Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan
Date of birth	3rd October 1967
place of birth	Melville , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1986 , 5th round, 104th position New York Islanders
Career stations
1983-1987	Saskatoon Blades
1987-1989	Springfield Indians
1989-1992	Utrecht Rheem Racers

Todd Andrew McLellan (born October 3, 1967 in Melville , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his career, he completed five games for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League in the 1987/88 season . He then became known primarily as head coach in the NHL, where he previously looked after the San Jose Sharks (2008-2015) and the Edmonton Oilers (2015-2018) and has recently been behind the gang since April 2019 at the Los Angeles Kings .

Career

As a player

Todd McLellan began his career in 1983 with the Saskatoon Blades in the Canadian Junior League WHL . After a solid debut season he was able to improve and in his second year came within 41 games to 50 scorer points. The following season was missing McLellan largely due to an injury, but could in the playoffs with nine goals in 13 games call attention to themselves, so it the New York Islanders in the NHL Entry Draft in 1986 selected in the fifth round at position 104th McLellan stayed with the Blades for another year, playing his best season with 34 goals and 39 assists . In 1987/88 he played for the first time with the professionals and spent most of the season with the Springfield Indians , the farm team of the Islanders from the American Hockey League , but also came five times in the National Hockey League, scoring one goal. He stayed with the Indians for another year, but was no longer appointed to the NHL squad by the Islanders.

He then moved to Europe in 1989, where he was active in the Dutch Eredivisie as a player-coach for the Utrecht Rheem Racers . In 1991 and 1992 he led the team to win the Dutch championship . After successfully defending his title in 1992, McLellan finally ended his playing career and returned to North America.

As a trainer

Todd McLellan
Coaching stations
1989-1992	Utrecht Rheem Racers (player-coach)
1993-1994	North Battleford North Stars
1994-2000	Swift Current Broncos
2000-2001	Cleveland Lumberjacks
2001-2005	Houston Eros
2005-2008	Detroit Red Wings (Assistant Coach)
2008-2015	San Jose Sharks
2015-2018	Edmonton Oilers
since 2019	Los Angeles Kings

A year later he took over the coaching post with the North Battleford North Stars from the lower class Canadian Junior League Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , before he was head coach of the Swift Current Broncos in the first-class Western Hockey League in 1994 . After a weak first season, McLellan was able to position the Broncos among the top teams in the league, but they did not succeed in the playoffs. In addition to his coaching duties, he also became the team's general manager in 1996 and received the 1997 Lloyd Saunders Memorial Trophy as WHL official of the year. After leading the team to 47 wins in the 1999/2000 season, the second best in franchise history , he was awarded the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy as the best coach in the WHL. At the turn of the year 1999/2000 he had looked after the Canadian U20 national team as an assistant coach at the U20 Junior World Championship in Sweden under head coach Claude Julien and won the bronze medal.

McLellan decided after the successful season to switch to the seniors and took over the Cleveland Lumberjacks from the International Hockey League . However, the league disbanded in 2001 and McLellan moved to the AHL, where he was the head coach of the Houston Eros . The franchise, which made its debut season in the AHL, he was able to lead straight into the playoffs and the conference finals, but where they were subject to the Chicago Wolves . The 2002/03 regular season ended the Eros with 47 wins from 80 games in second place in the Western Conference and finally won the AHL playoffs after beating the Grand Rapids Griffins in the Conference final and the Calder Cup final Hamilton Bulldogs had to go the full distance of seven games each. However, the team did not succeed in defending their title. Instead, the team slipped significantly in the league and could not qualify directly for the playoffs, so you had to play in the qualifying round against the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and lost. In the 2004/05 season , the performance of the Eros improved again, but they did not get beyond the first playoff round.

In the summer of 2005 he joined the coaching staff of the Detroit Red Wings around Mike Babcock , where he was responsible for the offensive department of the team as an assistant coach alongside Paul MacLean and Jim Bedard . McLellan had a share in the success of the team, which was one of the top three outnumbered teams in the NHL in 2005/06 and 2007/08 , primarily through the establishment of the power play . In 2008 he finally won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings in the final against the Pittsburgh Penguins .

Just a week after the triumph was McLellan his first head coach positions in the NHL, as it the San Jose Sharks as the successor to Ron Wilson presented and seventh head coach in the history of the franchise. He selected Todd Richards , Trent Yawney, and Jay Woodcroft as assistants . McLellan immediately got on well in his new role. In the preparation for the season he gave the Sharks a completely new face with a new offensively oriented basic tactic, after they had mostly been more defensive in previous years. This paid off when the team - from the start of the season - asserted itself at the top of the league and after 30 games this season surpassed the start record of the Boston Bruins from the 1929/30 season . As a reward for his work, the Canadian was named head coach of the All-Stars of the Western Conference at the 57th NHL All-Star Game . This had previously been achieved with Doug MacLean in 1996, only one other head coach in his first season.

McLellan led the Sharks six times in a row in the playoffs and a Presidents' Trophy and was active twice as a coach in the NHL All-Star Game . After the 2014/15 season, in which the team missed the playoffs for the first time under him, his contract was terminated by mutual agreement. He left the Sharks as a coach with the most games, most wins and the highest win rate.

Immediately afterwards, he was behind the gang as coach of the Canadian national team at the 2015 World Cup and won the gold medal there with the team. Immediately afterwards it was announced that McLellan would be the new head coach of the Edmonton Oilers .

