Trent Yawney

Trent Yawney
Date of birth	September 29, 1965
place of birth	Hudson Bay , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	190 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1984 , 3rd round, 45th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1981-1985	Saskatoon Blades
1985-1988	Team Canada
1988-1991	Chicago Blackhawks
1991-1996	Calgary Flames
1996-1997	St. Louis Blues
1997-1999	Chicago Blackhawks

Trent G. Yawney (born September 29, 1965 in Hudson Bay , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his career he played for the Chicago Blackhawks , Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . As head coach, he then looked after the Chicago Blackhawks before he worked as an assistant coach at the Anaheim Ducks and the Edmonton Oilers . He has been active in the same position with the Los Angeles Kings since the 2019/20 season .

Career

Yawney first played at the age of 16 with the Saskatoon J's in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , a second-rate Canadian junior league. In the course of the 1981/82 season he came to his first assignments with the higher class playing Saskatoon Blades from the Western Hockey League . From the 1982/83 season he was an integral part of the regular squad. In his rookie season he ran in 59 encounters and was able to score 37 scorer points as a defender. In the following two years of play, Yawney developed into one of the best, offensively-minded defenders in the WHL, as he was able to increase his point yield to 59 and then to 67 points. However, there were no successes with the team in the championship.

After just one year before the end of his junior career in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft in the third round to 45th place by the Chicago Blackhawks had been selected, Yawney decided in autumn 1985 for the time being against a change turned professional and joined the Canadian National Team at under the direction of head coach Dave King , who wanted to prepare for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary in the long term . Due to the amateur status for athletes at the Olympic Games at the time, the players were not contractually bound and could thus prepare for the games in their home country Canada for three years. In addition to Yawney, who was the captain of the team, Wally Schreiber , Brian Bradley , Zarley Zalapski , Andy Moog and Sean Burke also belonged to the later Olympic squad. Nevertheless, the long preparation time was of little use, as the team could only achieve fourth place and thus remained without a medal. Yawney, who came to more than 200 international games later in his career due to the long preparation for the Olympic Games, was, however, in retrospect attested to a great sporting development that he had taken in the three years under Dave King.

Following the Olympic ice hockey tournament, the Chicago Blackhawks took the Olympians under contract, making him his professional debut in the National Hockey League in the 1987/88 season . With ten points in 15 games in the regular season and four more in five playoff games, he knew how to convince. Overall, the Canadian stayed in the " Windy City " for three more years and during this time reached the final of the Western Conference twice with the team , but failed each time at the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers . In addition, he came in spring 1991 to other missions for the Canadian national team at the World Cup in Helsinki, Finland and returned with a silver medal won by the Blackhawks. They transferred him in December 1991, after they found no use for him, for Stéphane Matteau to the Calgary Flames. There Yawney spent the following five seasons, in which he made a solid defender who, compared to his time in the junior leagues, was more focused on the defensive than on the offensive. At the end of the 1995/96 season , his contract had expired, whereupon the defender moved to the St. Louis Blues as a free agent for a year . In the Blues, Yawney came to only 39 missions during the season. Since he had only played fewer games in an NHL season in the 1994/95 season, which was shortened by the lockout to 48 games , he did not extend the expiring contract with St. Louis at the end of the season and returned to the 1997/98 season for the Chicago Blackhawks back. Although he was not used there as regularly as at the beginning of his NHL career, the team still offered him the opportunity to play at a high level. There was an abrupt end to his career in the 1998/99 season on January 9, 1999. During a game against the Colorado Avalanche , Yawney injured his arm so badly that he announced the premature end of his active career on February 24.

With the retirement from active sport, the appointment as assistant coach of the Blackhawks was linked, as the management believed that Yawney had sufficient experience to support the young head coach Lorne Molleken in his work. Despite a trainer shortly after the start of the 1999/2000 season Yawney remained an assistant coach before he in summer 2000 for the first head coach of the newly established franchises of the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League was promoted at the same time as a farm team served the Chicago Blackhawks. Yawney acted five seasons as the main person in charge behind the gang and was able to lead the team into the playoffs every year, where he could, however, advance to the conference semifinals. He also won the division title in 2002 and 2003 and introduced over 50 players to the Blackhawks' NHL squad during the five years of his tenure. Due to his consistently good work with the Admirals, who in the five years under Yawney's direction only scored less than half of the maximum possible points, he became his after Brian Sutter's dismissal as coach of the Chicago Blackhawks in the summer of 2005 Successor and 35th head coach appointed in franchise history. At a higher level, Yawney was unable to continue his successful work as in Norfolk with the weakly staffed Blackhawks squad. Although at the end of the season he had led Chicago to third from bottom of 30 teams with just 65 points, the Canadian ice hockey association Hockey Canada appointed him , alongside the experienced Claude Julien , as one of the assistants to Marc Habscheid , the Canadian national coach at the 2006 world championships in Latvia . At the start of the 2006/07 season , Yawney continued to work as head coach of Chicago, but was replaced by Denis Savard after a weak start to the season with only 16 points from 21 games after the first quarter of the season .

After a personal break as a result of his immediate dismissal in Chicago, Yawney was appointed national coach of the Canadian U18 junior team for the upcoming World Cup in Finland in March 2007 . After an almost flawless preliminary round, the team reached fourth place and thus Yawney remained - as at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 2006 World Cup - without winning a medal. Another break followed before the Anaheim Ducks , the reigning Stanley Cup winner at the time, hired him in August 2007 because of his vast experience as a scout . There, however, Yawney did not stay long in office, since he was committed as one of the assistant coaches in the summer of 2008 by the San Jose Sharks and their new coach Todd McLellan , alongside Todd Richards and Jay Woodcroft . There he worked mainly with the defenders and the outnumbered specialists until the summer of 2011 . He then moved to the Anaheim Ducks as a scout . For the 2012/13 season Yawney returned after seven years with the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League to work again as head coach for the new farm team of the Anaheim Ducks.

After the 2013/14 season, the Anaheim Ducks brought him back to the NHL, where he was henceforth active as an assistant coach; his successor in Norfolk was Jarrod Skalde . After the 2017/18 season, his contract with the Ducks was not renewed, so he was hired together with Glen Gulutzan as Todd McLellan's new assistant coach at the Edmonton Oilers in May 2018 . There, however, he was relieved of his duties after a year, after McLellan had already been fired during the season. The Los Angeles Kings then signed him for the 2019/20 season, again alongside McLellan.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

• 1991 silver medal at the world championship

As a trainer

• 2004 Best Minor League Coach of the Season (Awarded by The Hockey News )

Career statistics

As a player

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981/82	Saskatoon J's	SJHL
	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		6th	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		59	6th	31	37	44		6th	0	2	2	0
1983/84	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		72	13	46	59	81		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		72	16	51	67	158		3	1	6th	7th	7th
1985/86	Team Canada	Int'l		73	6th	15th	21st	60
1986/87	Team Canada	Int'l		51	4th	15th	19th	37
1987/88	Team Canada	Int'l		60	4th	12	16	81
	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		15th	2	8th	10	15th		5	0	4th	4th	8th
1988/89	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		69	5	19th	24	116		15th	3	6th	9	20th
1989/90	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		70	5	15th	20th	82		20th	3	5	8th	27
1990/91	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		61	3	13	16	77		1	0	0	0	0
1991/92	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		9	2	3	5	12		-	-	-	-	-
	Calgary Flames	NHL		47	4th	9	13	45		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Calgary Flames	NHL		63	1	16	17th	67		6th	3	2	5	6th
1993/94	Calgary Flames	NHL		58	6th	15th	21st	60		7th	0	0	0	16
1994/95	Calgary Flames	NHL		37	0	2	2	108		2	0	0	0	2
1995/96	Calgary Flames	NHL		69	0	3	3	88		4th	0	0	0	2
1996/97	St. Louis Blues	NHL		39	0	2	2	17th		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		45	1	0	1	76		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		20th	0	0	0	32		-	-	-	-	-
SJHL overall
WHL overall				209	36	128	164	283		9	1	8th	9	7th
International overall				184	14th	42	56	178
IHL total				9	2	3	5	12		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				593	27	102	129	783		60	9	17th	26th	81

International

Represented Canada to:

• 1988 Winter Olympics
• World Championship 1991
• World Championship 1992

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1988	Canada	Olympia	4th Place		8th	1	1	2	6th
1991	Canada	WM			10	2	4th	6th	4th
1992	Canada	WM	8th place		6th	0	1	1	4th
Men overall					24	3	6th	9	14th

( 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								Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U	OTN	Pt	Victory-%		Sp	S.	N	result
1998/99	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		Assistant coach under Lorne Molleken
1999/00	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		Assistant coach under Bob Pulford
2000/01	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	36	26th	13	5	90	0.563	9	4th	5	Division Final
2001/02	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	38	26th	12	4th	92	0.575	4th	1	3	Conference quarterfinal
2002/03	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	37	26th	12	5	91	0.569	9	5	4th	Conference semifinal
2003/04	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	35	36	4th	5	79	0.494	8th	4th	4th	Division semifinal
2004/05	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	43	30th	-	7th	93	0.581	6th	2	4th	Division semifinal
2005/06	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		82	26th	43	-	13	65	0.396	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		21st	7th	12	-	2	16	0.381	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		Scout under Randy Carlyle
2008/09	San Jose Sharks	NHL		Assistant coach under Todd McLellan
2009/10	San Jose Sharks	NHL		Assistant coach under Todd McLellan
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		Assistant coach under Todd McLellan
2011/12	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		Scout under Randy Carlyle and Bruce Boudreau
AHL total				400	189	144	41	26th	445	0.566	36	16	20th	5 participations
NHL overall				103	33	55	-	15th	81	0.393	-	-	-	0 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

• Trent Yawney at hockeydb.com (English)
• Trent Yawney at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Trent Yawney at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hamptonroads.com: "Hockey | Yawney to NHL; Skalde will coach Admirals " (English, June 24, 2014, accessed July 11, 2014)