Mike Keenan

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Mike Keenan
Date of birth October 21, 1949
place of birth Bowmanville , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1969-1972 St. Lawrence University
1972-1973 University of Toronto
1973-1974 Roanoke Valley Rebels
1974-1975 Whitby McDonalds
1975-1977 Whitby Warriors

Michael Edward "Mike" Keenan (born October 21, 1949 in Bowmanville , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach , who was the head coach of Kunlun Red Star from the Continental Hockey League until December 2017 .

Career

As a player

He played for the teams at St. Lawrence University and the University of Toronto before serving as a senior at the OHA for Whitby for a few years .

As a trainer

After he failed to reach the highest level as a player, he decided early on to pursue a career as a coach. At the age of 30 he took over the coaching position of the Peterborough Petes , a very successful junior team, before leading the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League in 1983 to win the Calder Cup . He then returned to the University of Toronto for a year and led the team to the title.

Equipped with these successes, he was offered his first coaching position in the National Hockey League . He immediately led the Philadelphia Flyers team into the final series of the Stanley Cup . Two years later he succeeded again, but like 1985 his Flyers failed in 1987 at the Edmonton Oilers around Wayne Gretzky . He was also behind the gang for the Canadian national team at the 1987 Canada Cup .

From the 1988/89 season he coached the Chicago Blackhawks . After two semi-finals in the first two seasons, this time it was the Pittsburgh Penguins who stopped his team in the final. In Chicago he had also worked as general manager for the first time. After the Canada Cup in 1991 , Keenan coached the national team for the third time at the 1993 Ice Hockey World Championship . For the 1993/94 season he took over the New York Rangers . He led the team around captain Mark Messier to win the Stanley Cup. As with his first two stations, he also left his third team after reaching the finals.

Without participating in the finals, he stayed with his next team. After two and a half years, however, his engagement with the St. Louis Blues ended . At the Blues, where he was also general manager, he also prevented the use of the alternate jersey, which he did not like.

All subsequent attempts by Keenan to get his team into the playoffs also failed. The Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins were his teams between 1997 and 2001. From the 2001/02 season he coached the Florida Panthers . From 2004 he again took on the position of general manager in addition to the coaching position, before he resigned in autumn 2006 before the start of the season.

Keenan, who took over as coach of the Calgary Flames for the 2007/08 season , can look back on numerous successes. Even so, in almost all of his stations he also had difficulties with players, managers and owners.

In May 2013, Keenan was signed by HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk from the Continental Hockey League for two years. In October 2015, Keenan was temporarily relieved of his post and demoted to sports advisor.

In March 2017, Keenan was introduced as Kunlun Red Star's new head coach . Later he also took on managerial duties, but was released from them in November of the same year and a few weeks later also on leave as head coach.

Sporting successes

Personal awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Iron Mike" Keenan to coach Russia's Metallurg. Reuters , March 13, 2013, accessed June 25, 2013 .
  2. ^ Coach castling in the KHL. In: hockeyfans.ch. October 17, 2015, accessed October 23, 2015 .
  3. Mike Keenan hired by Chinese KHL team Kunlan Red Star . In: Sportsnet.ca . March 16, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  4. Keenan hires in China. In: spox.com. March 17, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .
  5. Mike Keenan fired by KHL's Kunlun Red Star. In: cbc.ca. December 4, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017 .