Mark French (ice hockey coach)

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CanadaCanada  Mark French Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 26, 1971
place of birth Milton , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 86 kg
position striker
Career stations
1988-1989 Milton Merchants
1989-1990 Georgetown Raiders
Smiths Falls Bears
1991-1992 Mankato State University
1992-1996 Brock University

Mark French (born May 26, 1971 in Milton , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach . He was last head coach of Friborg-Gottéron in the National League until October 2019 .

career

French played at Brock University, Canada, between 1992 and 1996, and was, among other things, captain of the ice hockey team, having previously spent a year at Minnesota State University, Mankato . In 1996 he joined the supervisory staff at Brock University as an assistant coach. For the 1997/98 season he moved up to the office of Brock head coach. In the 1998/99 season he was an assistant coach at the University of Guelph and in 1999 moved to the Ontario Hockey League , where he worked as an assistant coach for the North Bay Centennials and also took on managerial duties. He stayed with the team on the banks of Lake Nipissing until 2002 .

French then returned to university sports and was head coach of the ice hockey team at Wilfrid Laurier University between 2002 and 2004 . After one playing year (2004/05) as assistant coach of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies from the ECHL , he again took a position as the main coach and trained the Wichita Thunder in the CHL from the 2005/06 season . During the 2007/08 season there was a separation. In the same game year, French joined the staff of the Hershey Bears ( AHL ) as an assistant coach , and in the run-up to the 2009/10 season he was promoted to head coach of the team. After French had already contributed to winning the championship title as a coaching assistant, he led the Bears in 2010 - this time as head coach - for another title.

In 2013 he left the Hershey Bears and took on his first coaching position outside of North America: In the 2013/14 season he coached the Croatian club KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the Continental Hockey League . For the 2014/15 season he was hired by the Calgary Hitmen from the WHL as head coach and remained in office until 2017. At the end of May 2017, the Swiss first division club Friborg-Gottéron French announced that they would be head coach. In the 2018/19 season he led the team to fifth place in the main round, and the season ended in the play-off quarter-finals. In October 2019, he was released after a series of defeats (only one win from six league matches).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hitmen sign head coach Mark French to contract extension - Calgary Hitmen. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  2. ^ Bob Marshall joins Battalion coaching staff - North Bay Battalion. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Steve Martell appointed Laurier men's hockey coach - Ontario University Athletics (OUA). Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  4. ^ Thunder quickly learning french - OurSports Central. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Departing Hershey Bears head coach Mark French leaves historic legacy . In: PennLive.com . ( pennlive.com [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Bears enter premiere KHL season with Mark French as headcoach! Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  7. ^ Mark French revealed as Calgary Hitmen's new head coach . In: Yahoo Sports . ( yahoo.com [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  8. ^ Calgary Hitmen searching for new coach after Mark French hired in Switzerland . In: Calgary Herald . May 28, 2017 ( calgaryherald.com [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  9. ^ Mark French est le nouvel entraîneur en chef de Friborg-Gotteron. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; Retrieved November 29, 2017 (French). 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.gotteron.ch
  10. ↑ National League: Freiburg dismisses the coach Mark French | NZZ . October 5, 2019, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 9, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Mark French exempted from Gottéron. In: vaterland.li. October 5, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME French, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Milton , Ontario