Graeme Townshend

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JamaicaJamaica  Graeme Townshend Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 23, 1965
place of birth Kingston , Jamaica
size 188 cm
Weight 102 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1985-1989 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1989-1991 Boston Bruins
1991-1993 Capital District Islanders
1993-1994 Ottawa Senators
1994-1997 Houston Eros
1997-1999 Lake Charles Ice Pirates

Graeme Scott Townshend (* 23. October 1965 in Kingston ) is a former Jamaican hockey player and - coaches , who in his active period 1985 to 1999, including for the Boston Bruins , New York Islanders and Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League has played . Since 2008 he has been a skating coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL.

Career

Graeme Townshend, who at the age of four with his family in the Canadian Toronto in the province of Ontario immigrated, began his career as a hockey player in the team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , for which he 1985-1989 in the National Collegiate Athletic Association was active . He then received a contract as a free agent with the Boston Bruins , for which he was the first Jamaican to make his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1989/90 season . However, he spent most of the season - just as in the following season - with their farm team , the Maine Mariners from the American Hockey League . After two years, the attacker left the Bruins and also signed as a free agent with the New York Islanders , for which he was also only sporadically used in the NHL until 1993 and instead ran for their AHL farm team. After Townshend had remained pointless in 14 games in the 1993/94 season , he left the NHL and played until 1997 in the International Hockey League for the Houston Eros and the Utah Grizzlies . The winger finally ended his active career following the 1998/99 season with the Lake Charles Ice Pirates from the Western Professional Hockey League .

Immediately after his career as a player, Townshend took over as head coach of the Macon Whoopee from the Central Hockey League , which he was in charge of from 1999 to 2001. He then signed a contract with the Greensboro Generals from the East Coast Hockey League , where he was released during the 2001/02 season . In the following years the Jamaican was active for four years in the coaching staff of the San Jose Sharks from the NHL, where he worked as a skating coach under Ron Wilson . In the same position, he has been with the Toronto Maple Leafs since September 9, 2008 , where Wilson and his assistants Rob Zettler and Tim Hunter moved on during the summer break after they had been released by the Northern Californians.

In December 2011, Townshend was named Jamaica's first national ice hockey coach by EJ Phillips, co-founder of the Jamaican Olympic Ice Hockey Federation (JOIHF) . He first appeared as the national coach of the Caribbean state in August 2014 when he led the first player sightings. Townshend, who is also Jamaica's U-20 national coach, plans to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics with the senior team .

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 5 45 3 7th 10 28
Playoffs - - - - - -

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saco to Pursues dream of Olympic hockey team for Jamaica . In: Portland Press Herald . Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hockey players lace up for a shot at Team Jamaica . In: Toronto Star Newspaper . Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ Jamaica wants in on Olympic hockey
personal data
SURNAME Townshend, Graeme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Townshend, Graeme Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica