Scott Arniel

Scott Arniel
Arniel as coach of the Chicago Wolves (2012)
Date of birth	17th September 1962
place of birth	Kingston , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1981 , 2nd lap, 22nd position Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
1979-1982	Cornwall Royals
1981-1986	Winnipeg Jets
1986-1990	Buffalo Sabers
1990-1991	Winnipeg Jets
1991-1992	Boston Bruins Maine Mariners New Haven Nighthawks
1992-1994	San Diego Gulls
1994-1996	Houston Eros
1996	Utah grizzlies
1996-1999	Manitoba mosses

Scott William Arniel (born September 17, 1962 in Kingston , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his professional career, which lasted from 1981 to 1999, the left winger completed among others 764 games for the Winnipeg Jets , Buffalo Sabers and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League . He has been the assistant coach of the Washington Capitals since October 2018 , after having been head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets in the NHL from 2010 to 2012 .

Career

As a player

Scott Arniel was born in Kingston and played in his youth for the Cornwall Royals in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), where he won the Memorial Cup with the team in the first two seasons . Then chose him Winnipeg Jets in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft at 22 position, where he finally with the start of the 1981-82 season in the National Hockey League debut (NHL). A little later, however, the jets sent the attacker back to the Cornwall Royals, who now competed in the Ontario Hockey League . As a result, Arniel took part again in the Junior World Championship and won the gold medal there in 1982 with the Canadian U20 selection , after he had finished seventh with the team the year before .

At the beginning of the 1982/83 season, the winger established himself in the NHL squad of the Jets and achieved his best personal statistics in his second full season by recording 56 points in 80 games . After a total of five years in Winnipeg, Arniel was given to the Buffalo Sabers in June 1986 in exchange for Gilles Hamel . After four years, however, he returned to Winnipeg when Buffalo gave him, Phil Housley and Jeff Parker to the Jets and Dale Hawerchuk received in return ; In addition, the teams exchanged their first-round voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 . The 1990/91 season thus spent Arniel back in Winnipeg before he was transferred to the Boston Bruins in November 1991 without further consideration . As a result, he played partly with the Bruins and with the Maine Mariners and the New Haven Nighthawks in the American Hockey League (AHL). This 1991/92 season marked the end of Arniel's NHL career, in which he had completed a total of 764 games and scored 344 points scorer.

As a result, Arniel moved to the International Hockey League (IHL), which came in the following seven seasons on another 585 missions, for the San Diego Gulls , the Houston Eros , the Utah Grizzlies and the Manitoba Moose . With the Grizzlies, the Canadian won the playoffs for the Turner Cup in 1996 . After the 1998/99 season he ended his active career.

As a trainer

After Arniel had already been entrusted with coaching duties as a player in the Houston Eros in the 1995/96 season, he returned to the Manitoba Moose as an assistant coach a year after his career ended. The Canadian was on the coaching staff for two years before returning to another ex-employer and the NHL by being hired as an assistant coach by the Buffalo Sabers. After three years in Buffalo, Arniel returned to Manitoba and took over the Moose as head coach at the beginning of the 2006/07 season. In this role, he received the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award for best coach in the American Hockey League in 2009 , before taking on his first position as NHL head coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2010 . He also represented his home country as an assistant coach for the Canadian national team at the 2011 World Cup .

After a year and a half, Arniel was fired in Columbus and replaced by Todd Richards . He then returned for a season in the AHL, in which he coached the Chicago Wolves , before he was introduced as the new assistant coach of the New York Rangers in August 2013 . He worked there until the end of the 2017/18 season, when he and head coach Alain Vigneault were fired. A little later he was hired in the same capacity by the Washington Capitals .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

• 1980 Memorial Cup win with the Cornwall Royals
• 1981 Memorial Cup win with the Cornwall Royals
• 1982 gold medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1996 Turner Cup win with the Utah Grizzlies

As a trainer

• 2009 Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award

Career statistics

Player statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
1979/80	Cornwall Royals	LHJMQ		61	22nd	28	50		49		18th	6th	6th	12		24
1980	Cornwall Royals	Memorial Cup									5	0	2	2		2
1980/81	Cornwall Royals	LHJMQ		68	52	71	123		102		19th	14th	19th	33		24
1981	Cornwall Royals	Memorial Cup									5	6th	2	8th		4th
1981/82	Cornwall Royals	OHL		24	18th	26th	44		43		-	-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		17th	1	8th	9	+2	14th		3	0	0	0	-1	0
1982/83	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		75	13	5	18th	-16	46		2	0	0	0	-1	0
1983/84	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		80	21st	35	56	-10	68		2	0	0	0	-1	0
1984/85	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		79	22nd	22nd	44	+7	81		8th	1	2	3	-2	9
1985/86	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		80	18th	25th	43	-8th	40		3	0	0	0	-2	12
1986/87	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		63	11	14th	25th	-1	59		-	-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		73	17th	23	40	+8	61		6th	0	1	1	–6	5
1988/89	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		80	18th	23	41	+10	46		5	1	0	1	-2	4th
1989/90	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		79	18th	14th	32	+4	77		5	1	0	1	–7	4th
1990/91	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		75	5	17th	22nd	-12	87		-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		11	3	3	6th	-3	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Maine Mariners	AHL		14th	4th	4th	8th	-12	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Boston Bruins	NHL		29	5	3	8th	+5	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	San Diego Gulls	IHL		79	35	48	83	+25	116		14th	6th	5	11	+1	16
1993/94	San Diego Gulls	IHL		79	34	43	77	-10	121		7th	6th	3	9	+5	24
1994/95	Houston Eros	IHL		72	37	40	77	–9	102		4th	1	0	1	-2	10
1995/96	Houston Eros	IHL		64	18th	28	46	-15	94		-	-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Utah grizzlies	IHL		14th	3	3	6th	-4	29		22nd	10	7th	17th	+1	28
1996/97	Manitoba mosses	IHL		73	23	27	50	-18	67		-	-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Manitoba mosses	IHL		79	28	42	70	+9	84		3	1	0	1	± 0	10
1998/99	Manitoba mosses	IHL		70	16	35	51	–7	82		5	1	2	3	± 0	0
LHJMQ total				129	74	99	173		151		37	20th	25th	45		48
Memorial Cup overall											10	6th	4th	10		6th
AHL total				25th	7th	7th	14th	-15	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
IHL total				530	194	266	460	-29	695		55	25th	17th	42	+5	88
NHL overall				730	149	189	338	–11	599		34	3	3	6th	-22	39

International

Represented Canada to:

• Junior World Championship 1981
• Junior World Championship 1982

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981	Canada	June World Cup	7th place		5	3	1	4th	4th
1982	Canada	June World Cup			7th	5	6th	11	4th
Juniors overall					12	8th	7th	15th	8th

NHL coaching statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	OTL	Pt	space		Sp	S.	N	result
2010/11	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		82	34	35	13	81	5. ( Central )		-	-	-	not qualified
2011/12	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		41	11	25th	5	27	-		-	-	-	dismiss
NHL overall				123	45	60	18th	108	0 division title		-	-	-	0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Personal

Arniel is married and has two children. His nephew, Jamie Arniel, is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

• Scott Arniel in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Scott Arniel at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Scott Arniel at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jeff Z. Klein: New Rangers Coach Chooses Assistants. nytimes.com, August 14, 2013, accessed August 19, 2017 .