Jim Wiley

Jim Wiley
Date of birth	April 28, 1950
place of birth	Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1965-1968	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1968-1972	Lake Superior State University
1972-1974	Pittsburgh Penguins
1974-1975	Seattle totems
1975-1980	Tulsa Oilers

Jim Thomas Wiley (born April 28, 1950 in Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League from 1973 to 1977 . During the 1995/96 season he took over on an interim basis for 57 games as the head coach of the San Jose Sharks .

Career as a player

Wiley, a center , had first played in lower-class leagues when he moved to the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League in 1972 . After good performances, he was signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins during the season . Wiley played four games this season for the Penguins in the NHL , preparing a goal. For the Hershey Bears, Wiley scored 75 points in 71 games. The Canadian also spent the 1973/74 season with the Bears, for which he played 47 games and won the Calder Cup , and the Penguins, where he was on the ice in 22 games. The following season he ran for a game for the Vancouver Canucks after they had received him in 1974 from the Penguins. He spent the rest of the season with the Seattle Totems in the Central Hockey League (CHL), with whom he won the championship. He himself was the league's top scorer during the season . Wiley also spent large parts of the 1975/76 season in the CHL with the Toledo Storm , before the Vancouver Canucks brought him back to the NHL for two games. In the 1976/77 season he played for both Toledo and the Canucks, where he set personal NHL records in the categories of goals, assists and points. The seasons 1977/78, 1978/79 and 1979/80 let Wiley end his career in Toledo.

Achievements and Awards

• 1972 NCAA (College Div.) West All-American Team
• 1974 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 1975 CHL First All-Star Team
• 1976 CHL Leading Top Scorer

NHL player stats

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	5	63	4th	10	14th	8th
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career as a coach

After his career as a player, Wiley took the place behind the gang from 1984. His first coaching position was with the Des Moines Buccaneers in the United States Hockey League (USHL). There Wiley remained head coach for six years until 1990 with rather average success. After a three-year hiatus, the Canadian took over the post as head coach of the Kansas City Blades , the then farm team of the San Jose Sharks in the International Hockey League (IHL). Despite a positive season balance in the first year, the team missed the move into the playoffs, but succeeded in the following season, although the team's balance was worse than last year. In the end they even reached the Turner Cup finals, where they lost 4-0 in the series. The 1995/96 season began Wiley initially with the blades. After the expulsion of the then coach of the San Jose Sharks, Kevin Constantine , Wiley took over for the remaining 57 games of the NHL season as interim coach the post behind the gang with the Sharks. With a record of 17 wins, 37 losses and three draws, Wiley could not recommend himself for a long-term commitment as a Sharks coach. For the 1996/97 season, the Canadian took over the Kentucky Thoroughblades , the new farm team San Joses in the AHL. In the two seasons that Wiley looked after the team, he led it twice in the playoffs, where you always failed in the first round. Other coaching stations of the Canadian were the Lexington Men O'War in the East Coast Hockey League during the 2002/03 season and the Memphis Riverkings in the CHL during the 2003/04 season, but where he lost his post as coach after half of the season .

NHL coaching statistics

	Seasons	Games	S.	N	U	OTL
Regular season	1	57	17th	37	3	0
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

S = victories; N = defeats; U = tie; OTL = overtime defeat

Web links

• Jim Wiley at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jim Wiley at hockeydb.com (English)