In September 2016, McLellan served as Team North America's head coach at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , a selection of U23 players from Canada and the United States.

McLellan led the Oilers into the Conference semi-finals of the playoffs in his second season, but missed the post-season the following year, so that he was dismissed in November 2018 after a poor start to the 2018/19 season with only nine wins out of 20 games. He was succeeded by Ken Hitchcock .

At the end of the 2018/19 season he was introduced as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Kings , where he succeeded interim coach Willie Desjardins .

Achievements and Awards

1991 Dutch champion with the Utrecht Rheem Racers (as player- coach ) 1992 Dutch champion with the Utrecht Rheem Racers (as player- coach ) 1997 Lloyd Saunders Memorial Trophy 2000 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship (as assistant coach) 2000 Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy 2003 Calder Cup win with the Houston Eros

2003 Best Minor League Coach of the Season (Awarded by The Hockey News ) 2008 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings (as assistant coach) 2009 head coach at the NHL All-Star Game 2012 head coach at the NHL All-Star Game 2015 gold medal at the world championship

Career statistics

As a player

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1983/84	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		50	8th	14th	22nd	15th		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		41	15th	35	50	33		3	1	0	1	0
1985/86	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		27	9	10	19th	13		13	9	3	12	8th
1986/87	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		60	34	39	73	66		6th	1	1	2	2
1987/88	Springfield Indians	AHL		70	18th	26th	44	32		-	-	-	-	-
	New York Islanders	NHL		5	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Springfield Indians	AHL		37	7th	19th	26th	17th		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Utrecht Rheem Racers	Eredivisie
1990/91	Utrecht Rheem Racers	Eredivisie
1991/92	Utrecht Rheem Racers	Eredivisie		30th	24	19th	43	36		7th	0	6th	6th	6th
Eredivisie total
WHL overall				178	66	98	164	127		22nd	11	4th	15th	10
AHL total				107	25th	45	70	49		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				5	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-

( 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 )

As a trainer

			Regular season								Playoffs
season	team	league	GC	W.	L.	T	OTL	Pts	Win%		GC	W.	L.	result
1989/90	Utrecht Rheem Racers	Eredivisie							.
1990/91	Utrecht Rheem Racers	Eredivisie							.					Dutch master
1991/92	Utrecht Rheem Racers	Eredivisie							.					Dutch master
1992/93	without contract		-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-
1993/94	North Battleford North Stars	SJHL							.
1994/95	Swift Current Broncos	WHL	72	31	34	7th	-	69	0.479		6th	2	4th	1 round
1995/96	Swift Current Broncos	WHL	72	36	31	5	-	77	0.535		6th	2	4th	Conference quarterfinals
1996/97	Swift Current Broncos	WHL	72	44	23	5	-	93	0.646		10	6th	4th	Conference semifinals
1997/98	Swift Current Broncos	WHL	72	44	19th	9	-	97	0.674		12	7th	5	Conference semifinals
1998/99	Swift Current Broncos	WHL	72	34	32	6th	-	74	0.514		6th	2	4th	Conference quarterfinals
1999/00	Swift Current Broncos	WHL	72	47	18th	4th	3	101	0.701		12	6th	6th
2000	Canada	U20 World Cup	Assistant coach under Claude Julien
2000/01	Cleveland Lumberjacks	IHL	82	43	32	0	7th	93	0.567	4th	0	4th	Quarter finals
2001/02	Houston Eros	AHL	80	39	26th	10	5	93	0.581	14th	8th	6th	Conference finals
2002/03	Houston Eros	AHL	80	47	23	7th	3	104	0.650	23	15th	8th	Calder Cup winner
2003/04	Houston Eros	AHL	80	28	34	14th	4th	74	0.463	2	0	2	qualification
2004/05	Houston Eros	AHL	80	40	28	6th	6th	92	0.575	5	1	4th	Divisional semi-finals
2005/06	Detroit Red Wings	NHL	Assistant coach under Mike Babcock
2006/07	Detroit Red Wings	NHL	Assistant coach under Mike Babcock
2007/08	Detroit Red Wings	NHL	Assistant coach under Mike Babcock
2008/09	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	53	18th	-	11	117	0.713	6th	2	4th	1 round
2009/10	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	51	20th	-	11	113	0.689	15th	8th	7th	Conference finals
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	48	25th	-	9	105	0.640	18th	9	9	Conference finals
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	43	29	-	10	96	0.585	5	1	4th	1 round
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL	48	25th	16	-	7th	57	0.594	11	7th	4th	Conference semifinals
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	51	22nd	-	9	111	0.677	7th	3	4th	1 round
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	40	33	-	9	89	0.543	Missed the playoffs
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	82	31	43	-	8th	70	0.427	Missed the playoffs
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	82	47	26th	-	9	103	0.628	13	7th	6th	Conference semifinals
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	82	36	40	-	6th	78	0.476	Missed the playoffs
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	20th	9	10	-	1	19th	0.475	dismiss
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL	70	29	35	-	6th	64	0.457	Missed the playoffs
WHL overall			432	236	157	36	3	511	0.592	52	25th	27	6 participations
IHL total			82	43	32	0	7th	93	0.567	4th	0	4th	1 participation
AHL total			320	154	111	37	18th	363	0.567	44	24	20th	3 participations
NHL overall			876	463	317	-	96	1022	0.583	75	37	38	7 participations

( 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 )

Web links

• Todd McLellan at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Todd McLellan at eliteprospects.com (English)