John Paddock

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CanadaCanada  John Paddock Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 9, 1954
place of birth Oak River , Manitoba , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
WHA Secret
Amateur Draft 		1974 , 2nd round, 28th position
Minnesota Fighting Saints
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 3rd round, 37th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
1972-1974 Brandon Wheat Kings
1974-1976 Richmond Robins
1976-1977 Springfield Indians
1977-1979 Maine Mariners
1979-1980 Philadelphia Flyers
1980-1981 Québec Nordiques
1981-1984 Maine Mariners

Alvin John Paddock (born June 9, 1954 in Oak River , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey striker and current coach and general manager.

Career

As a player

John Paddock began his career in 1972 in the Canadian Junior League WCHL with the Brandon Wheat Kings . In his second season he proved his qualities as a goalscorer and preparer, scoring 83 points in 68 games. He also proved his physical strength when he received 228 penalty minutes. He was then selected by the Washington Capitals in the third round of the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft at position 37.

From the fall of 1974 he played for the Richmond Robins in the AHL , who served as the farm team of the Washington Capitals. He made a good debut in professional ice hockey with 26 goals and 22 assists in his first season and thus recommended himself for his first appearances in the NHL , which he also received at the beginning of the 1975/76 season . But he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in December 1975 and was only used in the AHL for the rest of the season.

In the following three years he played only five times for the Flyers and played the seasons mainly in the AHL with the Springfield Indians and the Maine Mariners , with whom he won the Calder Cup in 1977 and 1978 . 1979/80 he was allowed to play more often in the NHL and moved into the final of the Stanley Cup with the Philadelphia Flyers . While Paddock only played three games in the playoffs , he was suddenly the center of attention in the sixth game of the final series when he scored the equalizer against the New York Islanders that took the game into overtime. There, however, the Islanders scored the winning goal and won the Stanley Cup.

In August 1980 he was transferred to the Québec Nordiques , but even there he was unable to prevail and was only used 32 times in two years. Instead, he continued to play in the AHL with the Maine Mariners and led them as team captain . In the spring of 1982, he and his teammates Dennis Patterson and Wayne Schaab took over as coach of the Mariners until the end of the season, but still played for the team.

In January 1983, the Philadelphia Flyers took him again under contract and he completed another ten games in the NHL. In the summer he then signed with the New Jersey Devils , which did not take him into the NHL squad, so Paddock continued to play with the Maine Mariners.

As a trainer and manager

In November 1983, Paddock finally retired to become the head coach of the Maine Mariners. In his first year as a coach, he led the Mariners to win the Calder Cup. He stayed with the team for another year, but then took over the coaching post with the Hershey Bears . There, too, he had immediate success and reached the final of the AHL playoffs with the Bears. Under Paddock, the Bears were among the dominant teams in the following years and finally won the Calder Cup in 1988.

In May 1989, he resigned the coaching post as he was appointed assistant general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers. But after just a year he left Philadelphia and coached the Binghamton Rangers , the New York Rangers AHL farm team . However, he stayed there for only one year, because in the summer of 1991 he was appointed head coach of the Winnipeg Jets in the NHL. Paddock led the team to the playoffs in 1992 and 1993 , but suffered a setback the following year when only 24 of the 80 games could be won and the finals were missed. At the end of the season, Paddock also took on the position of General Manager of the Jets. When there was again no success in the 1994/95 season , he resigned his coaching position and concentrated on his work as general manager. He remained in that position when the Winnipeg Jets relocated to Phoenix , Arizona in the summer of 1996 and were renamed Phoenix Coyotes . However, he was released in December of the same year.

In September 1997 he joined the New York Rangers organization and was Director of Pro Scouting responsible for spotting potential new signings for the NHL squad. In 1999 he gave up the post and took over as head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack , the Rangers AHL farm team. In the first season he won the Calder Cup with them and had two more playoff appearances follow. In 2002 he moved within the AHL to the Binghamton Senators , the farm team of the Ottawa Senators , which he coached for three years.

When the Ottawa Senators got a new coach with Bryan Murray for the 2005/06 season , Paddock became his assistant. In the 2006/07 season they moved to the Stanley Cup finals, but were subject to the Anaheim Ducks there . Shortly thereafter, Murray was named general manager and Paddock was promoted to head coach for the Senators. Paddock made a good debut when he led the Senators with 16 wins in the first 19 games into the 2007/08 season and to the top of the Eastern Conference , where the Senators stayed until February 2008. In the meantime, Paddock also looked after the Eastern All-Stars as head coach at the NHL All-Star Game in January, but the Senators could no longer build on the good performance from the beginning of the season and lost the top position in the East at the end of February after 14 defeats in 21 games. Paddock was then fired by the Senators.

Half a year later, the Philadelphia Phantoms from the AHL signed him. He worked there until the end of the 2008/09 season before Paddock was hired by the Philadelphia Flyers as assistant general manager in July 2009. In 2013 he became assistant coach under Craig Berube when Peter Laviolette was dismissed as head coach. He retired from this position in August 2014 when Paddock was introduced as the new head coach of the Regina Pats . With the Pats he received the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy as best coach in the Western Hockey League in his first season .

In 2010 the American Hockey League honored him for his services as a player and coach with the induction into the AHL Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com: "Flyers fire Laviolette, replace with Berube" (English, October 7, 2013, accessed on November 27, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Paddock, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paddock, Alvin John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak River , Manitoba