Sheldon Keefe

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CanadaCanada  Sheldon Keefe Ice hockey player
Sheldon Keefe
Date of birth 17th September 1980
place of birth Brampton , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 2nd round, 47th position
Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
1998-1999 Toronto St. Michael's Majors
1999-2000 Barrie Colts
2000-2003 Tampa Bay Lightning
2003-2004 Hershey Bears
2004-2005 Utah grizzlies

Sheldon Keefe (born September 17, 1980 in Brampton , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . He played 125 games for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League and has been the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL since November 2019 .

Career

Player career

In 1995 Keefe played for the Toronto Nationals in the Greater Toronto Hockey League and came through the clubs Quinte Hawks , Bramalea Blues and Caledon Candians to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Ontario Hockey League . In the 1998/99 season he scored a total of 116 scorer points for the St. Michael's Majors and the Barrie Colts and was awarded the Emms Family Award as Rookies of the Year before Jason Spezza and Brad Boyes . In the 1999 NHL Entry Draft , Keefe was drawn in the second round as the 47th player by the Tampa Bay Lightning from the National Hockey League . In the 1999/2000 season , Keefe set a new internal club record for the Barrie Colts with 121 points in 66 games. That season, the Colts won the OHL championship in the form of the J. Ross Robertson Cup by defeating the Plymouth Whalers . After winning, Keefe caused a stir when he refused to shake hands with league commissioner David Branch. In the 2000 Memorial Cup final , the Barrie Colts lost 6-2 to Océanic de Rimouski .

On October 18, 2000 Sheldon Keefe made his NHL debut for the Tampa Bay Lightning, for which he scored four points in 49 games in his first season in the 2000/01 game year . In parallel, Keefe ran in the International Hockey League for the Detroit Vipers . The following season he was also active for the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League . After the 2002/03 NHL season , Keefe left the Tampa Bay Lightning after 125 games and initially moved to the Phoenix Coyotes , for which, however, he did not complete a game. Instead, he went to the Hershey Bears shortly thereafter , for whom he completed 59 games in the American Hockey League in the 2003/04 season . In the 2004/05 season Keefe was used again four times for the Utah Grizzlies .

In September 2005, Keefe ended his career as a player after only five professional seasons as a result of a knee injury.

Coaching career

CanadaCanada  Sheldon Keefe
Sheldon Keefe
Coaching stations
2006–2012 Pembroke Lumber Kings
2012-2015 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
2015-2019 Toronto Marlies
since 2019 Toronto Maple Leafs

Pembroke Lumber Kings

In July 2003, Sheldon Keefe acquired the Pembroke Lumber Kings Junior A franchise and became Kevin Abrams' assistant coach. In the 2005/06 season, the Lumber Kings took first place in the Central Junior Hockey League after regular time, but were beaten in the second round of the play-offs by the Nepean Raiders .

After Kevin Abrams was promoted to league commissioner, Sheldon Keefe became the head coach and general manager of the Lumber Kings on June 6, 2006 . In his first season as head coach Keefe reached first place with 95 points in the Yzerman Division , in the play-off games they worked their way through to the final, where the Lumber Kings won 4-1 against the Smiths If Bears secured the first league championship in 18 years. At the following Fred Page Cup , the Lumber Kings trained by Keefe prevailed against the St-Jérôme Panthers and thus became Eastern Canadian champions, at the Royal Bank Cup for the national championship, the Lumber Kings were eliminated in the semi-finals against the Aurora Tigers .

In the following three years Keefe developed the Lumber Kings continuously, so that another three championships in the Central Junior Hockey League followed. In the 2010/11 CCHL season, the Pembroke Lumber Kings won their fifth championship in a row, with a contested 4-2 win in the play-off final against the Cornwall Colts , making the Lumber Kings the first ice hockey team in the history of the CCHL who managed to defend their title five times. In the Fred Page Cup, Keefes team won against Longueuil Collège Français and thus moved into the Royal Bank Cup for the second time. There the Lumber Kings fought their way through to the finals and defeated the Vernon Vipers 2-0 there, with which the team secured the Canadian Central Junior Hockey League championship for the first time in the club's history.

