Tim Hunter (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Tim Hunter Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 10, 1960
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Defender / Right Wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1979 , 3rd round, 54th position
Atlanta Flames
Career stations
1977-1988 Kamloops Chiefs
1978-1980 Seattle Breakers
1980-1981 Birmingham Bulls
1981-1982 Oklahoma City Stars
1982-1992 Calgary Flames
1992-1993 Nordiques de Québec
1993-1996 Vancouver Canucks
1996-1997 San Jose Sharks

Timothy Robert "Tim" Hunter (born September 10, 1960 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 947 games for the Calgary Flames , Nordiques de Québec , Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks has played in the National Hockey League on the position of fullback and right winger . Hunter celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Calgary Flames by winning the Stanley Cup in 1989 .

Following his playing career, he worked as assistant coach for the Washington Capitals , San Jose Sharks and Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL between 1997 and 2013 . Hunter has been head coach of the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Western Hockey League since 2014 and has been coach of the Canadian U20 national team since 2018 .

Career

Player career

Hunter first played in 1977 in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCJHL) before he moved to the Seattle Breakers in the Western Canada Hockey League , the forerunner of the Western Hockey League, for the 1978/79 season. After he had been selected in the third round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1979 in 54th position by the Atlanta Flames , he played until the 1981/82 season in various lower class leagues. Only during the season, when the Flames had moved from Atlanta to Calgary , he ran for the first time in two games for the Calgary Flames and stayed there until the end of the 1991/92 season . During his time in Calgary he won the Stanley Cup with the team in 1989 , and in the 1984/85 season he had his most productive game year with 22 points in 71 games.

Due to the NHL Expansion Draft in 1992 , the Canadian had to switch to the Tampa Bay Lightning , who transferred him to the Nordiques de Québec only a day later . The Nordiques put the right winger on the waiver list in February of the 1992/93 season , from where the Vancouver Canucks , with whom he again reached the Stanley Cup final in 1994, selected. There his contract ran out at the end of the 1995/96 season and Hunter signed as a free agent a contract with the San Jose Sharks , where he played his last season. With a total of 3,142 penalty minutes, Hunter is the eighth most player in NHL history.

Coaching career

CanadaCanada  Tim Hunter
Tim Hunter (ice hockey player)
Coaching stations
1997-2002 Washington Capitals (assistant coach)
2002-2008 San Jose Sharks (Assistant Coach)
2008-2011 Toronto Maple Leafs (Assistant Coach)
2012-2013 Washington Capitals (assistant coach)
since 2014 Moose Jaw Warriors
Hockey Canada

For the 1997/98 season Hunter began his career as an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals , where he worked under head coach Ron Wilson . After the 2001/02 season , Hunter's contract, like Wilson's, was not renewed. After Wilson began a new engagement with the San Jose Sharks on December 5, 2002, Hunter was appointed assistant coach of the team on December 6, 2002. There he worked with the team's attackers until 2008, before Ron Wilson was dismissed at the end of the season. After Wilson had accepted the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs a little later and Hunter initially remained in the organization of the Sharks, the Maple Leafs signed him in July 2008. In Toronto Hunter was active as an assistant coach under Ron Wilson in the three following seasons. In June 2011, the Leafs announced that he and Keith Acton would be discontinued and replaced by the duo Greg Cronin and Scott Gordon .

After he was assistant coach of the Washington Capitals under Adam Oates for another year in the 2012/13 season , he switched to the junior division and has been head coach of the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Western Hockey League since 2014 . In addition, he was entrusted with the supervision of the Canadian U18 selection at the U18 Junior World Championship 2015 and won the bronze medal with the team in the title fights in Switzerland. Since 2018 he has been promoted to head coach of the Canadian U20 national team in the Hockey Canada Association , where he had been an assistant since 2016.

Together with Rob Zettler , he was the first professional sports trainer to receive a certificate from the Positive Coaching Alliance , an organization that takes care of sports as a character-building measure.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1977/78 Kamloops Chiefs BCJHL 51 9 28 37 266 - - - - -
1977/78 Seattle Breakers WCHL 3 1 2 3 4th - - - - -
1978/79 Seattle Breakers WHL 70 8th 41 49 300 - - - - -
1979/80 Seattle Breakers WHL 72 14th 53 67 311 12 1 2 3 41
1980/81 Birmingham Bulls CHL 58 3 5 8th 236 - - - - -
1980/81 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 17th 0 0 0 62 6th 0 1 1 45
1981/82 Oklahoma City Stars CHL 55 4th 12 16 222 - - - - -
1981/82 Calgary Flames NHL 2 0 0 0 9 - - - - -
1982/83 Colorado Flames CHL 46 5 12 17th 225 - - - - -
1982/83 Calgary Flames NHL 16 1 0 1 54 9 1 0 1 70
1983/84 Calgary Flames NHL 43 4th 4th 8th 130 7th 0 0 0 21st
1984/85 Calgary Flames NHL 71 11 11 22nd 259 4th 0 0 0 24
1985/86 Calgary Flames NHL 66 8th 7th 15th 291 19th 0 3 3 108
1986/87 Calgary Flames NHL 73 6th 15th 21st 357 6th 0 0 0 51
1987/88 Calgary Flames NHL 68 8th 5 13 337 9 4th 0 4th 32
1988/89 Calgary Flames NHL 75 3 9 12 375 19th 0 4th 4th 32
1989/90 Calgary Flames NHL 67 2 3 5 279 6th 0 0 0 4th
1990/91 Calgary Flames NHL 34 5 2 7th 143 7th 0 0 0 10
1991/92 Calgary Flames NHL 30th 1 3 4th 167 - - - - -
1992/93 Nordiques de Québec NHL 48 5 3 8th 94 - - - - -
1992/93 Vancouver Canucks NHL 26th 0 4th 4th 99 11 0 0 0 26th
1993/94 Vancouver Canucks NHL 56 3 4th 7th 171 24 0 0 0 26th
1994/95 Vancouver Canucks NHL 34 3 2 5 120 11 0 0 0 22nd
1995/96 Vancouver Canucks NHL 60 2 0 2 122 - - - - -
1996/97 San Jose Sharks NHL 46 0 4th 4th 135 - - - - -
BCJHL total 51 9 28 37 266 - - - - -
W (C) HL total 145 23 96 119 615 12 1 2 3 41
CHL total 159 12 29 41 683 - - - - -
NHL overall 815 62 76 138 3142 132 5 7th 12 426

( 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 : Tim Hunter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leafs Appoint Two New Assistant Coaches. Toronto Maple Leafs, June 20, 2011, accessed June 20, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Timothy Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada