Willie Desjardins
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| 1985-1994 | University of Calgary |
| 1994-1996 | Seibu Bears Tokyo |
| 1997-1998 | Saskatoon Blades |
| 1998-1999 | Canada ( assistant coach ) |
| 2002-2011 | Medicine Hat Tigers |
| 2011–2012 | Dallas Stars (Assistant Trainer) |
| 2012-2014 | Texas Stars |
| 2014-2017 | Vancouver Canucks |
| 2018-2019 | Los Angeles Kings |
Willie Desjardins (born February 11, 1957 in Climax , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach. In the National Hockey League he was previously the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks and the Los Angeles Kings .
Career
Player career
Desjardins began his career in the 1971/72 season with the Moose Jaw Canucks in the Canadian Junior League Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , before moving to the Swift Current Broncos during the current 1974/75 season within the league . The Canadian then completed two seasons for the Lethbridge Broncos in the Western Canada Hockey League . Between 1978 and 1982, the attacker was on the ice for the University of Saskatchewan university team in the CIS . For the 1983/84 season he moved to Europe and played with the Nijmegen Tigers in the Dutch Eredivisie , where he immediately won the championship with the Tigers .
Activity as a trainer
After his active playing career, Desjardins was active as a coach and from the 1985/86 season was active as an assistant coach for the university team of the University of Calgary in the CIS , before he was promoted to head coach in 1989 and remained in this position until 1994. From the 1994/95 season, the Canadian coached the Seibu Bears Tokyo in the Japan Ice Hockey League for two seasons and returned to North America in the current 1997/98 season, where he was in charge of the Saskatoon Blades in the Western Hockey League for the remainder of the season .
In the following season Desjardins acted as an assistant coach of the Canadian national ice hockey team , before he was active again in the WHL from 2002 and there took over the head coach of the Medicine Hat Tigers . From the 2005/06 season , Desjardins was also active as the club's general manager and was able to win the championship twice during his tenure as well as participate in the Memorial Cup . In addition, he was employed in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons, first as co-coach and later as head coach of the Canadian U20 national ice hockey team , with which he won the U20 Junior World Championship at the 2009 World Cup.
Between 2010 and 2012 Desjardins was an assistant coach for the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League (NHL). For the 2012/13 season he took over the Texas Stars , the farm team from Dallas in the American Hockey League (AHL), as head coach and led the team to their first Calder Cup win the following season . In the summer of 2014, the Canadian was signed by the NHL club Vancouver Canucks , where he succeeded the previously dismissed John Tortorella for the 2014/15 season .
After three years in Vancouver, in which he only reached the playoffs in the first season, Desjardins was sacked in April 2017 along with his assistants Doug Lidster and Perry Pearn . At the end of December 2017, he led the Canadian selection as head coach to win the Spengler Cup . A little later he also acted as head coach at the 2018 Winter Olympics and won the bronze medal there with the team.
Desjardins returned to the NHL as head coach in November 2018, replacing John Stevens with the Los Angeles Kings . There Desjardins initially received a contract until the end of the season, which was not subsequently extended.
Achievements and Awards
- 1984 Dutch championship with the Nijmegen Tigers
- 2004 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Medicine Hat Tigers
- 2007 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Medicine Hat Tigers
- 2009 gold medal at the U20 World Cup
- 2013 Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award
- 2014 Calder Cup win with the Texas Stars
- 2017 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada
- 2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Web links
- Willie Desjardins at hockeydb.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ texasstarshockey.com Dallas names Willie Desjardins Head Coach of Texas Stars ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ canucks.nhl.com Willie Desjardins named Canucks head coach
- ↑ https://www.watson.ch/Sport/Eismeister%20Zaugg/306322467-Finalniederlage-am-Spengler-Cup-–-die-schmerzhaft-Rückkehr-in-die-taktische-Wirklichkeit
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Head coach: Red Kelly (1967–1969) | Hal Laycoe (1969) | Johnny Wilson (1969-1970) | Larry Regan (1970–1971) | Fred Glover (1971-1972) | Bob Pulford (1972-1977) | Ron Stewart (1977-1978) | Bob Berry (1978-1981) | Parker MacDonald (1981-1982) | Don Perry (1982-1984) | Rogatien Vachon (1984) | Roger Neilson (1984) | Pat Quinn (1984-1986) | Mike Murphy (1986-1987) | Rogatien Vachon (1987) | Robbie Ftorek (1988-1989) | Tom Webster (1989-1992) | Barry Melrose (1992-1995) | Rogatien Vachon (1995) | Larry Robinson (1995-1999) | Andy Murray (1999-2006) | John Torchetti (2006) | Marc Crawford (2006-2008) | Terry Murray (2008-2011) | John Stevens (2011) | Darryl Sutter (2011-2017) | John Stevens (2017-2018) | Willie Desjardins (2018-2019) (2017-2018) | Todd McLellan (since 2019)
General Manager: Larry Regan (1967–1973) | Jake Milford (1973-1977) | George Maguire (1977-1984) | Rogatien Vachon (1984-1992) | Nick Beverley (1992-1994) | Sam McMaster (1994-1997) | Dave Taylor (1997-2006) | Dean Lombardi (2006-2017) | Rob Blake (since 2017)
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| SURNAME | Desjardins, Willie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Climax , Saskatchewan , Canada |