Pat Burns
Pat Burns (born April 4, 1952 in Montreal , † November 19, 2010 in Sherbrooke , Québec ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach. He was, among other things, chief coach of the NHL teams Montreal Canadiens (1988-1992), Toronto Maple Leafs (1992-1996), Boston Bruins (1997-2001) and the New Jersey Devils (2001-2004). In 2014 he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .
Career
Burns is one of those coaches who can't look back on a great time as a player. As a junior he played in the OHA with the London Knights without attracting any particular attention.
In 1984, now 32 years old, he took over the Olympiques de Gatineau in the QMJHL as a coach, where Luc Robitaille played among others . After three years, in 1987, the Canadiens de Montréal took him on as a coach for their AHL farm team, the Canadiens de Sherbrooke .
After a year there, he was brought to the NHL in Montreal as the successor to Jean Perron . He stayed there for four years before moving to the big competitor, the Toronto Maple Leafs . Here he managed to wake the sleeping giant and the Leafs had their best time after the Original Six .
After four years in Toronto, another Original Six Team became his third coaching station. From 1997 to 2000 he coached the Boston Bruins . With each of the three teams he was honored once with the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. However, only with his fourth team, the New Jersey Devils , which he supervised in the 2002/03 and 2003/04 seasons , he was able to win the Stanley Cup for the first time . Burns ended his coaching career after the 2003/04 season after contracting cancer for the second time.
During his time as head coach, he coached the gang 1019 times in 14 seasons. Of those games, he won 501 and lost 350.
He died of cancer at the age of 58.
Awards
- 1989, 1993 and 1998: Jack Adams Award
- 2014: Induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pat Burns died in: hockeyweb.de on November 20, 2010
Web links
- Pat Burns at hockeydb.com (English)
Head coach: Art Ross (1924–1928) | Cy Denneny (1928-1929) | Art Ross (1929–1934) | Frank Patrick (1934–1936) | Art Ross (1936–1939) | Cooney Weiland (1939–1941) | Art Ross (1941–1945) | Dit Clapper (1945–1949) | Buck Boucher (1949–1950) | Lynn Patrick (1950–1955) | Milt Schmidt (1955–1961) | Phil Watson (1961–1962) | Milt Schmidt (1962–1966) | Harry Sinden (1966–1970) | Tom Johnson (1970-1973) | Bep Guidolin (1973–1974) | Don Cherry (1974-1979) | Fred Creighton (1979-1980) | Harry Sinden (1980) | Gerry Cheevers (1980–1985) | Harry Sinden (1985) | Butch Goring (1985-1986) | Terry O'Reilly (1986-1989) | Mike Milbury (1989-1991) | Rick Bowness (1991-1992) | Brian Sutter (1992-1995) | Steve Kasper (1995-1997) | Pat Burns (1997-2000) | Mike Keenan (2000-2001) | Robbie Ftorek (2001-2003) | Mike O'Connell (2003) | Mike Sullivan (2003-2006) | Dave Lewis (2006-2007) | Claude Julien (2007-2017) | Bruce Cassidy (since 2017)
General Manager: Art Ross (1924–1954) | Lynn Patrick (1954-1965) | Hap Emms (1965–1967) | Milt Schmidt (1967–1972) | Harry Sinden (1972-2000) | Mike O'Connell (2000-2006) | Peter Chiarelli (2006–2015) | Don Sweeney (since 2015)
Head coach: Jack Laviolette (1909–1910) | Adolphe Lecours (1910-1911) | Napoléon Dorval (1911-1913) | Jimmy Gardner (1913-1915) | Newsy Lalonde (1915-1922) | Léo Dandurand (1922–1926) | Cecil Hart (1926-1932) | Newsy Lalonde (1932-1934) | Léo Dandurand (1934–1935) | Sylvio Mantha (1935-1936) | Cecil Hart (1936–1939) | Jules Dugal (1939) | Babe Siebert (1939–1940) | Pit Lépine (1939-1940) | Dick Irvin (1940–1955) | Toe Blake (1955-1968) | Claude Ruel (1968-1970) | Al MacNeil (1970-1971) | Scotty Bowman (1971-1979) | Bernie Geoffrion (1979) | Claude Ruel (1979-1981) | Bob Berry (1981-1984) | Jacques Lemaire (1984–1985) | Jean Perron (1985–1988) | Pat Burns (1988-1992) | Jacques Demers (1992-1995) | Jacques Laperrière (1995) | Mario Tremblay (1995–1997) | Alain Vigneault (1997-2000) | Michel Therrien (2000-2003) | Claude Julien (2003-2006) | Bob Gainey (2006) | Guy Carbonneau (2006-2009) | Bob Gainey (2009) | Jacques Martin (2009-2011) | Randy Cunneyworth (2011-2012) | Michel Therrien (2012–2017) | Claude Julien (since 2017)
