 2006/07 season pushed Blue Jackets officials to fire him on November 13, 2006.
From 2007 to 2009 he was assistant coach for the New York Islanders with his junior teammate, John Chabot . At the 2007 Ice Hockey World Championship , Gallant was the assistant coach of the Canadian selection . For the 2009/10 season he took over the duties of head coach at the Saint John Sea Dogs . In his debut season, he reached several franchise records with the team and exceeded the 100 point mark in the regular season. In the playoffs, the team only failed in the finals for the Coupe du Président against the Moncton Wildcats . Gallant was subsequently awarded the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award for the Canadian Hockey League's best head coach of the year . In the 2010/11 season, the Sea Dogs won the championship in the QMJHL for the first time. Gallant was honored for the second year in a row as the best head coach in the league with the Trophée Ron Lapointe . In the same season he won the Memorial Cup for the first time with the Saint John Sea Dogs and won the 2011 edition of the tournament. In the following season Gallant was able to defend the title in the QMJHL with the Sea Dogs, but in the Memorial Cup the team failed in the semifinals due to the Cataractes de Shawinigan .
On June 15, 2012, the Canadiens de Montréal announced that they had signed Gerard Gallant as Michel Therrien's assistant coach . After two years with the Canadiens, the Florida Panthers signed him in June 2014 as their new head coach. After leading the Panthers to the top of the Atlantic Division in the 2015/16 season, he was dismissed in November 2016 and succeeded by Tom Rowe , who was only introduced as General Manager in May 2016 .
After six months without an employer, Gallant was introduced by the Vegas Golden Knights in mid-April 2017 as the first head coach in franchise history . A little later, he stood behind the gang as Jon Cooper's assistant at the 2017 World Cup , where he won the silver medal with the Canadian national team . With the Golden Knights he broke numerous records in the debut season and led the team to the final of the Stanley Cup , but lost to the Washington Capitals there . At the end of the season he was awarded the Jack Adams Award for best NHL coach.
After about two and a half years in Vegas, Gallant was unexpectedly fired in January 2020 and replaced by Peter DeBoer . At this point, the Golden Knights finished fifth in their division, only three points behind first place, while he was personally scheduled as the coach of the Pacific Division in the upcoming NHL All-Star Game .
Achievements and Awards
As a player
- 1982 Coupe du Président win with the Castors de Sherbrooke
- 1983 Coupe du Président win with the Junior de Verdun
- 1983 QMJHL Third All-Star Team
- 1989 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 1989 silver medal at the world championship
As a trainer
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Career statistics
Player statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
1980/81 | Castors de Sherbrooke | LHJMQ | 68 | 41 | 60 | 101 | 220 | 14th | 6th | 13 | 19th | 46 | ||||
1981/82 | Castors de Sherbrooke | LHJMQ | 58 | 34 | 58 | 92 | 252 | 22nd | 14th | 24 | 38 | 82 | ||||
1982 | Castors de Sherbrooke | Memorial Cup | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 28 | |||||||||
1982/83 | Castors de Saint-Jean | LHJMQ | 33 | 28 | 25th | 53 | 129 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1982/83 | Junior de Verdun | LHJMQ | 29 | 26th | 49 | 75 | 105 | 15th | 14th | 19th | 33 | 86 | ||||
1983 | Junior de Verdun | Memorial Cup | 4th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 23 | |||||||||
1983/84 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 77 | 31 | 33 | 64 | 195 | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 34 | ||||
1984/85 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 46 | 18th | 29 | 47 | 131 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1984/85 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 32 | 6th | 12 | 18th | +10 | 66 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 11 | ||
1985/86 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 52 | 20th | 19th | 39 | –9 | 106 | 16 | 4th | 13 | 17th | 20th | |||
1986/87 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 80 | 38 | 34 | 72 | -4 | 216 | 16 | 8th | 6th | 14th | -1 | 43 | ||
1987/88 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 73 | 34 | 39 | 73 | +24 | 242 | 16 | 6th | 9 | 15th | -5 | 55 | ||
1988/89 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 76 | 39 | 54 | 93 | +7 | 230 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 40 | ||
1989/90 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 69 | 36 | 44 | 80 | –6 | 254 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1990/91 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 45 | 10 | 16 | 26th | +6 | 111 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1991/92 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 69 | 14th | 22nd | 36 | +16 | 187 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4th | -4 | 25th | ||
1992/93 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 67 | 10 | 20th | 30th | +20 | 188 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 4th | ||
1993/94 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 51 | 4th | 9 | 13 | –6 | 74 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | Atlanta Knights | IHL | 16 | 3 | 3 | 6th | -8th | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1995/96 | Detroit Vipers | IHL | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
LHJMQ total | 188 | 129 | 192 | 321 | 706 | 51 | 34 | 56 | 90 | 214 | ||||||
IHL total | 19th | 5 | 4th | 9 | 37 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
AHL total | 123 | 49 | 62 | 111 | 326 | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 34 | ||||||
NHL overall | 615 | 211 | 269 | 480 | +58 | 1674 | 58 | 18th | 21st | 39 | -18 | 178 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1991 | Canada | WM |
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8th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
Men overall | 8th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
( 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 )
NHL coaching statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | ||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | S. | N | U / OT | Pt | Pt% | Place (division) | Sp | S. | N | result | ||
2003/04 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 45 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 37 | .411 | 4. ( Central ) | not qualified | |||||
2005/06 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 82 | 35 | 43 | 4th | 74 | .451 | 3. (Central) | not qualified | |||||
2006/07 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 15th | 5 | 9 | 1 | 11 | .367 | dismiss | ||||||
2014/15 | Florida panthers | NHL | 82 | 38 | 29 | 15th | 91 | .555 | 6. ( Atlantic ) | not qualified | |||||
2015/16 | Florida panthers | NHL | 82 | 47 | 26th | 9 | 103 | .628 | 1. (Atlantic) | 6th | 2 | 4th | Conference quarterfinals | ||
2016/17 | Florida panthers | NHL | 21st | 11 | 9 | 1 | 23 | .548 | dismiss | ||||||
2017/18 | Vegas Golden Knights | NHL | 82 | 51 | 24 | 7th | 109 | .665 | 1. ( Pacific ) | 20th | 13 | 7th | Stanley Cup Final | ||
2018/19 | Vegas Golden Knights | NHL | 82 | 43 | 32 | 7th | 93 | .567 | 3. (Pacific) | 7th | 3 | 4th | Conference quarterfinals | ||
2019/20 | Vegas Golden Knights | NHL | 49 | 24 | 19th | 6th | 54 | .551 | dismiss | ||||||
NHL overall | 541 | 270 | 216 | 55 | 595 | .550 | 2 division titles | 33 | 18th | 15th | 0 Stanley Cups |
( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )
Web links
- Gerard Gallant at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Gerard Gallant at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Gerard Gallant at hockeydraftcentral.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Milo: Gerard Gallant confirmé comme un des adjoints de Michel Therrien avec le Canadien , LNH.com, May 15, 2012
- ↑ nhl.com: "Gerard Gallant Named New Coach of Florida Panthers" (English, June 21, 2014, accessed June 27, 2014)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gallant, Gerard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallant, Gerard A. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Summerside , Prince Edward Island , Canada |