Joel Quenneville

Joel Quenneville
Date of birth	September 15, 1958
place of birth	Windsor , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1978 , 2nd round, 21st position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1975-1988	Windsor Spitfires
1978-1979	Toronto Maple Leafs
1979-1982	Colorado Rockies
1982-1983	New Jersey Devils
1983-1990	Hartford Whalers
1990-1991	Baltimore Skipjacks
1991-1992	St. John's Maple Leafs

Joel Norman Quenneville (born September 15, 1958 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active career of graduated defenders over 800 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), the bulk of it for the Hartford Whalers and for the franchise of the Colorado Rockies / New Jersey Devils . He was then best known as the head coach in the NHL, so he first supervised the St. Louis Blues (1997-2004) and the Colorado Avalanche (2005-2008) and was awarded the Jack Adams Award as the best head coach in 2000 League excellent. From 2008 to 2018 he was in charge of the Chicago Blackhawks , with whom the Canadian won the Stanley Cup in 2010 , 2013 and 2015 . Since April 2019 he has been working in the same position with the Florida Panthers . In the NHL coaching all -time table , only Scotty Bowman recorded more games or wins than Quenneville.

Career as a player

Joel Quenneville began his career in 1975 in the Canadian Junior League OHL with the Windsor Spitfires . There he showed not only his skills in defense, but also in attack. In the 1977/78 season he reached 103 points in 66 games. He was then selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft in the second round at position 21.

Already in the 1978/79 season he was for the Maple Leafs in the NHL and played for the team until the end of 1979, when he was transferred to the Colorado Rockies together with Lanny McDonald . However, the team had no sporting or financial success. Therefore, it moved to New Jersey in the summer of 1982 and renamed the New Jersey Devils .

After a season in New Jersey, Quenneville was transferred to the Calgary Flames for Mel Bridgman at the end of June 1983 , but they only sent him to the Hartford Whalers in another transfer business a few days later .

He spent most of his career in Hartford. Again and again he had to pause due to injuries and from 1988 took over the job as one of the radio commentators of the Whalers during injury breaks. He was voted the most valuable defender within the team twice and was alternate captain of the Whalers from 1984 to 1989 .

In autumn 1990 the Whalers him to sell Washington Capitals , however, where he played only nine games and the rest of the season with the Baltimore Skipjacks , the AHL - farm team of the Capitals completed.

At the beginning of the 1991/92 season he returned to his roots as a professional ice hockey player and signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. But they no longer used him in the NHL. Instead, he played for their farm team St. John's Maple Leafs in the AHL, where he also worked as an assistant coach.

In the summer of 1992 Quenneville finally ended his career as a player.

NHL player stats

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	13	803	54	136	190	705
Playoffs	5	32	0	8th	8th	22nd

Career as a coach

Joel Quenneville
Coaching stations
1993-1994	Springfield Indians
1997-2004	St. Louis Blues
2005-2008	Colorado Avalanche
2008-2018	Chicago Blackhawks
since 2019	Florida panthers

He remained, however, the St. John's Maple Leafs as an assistant coach before he was head coach of the Springfield Indians in the AHL in 1993 .

After a year in Springfield, he was hired in 1994 by the NHL team Québec Nordiques as an assistant coach, where he should work together with the 33-year-old head coach Marc Crawford . In the summer of 1995, the franchise was relocated to Denver and renamed Colorado Avalanche . In the very first season in their new home, the team won the Stanley Cup .

In early 1997, the St. Louis Blues fired their head coach Jim Roberts because the playoff participation was in jeopardy. They then offered Quenneville the post, which received clearance from the Colorado Avalanche and was thus allowed to train an NHL team for the first time. He actually managed to qualify for the playoffs with the team, but failed in the first round at the eventual Stanley Cup winner Detroit Red Wings .

In St. Louis he built a strong team over the years, which ended the regular season 1999/2000 as the best team in the league and thus set a franchise record. Star defender Chris Pronger was named the NHL's most valuable player and best defender, goalkeeper Roman Turek conceded the fewest goals and Pavol Demitra was honored as the fairest player. Quenneville himself received the Jack Adams Award for the NHL's best coach. However, the team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

Quenneville had a special relationship with the city of Denver, having played for the Colorado Rockies and won the Stanley Cup as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche. In 2001 the city should be the focus for him twice. In January 2001 he was the head coach of the North American selection in the NHL Allstar Game , which took place in Denver. In the playoffs, the Blues did better this season than last year and made it to the final of the Western Conference, where they failed of all things because of the Colorado Avalanche, which then won their second Stanley Cup.

In the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons , the Blues brought consistent performances, but could not achieve much in the playoffs. During the 2003-04 season , the team began to weaken slightly, after which Quenneville was sacked.

But only a few months later he was back in business and he returned to Denver, where he took over the post of head coach of the Colorado Avalanche. But he could not start his work immediately because the 2004/05 season was canceled due to the lockout .

The 2005/06 season was a bit problematic, but in the end the team was able to qualify for the playoffs. With the 2006/07 season , Quenneville reached a low point with the Avalanche when they missed the playoffs for the first time. The following year they returned to the playoffs, but after a significant defeat in the second round, Quenneville was finally sacked.

In September 2008 he was hired as a scout for the Chicago Blackhawks , but only one month later he took over the coaching position from Denis Savard , who won only one of the first four games of the season with the Blackhawks. With Chicago he won the Stanley Cup for the first time as head coach in the 2009/10 season .

In the 2012/13 season he celebrated his second Stanley Cup victory as a coach with the Blackhawks. He repeated this success with the team in 2015 .

He also acted as the assistant coach of Team Canada at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where the team won the gold medal.

After almost ten years as head coach of the Blackhawks, Quenneville was fired in November 2018. The team had already missed the playoffs in the previous year and had another unsatisfactory start to the season. The Canadian was by far the longest-serving coach of the 31 NHL teams at the time.

Immediately after the end of the 2018/19 season, Quenneville was introduced as the new head coach of the Florida Panthers , where he succeeded Bob Boughner, who had just been sacked the day before .

NHL coaching statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

	Seasons	Games	S.	N	U	OTL	Pts
Regular season	22nd	1705	925	558	77	145	2072
Playoffs	19th	219	119	100	-

S = victories; N = defeats; U = tie; OTL = defeat in overtime; Pts = points

Achievements and Awards

As a player

• AHL Second All-Star Team 1992

As a trainer

• Stanley Cup 1996 (As assistant coach for the Colorado Avalanche ) ; 2010, 2013, 2015 (as head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks )
• Presidents' Trophy 2000, 2013
• Jack Adams Award 2000
• Gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 (as assistant coach)

Web links

• Joel Quenneville at hockeydb.com (English)
• Joel Quenneville at legendsofhockey.net (English)