Greg Ireland

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Coaching stations
1992-1994 Oakville Blades
1994-1998 Caledon Canadians
1998-2003 Dayton Bombers
2003-2007 Grand Rapids Griffins
2007-2010 San Antonio Rampage
2011 HC Lugano
2011-2015 Owen Sound Attack
2015-2016 Adler Mannheim
2017-2019 HC Lugano
since 2020 HC Bolzano

Greg Ireland (born October 5, 1965 in Orangeville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach who has been under contract as head coach at HC Bozen from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League since January 2020 .

Career

Greg Ireland began his coaching career in 1992 as the head coach of the Oakville Blades in the Canadian youth league COJHL. For the 1994/95 season he moved to the Caledon Canadians in the MTJHL, before he took over the Dayton Bombers in the professional league ECHL from 1998/99, where he held his longest post as head coach for five consecutive seasons.

2003/04 Ireland finally left the ECHL and moved to the American Hockey League as an assistant coach to the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings . In the middle of the 2004/05 season Ireland was promoted to head coach of the team and remained in this position until 2006/07 before he took over the San Antonio Rampage for three seasons .

In February 2011, Greg Ireland finally started his first stop in Europe when he was signed for the postseason by HC Lugano from the National League A to save the club from relegation. The project succeeded and Ireland moved again to North America to coach the youth team Owen Sound Attack in the Canadian Ontario Hockey League .

In mid-July 2015 Ireland asked the management of Owen Sound Attack to terminate its one-year contract in order to be able to accept a job offer from a higher-class league. Shortly afterwards it was announced that Ireland would succeed Geoff Ward as the new head coach of Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League and would receive a contract there until the end of the 2016/2017 season. In February 2016, the Eagles separated from Ireland after falling well short of sporting expectations in the current season .

On January 16, 2017, Ireland succeeded Doug Shedden as the head coach of HC Lugano in the National League A (NLA). He led the "Bianconeri" into the playoff semifinals, where the team was eliminated with 1: 4 wins against SC Bern . In April 2017, he signed a two-year contract extension with HCL. After losing 4-0 in the quarter-finals against EV Zug with Lugano in the 2018/19 season , Ireland and the club separated.

At the beginning of January 2020, he was hired as head coach by HC Bozen with games in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga and replaced his compatriot Clayton Beddoes there . At the end of March 2020 he also became the new national coach for Italy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Griffins name Greg Ireland head coach. In: oursportscentral.com. February 10, 2005, accessed July 22, 2015 .
  2. Greg Ireland is supposed to save Lugano. In: Basler Zeitung . February 23, 2011, accessed July 22, 2015 .
  3. ^ Attack coach Greg Ireland resigns. (No longer available online.) In: owensoundsuntimes.com. July 19, 2015, archived from the original on July 22, 2015 ; accessed on July 22, 2015 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.owensoundsuntimes.com
  4. adler-mannheim.de Adler Mannheim sign Greg Ireland as the new head coach ( memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adler-mannheim.de
  5. adler-mannheim.de The eagles part with Greg Ireland ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / adler-mannheim.de
  6. Shedden and Curcio gone, Ireland and Silander there. (No longer available online.) In: hclugano.ch. Archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hclugano.ch
  7. sport.ch: SC Bern prevailed 4: 1 in a dramatic series - Arrivederci Lugano! - These moments will be remembered. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .
  8. Ireland's sky shines over HC Lugano. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 13, 2017 ; accessed on April 13, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hclugano.ch
  9. https://www.volksblatt.li/nachrichten/Schweiz/Sport/sda/301868/greg-ireland-nicht-mehr-lugano-trainer
  10. Greg Ireland is the new coach on the white and red bench. In: Südtirol News. Retrieved on March 22, 2020 (German).
  11. Greg Ireland becomes national coach of Italy. March 22, 2020, accessed March 22, 2020 .