John Harrington

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United StatesUnited States  John Harrington Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 24, 1957
place of birth Virginia , Minnesota , USA
Nickname Bah
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position striker
Career stations
1975-1979 University of Minnesota Duluth
1979 Oklahoma City Stars
1979-1980 USA hockey
1980 Rochester Americans
1980-1981 HC Lugano
1981-1982 USA hockey
1983 Birmingham South Stars
1983-1984 USA hockey
1984 Colorado Flames

John Michael "Bah" Harrington (born May 24, 1957 in Virginia , Minnesota ) is a former American ice hockey player who has worked as a coach since 1984. Since 2015 he has been the head coach of the women's team at Minnesota State University, Mankato .

Career

As a player

John Harrington was an outstanding ice hockey player who played Virginia High School in the state of Minnesota . After a prime season in Virginia, University of Minnesota Duluth assistant coach Mike Sertich urged Harrington to join the university's ice hockey team. He stayed there from 1975 to 1979 and, with Sertich's help, became a leading player on the team.

After his performance in the university team, he was invited to the US national team in 1979, which was coached by Herb Brooks at the time. In 1980 he was nominated for the Winter Olympics. The USA beat the strongly favored team of the USSR 4: 3 in the final round. The game went down in history as the so-called " Miracle on Ice " . Two days later they beat Finland 4-2 in the second game of the final round and thus won the gold medal. In the game against the USSR Harrington played the assist on Mike Eruzione , who scored the winning goal.

For a short time Harrington was active with the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League , but quickly moved to the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League , where he scored seven points in twelve games. In a game against the Hershey Bears , Harrington was attacked by Lou Franceschetti . He passed out for five minutes and had to spend the night in the hospital with a concussion , broken jaw and nose, and four lost teeth. From 1980, Harrington played for a year at HC Lugano in Switzerland before returning to the USA to play again for the US national team. With this he took part in the ice hockey world championship in 1981 , 1982 and 1983 . Between short periods of work in the Central Hockey League , he took part in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo .

As a trainer and further career

In 1984 Harrington ended his playing career and worked at the University of Denver as an assistant coach under Ralph Backstrom , a former player for the Montreal Canadiens . The high point of Harrington's working time in Denver were 1985 and 1986, when the ice hockey team, after winning 34 games , advanced to the ranks of the NCAA Frozen Four, the four participants in the semifinals of a season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In 1990 Harrington returned to Minnesota, where he worked as an assistant coach for St. Cloud State University .

From 1993 to 2008, Harrington was the head coach at Saint John's University in Minnesota. In 15 seasons he set a record and won the title of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference five times .

On 31 March 2008 it was announced that Harrington will resign from his position as coach at Saint John's University, a coaching job at HC Ambri-Piotta of the Swiss National League A to accept. There he was released on December 16, 2008.

On January 19, 2009 Harrington signed a contract as the head coach of the Slovenian national team and on May 11, 2009 he was hired as a coach at HC Asiago . Although he and his team had made it to the top division at the 2010 World Cup , the American was dismissed from the Slovenian federation in December 2010 and replaced by Matjaž Kopitar . About a month later, Harrington was replaced at HC Asiago by John Tucker on the gang. For the 2011/12 season he was hired by the Colorado Avalanche as a scout . Since 2015 he has been the head coach of the women's team at Minnesota State University, Mankato .

Others

Representation in the film

As a member of the 1980 Olympic Team, Harrington was portrayed by Nate Miller in the film Miracle , who also played ice hockey at the University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2000 .

The film Miracle was preceded by a portrayal of Harrington by Bill Schriner in the 1981 TV film Miracle on Ice .

family

Harrington is married with three children. He is the father of Chris Harrington , who was also a professional ice hockey player.

Nickname "Bah"

Harrington is known by the nickname "Bah" to his family, friends and acquaintances from high school. He got this name from his brother, who was only one year old when John's birth. At this age, the brother had trouble pronouncing the word “baby” and said “Bah” instead.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeyclubambripiotta.ch, Rostislav Cada é il nuovo allenatore dell'HCAP ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.hockeyclubambripiotta.ch
  2. ^ Slovenia tabs Harrington. In: iihf.com. January 18, 2009, accessed November 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ asiagohockey.it, John Harrington guiderà l'Asiago ( Memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ asiagohockey.it, John Tucker ad Asiago ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

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personal data
SURNAME Harrington, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrington, John Michael Bah (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia , Minnesota