Peter DeBoer

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CanadaCanada  Peter DeBoer Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 13, 1968
place of birth Dunnville , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1988 , 12th round, 237th position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1985-1989 Windsor Compuware Spitfires
1989-1991 Milwaukee Admirals

Peter DeBoer (born June 13, 1968 in Dunnville , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey striker and current coach . Since January 2020 he has been the head coach of the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League , after having already looked after the San Jose Sharks , Florida Panthers and the New Jersey Devils in the same role .

Career as a player

Peter DeBoer began his career in 1985 with the Windsor Compuware Spitfires from the Canadian Junior League OHL . After his rookie season with three goals and six assists, he rose to a total of 30 scorer points in his second year and was the team's third-best scorer in the playoffs with four goals and nine assists.

The greatest success of his career he was able to celebrate with Windsor in the 1987/88 season when they won the final of the OHL playoffs and thus for the first time the J. Ross Robertson Cup . By winning the championship, the Spitfires were allowed to take part in the Memorial Cup finals, but were defeated by the Medicine Hat Tigers in the finals.

DeBoer was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the twelfth round at position 237, but stayed with the juniors for another year. There he played his personal best season with 45 goals and 46 assists in 65 league games, leading his team, but the success of the previous year could not be repeated.

After the Spitfires left the playoffs early, DeBoer made his professional debut with the Milwaukee Admirals from the second-rate IHL in the spring of 1989 . The following two seasons he also played with the Admirals and showed a total of 48 goals and 53 assists in 149 games, although solid performances, but ended his active career in the summer of 1991.

Career as a coach

CanadaCanada  Peter DeBoer
Coaching stations
1993-1995 Detroit Junior Red Wings
(Assistant Coach)
1995-1997 Detroit Whalers
1997-2001 Plymouth Whalers
2001-2008 Kitchener Rangers
2008-2011 Florida panthers
2011-2014 New Jersey Devils
2015-2019 San Jose Sharks
since 2020 Vegas Golden Knights

In 1994 DeBoer returned to ice hockey when he became assistant coach to Paul Maurice at the Detroit Junior Red Wings from the OHL junior league. The team won the J. Ross Robertson Cup that season as champions of the league and made it to the finals in the Memorial Cup finals. Head coach Maurice was promoted after the success of team owner Peter Karmanos and brought to his NHL team to the Hartford Whalers .

Peter DeBoer then succeeded Maurice as head coach and general manager of the junior team that was called Detroit Whalers from the 1995/96 season . After a good first season with reaching the semi-finals of the playoffs, the team weakened the following year, could only win 26 of the 66 league games and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

Since a new arena had been built for the team in Plymouth Township , a suburb of Detroit, the team moved there and renamed themselves Plymouth Whalers in the summer of 1997 . DeBoer then helped the team back to their old strength and the Whalers reached the semi-finals of the finals again. The 1998/99 season ended the team with 51 wins from 68 games as the best team in the OHL, but surprisingly failed in the playoffs in the second round at the London Knights . Even so, DeBoer received the Matt Leyden Trophy as the best coach in the league.

The following season, the Whalers finished in first place in the OHL and then moved to the playoff finals, where they failed, however, at the Barrie Colts . DeBoer received the Matt Leyden Trophy again and also the CHL Coach of the Year Award . Also in the 2000/01 season, the Whalers reached the final, but failed again.

Peter DeBoer then left the team in the summer of 2001 and took over the coaching and general manager position at league competitor Kitchener Rangers . The Rangers had always had a negative win record in the previous four seasons, but DeBoer was able to end this negative series immediately. In the 2002/03 season the team continued their way to the top, played the second best season of their 40th anniversary with 46 wins and took first place in the OHL in the regular season. With only one defeat, the Rangers moved into the playoffs to the conference finals, where they met the Plymouth Whalers of all places, but they were able to beat them in a contested seven-game series. In the final, they finally defeated the Ottawa 67’s . She was also able to continue her dominance in the Memorial Cup final round and completed the tournament undefeated and successfully.

This was followed by two rather average seasons before the Rangers were back at the top of the league in the 2005/06 season, but failed in the playoffs in the first round. 2006/07 they were eliminated in the second round against the Plymouth Whalers, but were able to find back on the road to success in 2007/08. With 53 wins, the Rangers achieved the best result of the season in their history and moved into the OHL final with only one defeat in the first three rounds, where they only led 3-0 in a competitive series, but the Belleville Bulls were able to equalize. Only in the seventh game could the Rangers secure the championship win. In the following Memorial Cup tournament they also reached the final, but were subject to the representative of the WHL , the Spokane Chiefs .

Due to the success in the junior division, the Florida Panthers signed him from the NHL on his 40th birthday as the new head coach. After a solid first season with 93 points, in which the Panthers narrowly missed qualification for the playoffs, two weaker seasons followed, in which the team was not sporty enough to reach the playoffs and ended these seasons in last place in the Southeast Division . On April 10, 2011 DeBoer was removed from office with the Panthers. On July 19, 2011, DeBoer was introduced as the head coach of the New Jersey Devils . He led the team in the following playoffs in 2012 , his first as NHL coach, promptly into the final of the Stanley Cup , but lost 4-2 to the Los Angeles Kings there .

After three years DeBoer was dismissed in December 2014. Adam Oates and Scott Stevens were succeeded by two equal head coaches. DeBoer finally found a new job in May 2015 when he was introduced to the San Jose Sharks as the new head coach. He led the Sharks into his second Stanley Cup final in the 2016 playoffs , but went off the ice again as a loser after another 2: 4 against the Pittsburgh Penguins . He was finally released in December 2019 after a poor start to the 2019/20 season after more than four years in San Jose and replaced on an interim basis by his assistant Bob Boughner .

Just a short time later, in January 2020, he joined division competitor, the Vegas Golden Knights , the successor to Gerard Gallant , from whom the team had surprisingly split up.

International

In addition to his work as a trainer in the OHL, Peter DeBoer was also active for the Canadian U20 national team . In 1998 he first stood behind the gang as an assistant coach when Canada finished a disappointing sixth place in the U20 World Cup . Seven years later he assisted head coach Brent Sutter in winning the U20 World Cup and again worked with Sutter in the 2007 Super Series .

In September 2016, he was the assistant coach of Team North America at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , a selection of U23 players from Canada and the USA.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As trainer and general manager

  • 2003 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Kitchener Rangers
  • 2003 OHL Third All-Star Team
  • 2003 Memorial Cup win with the Kitchener Rangers
  • 2005 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship (as assistant coach)
  • 2008 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Kitchener Rangers
  • 2008 OHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1985/86 Windsor Compuware Spitfires OHL 55 3 6th 9 20th 11 1 0 1 0
1986/87 Windsor Compuware Spitfires OHL 52 13 17th 30th 37 14th 4th 9 13 16
1987/88 Windsor Compuware Spitfires OHL 54 23 18th 41 41 12 4th 4th 8th 14th
1988/89 Windsor Compuware Spitfires OHL 65 45 46 91 40 4th 2 3 5 0
1988/89 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 2
1989/90 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 67 21st 19th 40 16 6th 0 3 3 4th
1990/91 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 82 27 34 61 34 6th 1 3 4th 0
OHL total 226 84 87 171 138 41 11 16 27 30th
IHL total 151 48 54 102 50 13 1 8th 9 6th

( 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 )

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Squad of Vegas Golden Knights in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME DeBoer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunnville , Ontario , Canada