Jeff Blashill

Jeff Blashill
Date of birth	December 10, 1973
place of birth	Southfield , Michigan , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
1991-1994	Des Moines Buccaneers
1994-1998	Ferris State University

Jeff Blashill (born December 10, 1973 in Southfield , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey coach . In June 2015 he took over as the new head coach of the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League , after having spent four years in their organization. Previously, he was active as a coach at college and junior level, beyond which he as an active player ( goalkeeper ) had not gotten.

Career

As a player

Jeff Blashill was born in Southfield, a suburb of the city of Detroit , but grew up in Sault Ste. Marie , also from Michigan . This move was due professionally, since his father gave the police profession in Detroit to a thing of the Lake Superior State University in the subject criminal jurisdiction to lecture . It was only in the new university environment (the family lived on campus) that Jeff Blashill began playing ice hockey, where he held the position of goalkeeper from the start . As a child he often played with the Lakers , the university team, street hockey in the area, among whose players, for example, Sandy Moger was. Blashill stayed in Sault Ste until 1991. Marie when he left high school as a freshman to join the Des Moines Buccaneers in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the top junior league in the United States. During his three years in Des Moines , Iowa , he attended Valley High School to continue his academic career.

In 1994 he left Des Moines to study at Ferris State University in Michigan; at the same time he guarded the gate for the Ferris State Bulldogs in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). It became clear that the American would not make it into the National Hockey League or the professional area as an active player, so in four years and 78 games for the Bulldogs he scored an average of 3.89 goals against and a catch rate of 84, 8th %.

As a trainer

Jeff Blashill
Coaching stations
1998-2002	Ferris State University (assistant coach)
2002-2008	Miami University (assistant coach)
2008-2010	Indiana Ice
2010-2011	Western Michigan University
2011–2012	Detroit Red Wings (Assistant Coach)
2012-2015	Grand Rapids Griffins
since 2015	Detroit Red Wings

Junior area

After graduating from Ferris State with a bachelor's degree in finance in 1998, coach Bob Daniels offered him the position of assistant coach. Blashill accepted the offer and was mainly responsible for the scouting and player recruitment for the Bulldogs over the next four years . He assumed a similar area of ​​responsibility in 2002 when he moved to Miami University , where he worked for the RedHawks under Enrico Blasi . In 2008, the American took over his first head coach position when he took over the Indiana Ice from the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States. In his first season he won the playoffs with the team and thus the Clark Cup ; he also set a new franchise record with 39 victories in one season . About the turn of the year 2008/09 he took part with the U20 national team of the United States in the U20 World Cup and was head coach Ron Rolston as an assistant.

After another year in Indianapolis, where he reached the semifinals with the Ice , Blashill was introduced as the new head coach of the Broncos at Western Michigan University . In his only season at the university, he led the team for the first time since 1986 in the final of the CCHA playoffs, where one was, however , defeated by his previous team, the Miami Redhawks . Blashill was a finalist for the CCHA Coach of the Year Award that year ; in addition, Danny DeKeyser played under him at this time , whose head coach he would later be at the Red Wings.

Detroit Red Wings

In July 2011 Blashill left Western Michigan University and took the post as assistant coach under Mike Babcock at the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League (NHL). After a year, he was introduced in June 2012 as the new head coach of the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Red Wings from the American Hockey League (AHL). He thus succeeded Curt Fraser, who had migrated to the Dallas Stars, and at the same time took up his first head coach position in the professional field. In his first year at Grand Rapids, Blashill won the playoff directly and won the first Calder Cup in the history of the franchise.

This so far greatest success of his coaching career he could not repeat in the following two years, although he reached at least the second playoff round with the Griffins, which had not been achieved by any other coach in three consecutive years. He also took part in the AHL All-Star Classic during the 2013/14 season and was honored with the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award for the AHL's best coach at the end of the season . After the 2014/15 season, Mike Babcock moved to the Toronto Maple Leafs , so Blashill took his place as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings. At that time he was the second youngest NHL coach after John Hynes of the New Jersey Devils and at the same time the first American in the history of the Red Wings coach.

After missing the 2017 playoffs with Red Wings, he represented his home country as head coach at the 2017 World Cup , where he finished fifth with Team USA .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Clark Cup win with the Indiana Ice
• 2013 Calder Cup win with the Grand Rapids Griffins
• 2014 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2014 Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award
• 2018 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Player statistics

				Regular season
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U / OT	Min.	GT	SO	GTS
1991/92	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		10	7th	0	0	417	15th	0	2.16
1992/93	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		25th	18th	4th	0	1346	77	0	3.43
1993/94	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		26th	no further data available
1994/95	Ferris State University	NCAA		26th	10	10	3	1355	88	0	3.90
1995/96	Ferris State University	NCAA		32	11	18th	2	1839	108	2	3.52
1996/97	Ferris State University	NCAA		16	5	8th	0	726	58	0	4.79
1997/98	Ferris State University	NCAA		4th	1	0	0	103	7th	0	4.07
NCAA overall				78	27	36	5	4023	261	2	3.89

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Coach statistics

team	league	season	Regular season						Playoffs
			Games	S.	N	U / OTL	Pt	space	S.	N	result
Indiana Ice	USHL	2008/09	60	39	19th	2	80	3.	9	4th	Clark Cup win
Indiana Ice	USHL	2009/10	60	33	24	3	69	6th	4th	5	Semifinals
Western Michigan University	CCHA	2010/11	28	10	9	9	44	4th	3	2	final
Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL	2012/13	76	42	26th	8th	92	7th	15th	9	Calder Cup win
Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL	2013/14	76	46	23	7th	99	5.	5	5	Conference semifinals
Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL	2014/15	76	46	22nd	8th	100	5.	9	7th	Conference finals
Detroit Red Wings	NHL	2015/16	82	41	30th	11	93	15th	1	4th	1 round
Detroit Red Wings	NHL	2016/17	82	33	36	13	79	25th	-	-	not qualified
Detroit Red Wings	NHL	2017/18	82	30th	39	13	73	27.	-	-	not qualified
Detroit Red Wings	NHL	2018/19	82	32	40	10	74	28.	-	-	not qualified
Detroit Red Wings	NHL	2019/20	71	17th	49	5	39	31.	-	-	not qualified
USHL total			120	72	43	5	149	-	13	9	1 Clark Cup
AHL total			228	134	71	24	291	-	29	21st	1 Calder Cup
NHL overall			399	153	194	52	358	-	1	4th	no Stanley Cup

( Legend to coach statistics: S = victories; N = defeats; U = draws; OTL = defeat in overtime or shootout ; pts = points)

Personal

Blashill is married and has three children, two sons and a daughter. He was born the third of four children, had two older sisters and a younger brother who later also became active as a player and coach in ice hockey.

Web links

• Jeff Blashill at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jeff Blashill at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Bill Roose: Wired for success, Blashill is new coach. redwings.nhl.com, June 9, 2015, accessed June 30, 2015 (English). 
2. ↑ Jeff Blashill. (No longer available online.) Griffinshockey.com, archived from the original on March 28, 2014 ; accessed on June 30, 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.  
3. ↑ Profile. (No longer available online.) Wmubroncos.com, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 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.  
4. ↑ Bill Roose: Blashill hire was a year in the making. redwings.nhl.com, June 9, 2015, accessed June 30, 2015 (English).