Pat Quinn (ice hockey player)

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 2016
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2016
Pat Quinn (ice hockey player)
Date of birth January 29, 1943
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
date of death 23rd November 2014
Place of death Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 98 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1958-1960 Hamilton Tiger Cubs
1960–1962 Hamilton Kilty B's
1962-1963 Edmonton Oil Kings
1963-1964 Knoxville Knights
1964-1965 Tulsa Oilers
1966-1967 Seattle Totems
Houston Apollos
1967-1970 Tulsa Oilers
1968-1970 Toronto Maple Leafs
1970-1972 Vancouver Canucks
1972-1977 Atlanta Flames

John Brian Patrick "Pat" Quinn (born January 29, 1943 in Hamilton , Ontario , † November 23, 2014 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach and general manager . During his active career as a player, he played a total of 617 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Vancouver Canucks and Atlanta Flames in the National Hockey League from 1968 to 1977 on the position of defender . Quinn then coached the Philadelphia Flyers , Los Angeles Kings , Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers . He also acted as general manager for the latter two. At the international level, Quinn won numerous titles with the Canadian national team , including winning the gold medal at the Winter Olympics . In 2016 he was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Pat Quinn played for the Vancouver Canucks and the Atlanta Flames as a defender in the National Hockey League . In 1977 he ended his playing career and was employed in the same year as assistant coach for the Philadelphia Flyers . The Canadian only held this post for a short time and then attended Widener University . After graduating there he became the head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers and led them in the 1979/80 season , in its first season, to the Stanley Cup finals, in which they were defeated by the New York Islanders . Quinn received the Jack Adams Award for Best Trainer for his performance .

Quinn's next coaching position a few years later were the Los Angeles Kings , with whom he stayed until 1987. In the same year he became general manager of the Vancouver Canucks , where he also took over the coaching post in 1991. The Canucks improved dramatically, winning the title in their division and earning Quinn his second Jack Adams Award. In 1994 he led his team to the Stanley Cup final, but lost to the New York Rangers . After this success, Quinn gave up the office of coach and concentrated on his duties as general manager until 1998. In the same year he moved as head coach to the Toronto Maple Leafs , which he also led from the lower ranks of the league to the playoffs, in this case the conference finals, within one season. Quinn was again an aspirant for the Jack Adams Award, but this time he was denied. As a reward for his good performance, he was also appointed General Manager by the Leafs. Under him, the Leafs reached the playoffs every season in recent years, but the triumph in the Stanley Cup was denied them.

Quinn was selected in 2002 to coach the Canadian national team for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Under his leadership, the Canadians achieved what they had not been able to do since 1952: They won Olympic gold, defeating the USA in the final of the tournament. Two years later, Quinn also led Team Canada to gold at the World Cup, the first for Canada in more than ten years.

Quinn was also entrusted with the Canadian national team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . However, the Canadians were eliminated in the quarter-finals against Russia. Also with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL Quinn had less success in 2006: The team did not reach the playoffs, whereupon Quinn was fired.

In 2006 he was appointed coach of Team Canada for the 80th Spengler Cup . There he was in charge of a team made up of ice hockey players playing in Europe (especially in Switzerland) and players from the North American American Hockey League . With this same team he reached the final, in which he was defeated by the host HC Davos . In September 2008 he was introduced as the new coach of the Canadian U20 national team, with whom he won the world title in Ottawa in 2009. In May 2009 he returned to the National Hockey League as coach of the Edmonton Oilers, but resigned from this position in June 2010.

Pat Quinn died in a Vancouver hospital on November 22, 2014 of complications from longstanding heart disease at the age of 71.

Pat Quinn was honored for his life's work a few months after his death on March 17, 2015 in the Rogers Arena . As part of the game against the Philadelphia Flyers, the previous Abbott Street was renamed Pat Quinn Way . Before the start of the game there was also a ceremony with numerous guests of honor on the ice. Because of the date and Quinn's fondness for this tradition, the celebrations were themed on St. Patrick's Day .

He was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Others

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1958/59 Hamilton Tiger Cubs OHA 20th 0 1 1 34 - - - - -
1959/60 Hamilton Tiger Cubs OHA 27 0 1 1 58 - - - - -
1960/61 Hamilton Kilty B's OHA-B
1961/62 Hamilton Kilty B's OHA-B
1961/62 Hamilton Red Wings OHA 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1962/63 Edmonton Oil Kings CAHL
1963 Edmonton Oil Kings Memorial Cup 19th 2 10 12 49
1963/64 Knoxville Knights EHL 72 6th 31 37 217 - - - - -
1964/65 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 70 3 32 35 202 3 0 0 0 0
1965/66 Memphis wings CPHL 67 2 16 18th 135 - - - - -
1966/67 Seattle totems WHL 35 1 3 4th 49 5 0 0 0 2
1966/67 Houston Apollos CPHL 15th 10 3 13 36 - - - - -
1967/68 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 51 3 15th 18th 178 11 1 4th 5 19th
1968/69 Tulsa Oilers CHL 17th 0 6th 6th 25th - - - - -
1968/69 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 40 2 7th 9 95 4th 0 0 0 13
1969/70 Tulsa Oilers CHL 2 0 1 1 6th - - - - -
1969/70 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 59 0 5 5 88 - - - - -
1970/71 Vancouver Canucks NHL 76 2 11 13 149 - - - - -
1971/72 Vancouver Canucks NHL 57 2 3 5 63 - - - - -
1972/73 Atlanta Flames NHL 78 2 18th 20th 113 - - - - -
1973/74 Atlanta Flames NHL 77 5 27 32 94 4th 0 0 0 6th
1974/75 Atlanta Flames NHL 80 2 19th 21st 156 - - - - -
1975/76 Atlanta Flames NHL 80 2 11 13 134 2 0 1 1 2
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 59 1 12 13 58 1 0 0 0 0
OHA total 48 0 2 2 92 - - - - -
CPHL / CHL total 222 8th 73 81 612 14th 1 4th 5 19th
NHL overall 606 18th 113 131 950 11 0 1 1 21st

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Pat Quinn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Douglas Martin: Pat Quinn, Coach Who Led Canada to Olympic Gold, Is Dead at 71. In: The New York Times, November 24, 2014 (English, accessed November 25, 2014).
  2. ↑ Canucks honoring Quinn on St. Patrick's Day. In: nhl.com. March 17, 2005, accessed May 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Quinn, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quinn, John Brian Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach and general manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2014
Place of death Vancouver , British Columbia