General Manager: Jack Laviolette & Joseph Cattarinich (1909–1910) | George Kennedy (1910-1921) | Léo Dandurand (1921–1935) | Ernest Savard (1935-1936) | Cecil Hart (1936–1939) | Jules Dugal (1939-1940) | Tommy Gorman (1940-1946) | Frank J. Selke (1946–1964) | Sam Pollock (1964–1978) | Irving Grundman (1978-1983) | Serge Savard (1983-1995) | Réjean Houle (1995-2000) | André Savard (2000-2003) | Bob Gainey (2003-2010) | Pierre Gauthier (2010–2012) | Marc Bergevin (since 2012)
Head Coach: Bill MacMillan (1982-1983) | Tom McVie (1983-1984) | Doug Carpenter (1984-1988) | Jim Schoenfeld (1988-1989) | John Cunniff (1989-1991) | Tom McVie (1991-1992) | Herb Brooks (1992-1993) | Jacques Lemaire (1993-1998) | Robbie Ftorek (1998-2000) | Larry Robinson (2000-2002) | Kevin Constantine (2002) | Pat Burns (2002-2005) | Larry Robinson (2005) | Lou Lamoriello (2005-2006) | Claude Julien (2006-2007) | Lou Lamoriello (2007) | Brent Sutter (2007-2009) | Jacques Lemaire (2009-2010) | John MacLean (2010) | Jacques Lemaire (2010-2011) | Peter DeBoer (2011–2014) | Adam Oates & Scott Stevens (2014-2015) | John Hynes (2015-2019) | Alain Nasreddine (2019-2020) | Lindy Ruff (since 2020)
General Manager: Bill MacMillan (1982–1983) | Max McNab (1983-1987) | Lou Lamoriello (1987-2015) | Ray Shero (2015-2020) | Tom Fitzgerald (since 2020)
Head Coach:
Toronto Arenas:
Dick Carroll (1917–1919)
Toronto St. Patricks:
Frank Heffernan (1919–1920) |
Frank Carroll (1920-1921) |
George O'Donoghue (1921-1922) |
Charles Querrie (1922–1923) |
Eddie Powers (1923-1926) |
Charles Querrie (1926–1927) |
Mike Rodden (1927)
Toronto Maple Leafs:
Alex Romeril (1927) |
Conn Smythe (1927-1930) |
Art Duncan (1930-1931) |
Dick Irvin (1931-1940) |
Hap Day (1940–1950) |
Joe Primeau (1950-1953) |
King Clancy (1953-1956) |
Howie Meeker (1956-1957) |
Billy Reay (1957-1959) |
Punch Imlach (1960–1969) |
John McLellan (1969-1973) |
Red Kelly (1973-1977) |
Roger Neilson (1977-1979) |
Floyd Smith (1979-1980) |
Dick Duff (1980) |
Punch Imlach (1980) |
Joe Crozier (1980-1981) |
Mike Nykoluk (1980-1984) |
Dan Maloney (1984-1986) |
John Brophy (1986-1988) |
Chief Armstrong (1988-1989) |
Doug Carpenter (1989-1990) |
Tom Watt (1990-1992) |
Pat Burns (1992-1996) |
Nick Beverley (1996) |
Mike Murphy (1996-1998) |
Pat Quinn (1998-2006) |
Paul Maurice (2006-2008) |
Ron Wilson (2008-2012) |
Randy Carlyle (2012-2015) |
Peter Horachek (2015) |
Mike Babcock (2015-2019) |
Sheldon Keefe (since 2019)
General Manager: Charles Querrie (1917–1927) | Conn Smythe (1927-1957) | Hap Day (1957-1958) | Punch Imlach (1958–1969) | Jim Gregory (1969-1979) | Punch Imlach (1979–1981) | Gerry McNamara (1981-1988) | Gord Stellick (1988-1989) | Floyd Smith (1989-1991) | Cliff Fletcher (1991-1997) | Ken Dryden (1997-1999) | Pat Quinn (1999-2003) | John Ferguson (2003-2008) | Cliff Fletcher (2008) | Brian Burke (2008-2013) | Dave Nonis (2013-2015) | Lou Lamoriello (2015-2018) | Kyle Dubas (since 2018)
1974 Shero | 1975 Pulford | 1976 Cherry | 1977 Bowman | 1978 Kromm | 1979 Arbor | 1980 Quinn | 1981 Berenson | 1982 watt | 1983 Tessier | 1984 Murray | 1985 Keenan | 1986 Sather | 1987 Demers | 1988 Demers | 1989 Burns | 1990 Murdoch | 1991 Sutter | 1992 Quinn | 1993 Burns | 1994 Lemaire | 1995 Crawford | 1996 Bowman | 1997 Nolan | 1998 Burns | 1999 Martin | 2000 Quenneville | 2001 Barber | 2002 Francis | 2003 Lemaire | 2004 Tortorella | 2005 - | 2006 Ruff | 2007 Vigneault | 2008 Boudreau | 2009 Julien | 2010 Tippett | 2011 Bylsma | 2012 Hitchcock | 2013 MacLean | 2014 Roy | 2015 Hartley | 2016 Despite | 2017 Tortorella | 2018 Gallant | 2019 despite
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burns, Pat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2010 |
| Place of death | Sherbrooke , Quebec, Canada |