Tom Watt
Thomas "Tom" Watt (born June 17, 1935 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey coach who coached the Winnipeg Jets , Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs from 1982 to 1992 .
Career
Watt is one of the few successful coaches who cannot look back on a notable career as a player.
Until 1980 he was initially a player and later a successful coach at the University of Toronto . He moved into the limelight as Canada's assistant coach at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . For the 1980/81 season , the Vancouver Canucks brought him as an assistant to Harry Neale . A year later he got the job of head coach at the Winnipeg Jets in the 1981/82 season . In his first year with the Jets, he managed to improve the point yield by 48 points. For this he was awarded the Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the NHL . During the season after next, his time in Winnipeg ended. At the Canada Cup 1984 he was on the coaching staff of the Canadian team.
From the 1985/86 season he was back behind the gang of the Vancouver Canucks, this time as head coach. In 1987 he was back at the Canada Cup . After two years in Vancouver, he moved to the Calgary Flames as an assistant to Terry Crisp , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 1988/89 season . His next stop was the Toronto Maple Leafs . After a year as an assistant, he took over the team as head coach for the 1991/92 season . In the following years he coached the Maple Leafs farm team , the St. John's Maple Leafs in the American Hockey League .
In 1997 he took over a junior team from the OHL with the Sudbury Wolves . Then returned to the organization of the Calgary Flames and also supported the AHL farm team, the Saint John Flames .
He took his first position in the United States in January 2001, working in player development for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . In the summer of 2005 he took over as a scout with the Florida Panthers .
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup : 1989 (as assistant coach)
Personal awards
- Jack Adams Award : 1982
Web links
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Head Coach:
Toronto Arenas:
Dick Carroll (1917–1919)
Toronto St. Patricks:
Frank Heffernan (1919–1920) |
Frank Carroll (1920-1921) |
George O'Donoghue (1921-1922) |
Charles Querrie (1922–1923) |
Eddie Powers (1923-1926) |
Charles Querrie (1926–1927) |
Mike Rodden (1927)
Toronto Maple Leafs:
Alex Romeril (1927) |
Conn Smythe (1927-1930) |
Art Duncan (1930-1931) |
Dick Irvin (1931-1940) |
Hap Day (1940–1950) |
Joe Primeau (1950-1953) |
King Clancy (1953-1956) |
Howie Meeker (1956-1957) |
Billy Reay (1957-1959) |
Punch Imlach (1960–1969) |
John McLellan (1969-1973) |
Red Kelly (1973-1977) |
Roger Neilson (1977-1979) |
Floyd Smith (1979-1980) |
Dick Duff (1980) |
Punch Imlach (1980) |
Joe Crozier (1980-1981) |
Mike Nykoluk (1980-1984) |
Dan Maloney (1984-1986) |
John Brophy (1986-1988) |
Chief Armstrong (1988-1989) |
Doug Carpenter (1989-1990) |
Tom Watt (1990-1992) |
Pat Burns (1992-1996) |
Nick Beverley (1996) |
Mike Murphy (1996-1998) |
Pat Quinn (1998-2006) |
Paul Maurice (2006-2008) |
Ron Wilson (2008-2012) |
Randy Carlyle (2012-2015) |
Peter Horachek (2015) |
Mike Babcock (2015-2019) |
Sheldon Keefe (since 2019)
General Manager: Charles Querrie (1917–1927) | Conn Smythe (1927-1957) | Hap Day (1957-1958) | Punch Imlach (1958–1969) | Jim Gregory (1969-1979) | Punch Imlach (1979–1981) | Gerry McNamara (1981-1988) | Gord Stellick (1988-1989) | Floyd Smith (1989-1991) | Cliff Fletcher (1991-1997) | Ken Dryden (1997-1999) | Pat Quinn (1999-2003) | John Ferguson (2003-2008) | Cliff Fletcher (2008) | Brian Burke (2008-2013) | Dave Nonis (2013-2015) | Lou Lamoriello (2015-2018) | Kyle Dubas (since 2018)
Head coach: Bobby Hull (1972–1974) | Rudy Pilous (1974-1975) | Bobby Hull (1975) | Rudy Pilous (1975) | Bobby Kromm (1975–1977) | Larry Hillman (1977-1979) | Tom McVie (1979-1980) | Bill Sutherland (1980) | Tom McVie (1980) | Bill Sutherland (1980–1981) | Mike Smith (1981) | Tom Watt (1981-1983) | Barry Long (1983-1986) | John Ferguson (1986) | Dan Maloney (1986-1989) | Rick Bowness (1989) | Bob Murdoch (1989-1991) | John Paddock (1991-1995) | Terry Simpson (1995-1996)
General Manager: Annis Stukus (1972–1974) | Rudy Pilous (1974–1978) | John Ferguson (1978–1988) | Mike Smith (1988-1994) | John Paddock (1994-1996)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watt, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Watt, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario |