Glen Hanlon

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Flag of Canada.svg  Glen Hanlon Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 20, 1957
place of birth Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
Nickname Red
size 183 cm
Weight 84 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 3rd round, 40th position
Vancouver Canucks
WHA Amateur Draft 1977 , 3rd round, 30th position
Houston Eros
Career stations
1974-1977 Brandon Wheat Kings
1977-1988 Tulsa Oilers
1978-1982 Vancouver Canucks
1982 St. Louis Blues
1982-1986 New York Rangers
1986-1991 Detroit Red Wings

Glen A. "Red" Hanlon (born February 20, 1957 in Brandon , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach who has been the manager of the Vancouver Giants in the Western Hockey League (WHL) since May 2016 .

Player career

Glen Hanlon was selected ( drafted ) in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft as 40th in the third round of the Vancouver Canucks . The Canadian played for the Canucks from 1977 to 1982 , after which he moved to the St. Louis Blues . Other NHL stations were the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings . Hanlon achieved unwanted fame when he allowed Wayne Gretzky's first NHL career goal in the 1979/80 season .

Coaching career

Hanlon as coach of Jokerit Helsinki

After he had ended his active career with the Red Wings in 1991 , Hanlon became an assistant coach at his former club, the Vancouver Canucks, after a three-year stint with the Washington farm team Portland Pirates , he became the Capitals assistant to Bruce Cassidy , whom he eventually during the 2003/04 season heir as head coach. Until November 2007 he was the head coach of the Washington Capitals . Because of unsuccessfulness he was fired and replaced by Bruce Boudreau .

At the ice hockey world championship in 2005 he also led the Belarusian national team to tenth place, in 2006 this result was exceeded with sixth place, and thus the best result in Belarusian ice hockey history.

In the 2008/09 season , Hanlon looked after the Finnish first division club Jokerit Helsinki and reached the playoff quarter-finals of the SM-liiga with this .

For the men's ice hockey world championship in 2009 , the Belarusians were hired again as coach before he gave up this post in early November 2009. During the 2009-10 season , Hanlon was the coach of HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League before he was released on October 20, 2009. In March 2010 he was introduced as the new head coach of the Slovak national team. His contract, dated until 2014, was terminated after the 2011 World Cup. Hanlon had led Slovakia to twelfth place at the 2010 World Cup and tenth place at the 2011 World Cup.

After the end of his activity in Slovakia, he took over the post of assistant coach at the Vancouver Giants from the Western Hockey League (WHL) before he was again head coach of the Belarusian national team in May 2013 . In 2013, Hanlon led Belarus to victory at the Arosa Challenge . In May 2014 Hanlon signed a two-year contract as head coach of the Swiss national team and won the Arosa Challenge 2014 with it. In October 2015, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement.

On May 19, 2016, Hanlon was named manager of the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League (WHL). After the 2017/18 season he left the Giants and was introduced as the new coach of the DVTK Jegesmedvék in June 2018 .

For the 2020/21 season, Hanlon became the new head coach of the DEL team Krefeld Pinguine .

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Victory cut Conceded goal Shutouts
Regular season 14th 477 0.350 3.60 13
Playoffs 9 35 0.314 3.14 4th

Achievements and Awards

Individual evidence

  1. hockeyfans.ch/, scandal: Belarus coach resigned
  2. hockeyfans.ch, coach chatter in Belarus
  3. Nati wins Arosa Challenge. Accessed December 27, 2014.
  4. Glen Hanlon no longer national coach. In: zsz.ch. Retrieved March 14, 2016 .
  5. ^ Giants name Glen Hanlon GM - Vancouver Giants. In: vancouvergiants.com. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  6. ^ Glen Hanlon out as general manager of the Vancouver Giants . In: The Vancouver Sun . 15th May 2018.
  7. Glen Hanlon a DVTK Jegesmedvék vezetőedzője . In: dvtk.eu . June 18, 2018.

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