During the 2011/12 season, Sheldon Keefe announced that he would be coaching Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds to switch. On May 29, 2013, Keefe announced on Twitter that they had sold the Lumber Kings to former ice hockey player Dale McTavish . On October 4, 2013, Keefe was honored with a banner at the Pembroke Memorial Center, the home of the Pembroke Lumber Kings.

Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds

On December 3, 2012, Sheldon Keefe became the head coach of Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the Ontario Hockey League . The team qualified with a sixth place in the Wester Conference for the play-offs, but there they failed in the first game against Owen Sound Attack . In his first full season, the 2013/14 season , Keefes team could easily qualify for the play-offs, in the second round, however, the Greyhounds were eliminated against the Erie Otters .

In the 2014/15 season , the greyhounds finished the regular season with 110 points and thus won the Hamilton Spectator Trophy as the team with the highest points in the OHL. Keefe was awarded the Matt Leyden Trophy for the Ontario Hockey League's best coach and the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award for the Canadian Hockey League's best coach after the season . In the play-offs, the greyhounds moved into the conference finals, where they were again eliminated by the Erie Otters.

Toronto Marlies and Maple Leafs

On June 8, 2015, Sheldon Keefe coached the Toronto Marlies , a farm team of the Toronto Maple Leafs from the American Hockey League , the second highest North American ice hockey league . In the 2017/18 season , the Marlies won the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as the team with the highest points in the AHL. Then the Toronto Marlies advanced to the playoff finals, where Keefes team won the Calder Cup after a contested 4-3 win against the Texas Stars .

After more than three years behind the Marlies gang, Keefe was promoted within the organization to head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in November 2019 , succeeding the dismissed Mike Babcock . At this point he became the second youngest of all 31 NHL head coaches after Jeremy Colliton .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHL 38 37 37 74 80 - - - - -
1998/99 Barrie Colts OHL 28 14th 28 42 60 10 5 5 10 31
1999/00 Barrie Colts OHL 66 48 73 121 95 25th 10 13 23 41
2000 Barrie Colts Memorial Cup 5 2 3 5 4th
2000/01 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 49 4th 0 4th 38 - - - - -
2000/01 Detroit Vipers IHL 13 7th 5 12 23 - - - - -
2001/02 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 39 6th 7th 13 16 - - - - -
2001/02 Springfield Falcons AHL 24 9 9 18th 26th - - - - -
2002/03 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 37 2 5 7th 24 - - - - -
2002/03 Springfield Falcons AHL 33 16 15th 31 28 6th 0 0 0 4th
2003/04 Hershey Bears AHL 59 16 16 32 82 - - - - -
2004/05 Utah grizzlies AHL 4th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
OHL total 132 99 138 237 235 35 15th 18th 33 72
AHL total 120 41 41 82 136 6th 0 0 0 4th
NHL overall 125 12 12 24 78 - - - - -

( 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 )

family

His younger brother Adam Keefe is also an ice hockey coach .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keefe is Rookie of the Year. Canadian Hockey League, April 29, 1999, archived from the original on September 26, 2005 ; accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Damien Cox: Sheldon Keefe builds second career out of second chance. The Star , March 27, 2015, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tina Peplinski: Abrams leaves Lumber Kings, Sheldon Keefe will coach team. Pembroke Daily Observer June 7, 2006.
  4. ^ Pembroke Lumber Kings sold to Dale McTavish. Pembroke Daily Observer, May 29, 2013, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  5. ^ Pembroke Memorial Center. In: roamingtherinks.com. October 4, 2013, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Mike Verdone: Keefe hopes to push the right buttons. Sault Star, December 4, 2012, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Keefe, DeAngelo names 2014-15 CHL Award winners. In: soogreyhounds.com. May 30, 2015, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Alec Brownscombe: Sheldon Keefe names head coach of the Toronto Marlies. In: mapleleafshotstove.com. June 8, 2015, accessed November 24, 2018 .
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personal data
SURNAME Keefe, Sheldon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Brampton , Ontario