Jim Bedard
Date of birth | November 14, 1956 |
place of birth | Niagara Falls , Ontario , Canada |
size | 183 cm |
Weight | 81 kg |
position | goalkeeper |
Catch hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Amateur Draft |
1976 , 6th round, 91st position Washington Capitals |
WHA Amateur Draft |
1976 , 9th lap, 106th position Edmonton Oilers |
Career stations | |
1972-1973 | Welland Sabers |
1973-1976 | Sudbury Wolves |
1976-1977 | Dayton Gems |
1977-1979 | Washington Capitals |
1979-1980 | Dayton Gems |
1980-1982 | TPS Turku |
1982-1983 | Ketterä Imatra |
1983-1987 | TuTo Turku |
1987-1989 | HPK Hämeenlinna |
1989-1992 | Kiekko-67 Turku |
1992-1993 | Turku HT |
1993-1994 | TuTo Turku |
James Arthur Bedard (born November 14, 1956 in Niagara Falls , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalie and current goalie coach of the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League .
Career
Jim Bedard began his career in lower class youth leagues before moving to the Sudbury Wolves in 1973 in the Canadian Junior League OHA , which was renamed OMJHL a year later. In Sudbury Bedard was able to convince with good performances. In 1975 the team moved into the semi-finals of the playoffs and in the following year they only had to admit defeat to the Hamilton Fincups in the final . Bedard received after the 1975/76 season also the Dave Pinkney Trophy for the fewest goals conceded and was elected to the First All-Star Team of the league.
Through his achievements Bedard had also drawn the attention of the professional teams to himself, whereupon he was selected by the Washington Capitals in the NHL Amateur Draft 1976 in the sixth round in position 91 and at the same time by the Edmonton Oilers in the WHA Amateur Draft in the tenth round in position 106 was drafted . Bedard decided to play for the Washington Capitals, but spent the following season in the IHL with the Dayton Gems .
For the 1977/78 season he was appointed to the NHL squad of the Capitals and played most of the games as a regular goalkeeper, but was only able to win eleven of 43 games. The following year he formed the Washington goalkeeper team with Gary Inness and Bernie Wolfe , but the season was almost as unsuccessful as the previous one. In the following season Bedard was no longer part of the NHL squad of the Capitals and played the 1979/80 season with several teams in lower-class leagues.
In the summer of 1980 he moved to Finland, where he was signed by TPS Turku from the SM-liiga . With TPS he finished third in the league in 1981 and was runner-up in 1982. 1982/83 he played for Ketterä Imatra in the Finnish second division before he spent four seasons with TuTo Hockey in the second division. In 1987 Bedard moved within the league to HPK Hämeenlinna with whom he rose to the SM-Liiga and was a goalkeeper there for a year. He then went back to the second division and played three years at KooKoo and one season at third division Turku HT before he played one last season as a goalkeeper of TuTo Hockey and ended his career in 1994.
Bedard then returned to North America and was hired in the summer of 1994 as a goalkeeping coach by the Niagara Falls Thunder from the Canadian junior league OHL . The largely unsuccessful team relocated in 1996 and called themselves Erie Otters from then on . Bedard followed the team and stayed another year as an assistant coach before he was hired in 1997 by the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL as an advisor for goalkeeping matters. In this position he supervised Chris Osgood , Manny Legace , Curtis Joseph and Dominik Hašek in the following years and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 1998 and 2002 .
In 2002 Bedard was officially named goalkeeping coach for the Red Wings. Since the lockout and the failure of the 2004/05 season , Detroit has always been one of the three teams with the lowest conceded goal average in the following three seasons and in 2007/08 Chris Osgood and Dominik Hašek could win the William M. Jennings Trophy for the fewest goals conceded. So he also had a share in the renewed Stanley Cup victory in the summer of 2008. In addition to looking after the NHL goalkeepers, Bedard is also responsible for the goalkeepers of the Red Wings AHL farm team, the Grand Rapids Griffins .
Achievements and Awards
As a player
- 1976 OMJHL First All-Star Team
- 1976 Dave Pinkney Trophy
As a trainer
- 1998 Stanley Cup winner with the Detroit Red Wings (as goalkeeping coach)
- 2002 Stanley Cup winner with the Detroit Red Wings (as goalkeeping coach)
- 2008 Stanley Cup winner with the Detroit Red Wings (as goalkeeping coach)
Web links
- Jim Bedard at hockeydb.com (English)
- Jim Bedard at hockeydraftcentral.com
- Jim Bedard at hockeygoalies.org
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bedard, Jim |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bedard, James Arthur |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Niagara Falls (Ontario) , Ontario |