Trotz is the 17th coach in Capitals history after spending 15 seasons as coach of the Nashville Predators. Trotz replaced coach Adam Oates, who was fired April 25.
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\nTrotz was the longest-tenured coach in the NHL and the only coach in Predators history. Trotz ranks third in games coached (1,196) and wins (557) with a single franchise. He ranks 15th on the NHL coaching victories list and fourth among active coaches behind Joel Quenneville (Chicago Blackhawks; 706), Ken Hitchcock (St. Louis Blues; 657) and Lindy Ruff (Dallas Stars; 611).
Prior to joining the Predators, Trotz spent five seasons (1992-97) as coach of the Capitals' affiliate in the American Hockey League. He was named coach of the Baltimore Skipjacks in 1992 after one season as an assistant coach. Following a relocation to Portland, Maine, in 1993, he coached the Portland Pirates to two Calder Cup Final appearances during the next four seasons. In 1994-95, Trotz coached Portland to a Calder Cup championship and a league-best 43-27-10 record; he was named AHL Coach of the Year.
\nThe first and only coach in franchise history, Barry Trotz is regarded as one of the top bench bosses in the game today, having been a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s top coach in both 2009-10 and 2010-11, and finishing among the top five in Adams voting again in 2011-12.Craig Hartsburg was named associate coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets on June 20, 2012.
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\nHartsburg, who spent last season as associate coach of the Calgary Flames, brings over two decades of coaching experience to the Blue Jackets, including serving as the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks from 1995-98, Anaheim Ducks from 1998-2001 and Ottawa Senators in 2008-09.
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\nHe led his clubs to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in three of his five full seasons as a head coach and also served as an assistant coach with the Minnesota North Stars (1989-90) and Philadelphia Flyers (1990-94, 2002-04).
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\n"Craig Hartsburg has been a successful head coach at every level of hockey including the NHL, has been an assistant or associate coach in the League and was an All-Star as a player, so I feel very fortunate to add a coach and person of his caliber to our staff," Richards said. "He will be a valuable resource for me, our staff and players, and I am very happy to welcome him to the Columbus Blue Jackets."
On the international stage, Tortorella most recently served as assistant coach for the silver medal-winning Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. He also was Team USA’s coach at the 2008 World Championship and an assistant at the 2005 World Championship.
\r\nPrior to his coaching career, Tortorella played right wing as a member of Salem State College and the University of Maine of the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC). He continued his playing career in Sweden before returning to North America where he joined the Hampton Road Gulls, Erie Golden Blades and Virginia Lancers of the ACHL.??
\r\nTortorella and his wife, Chris, have two children, Brittany and Dominick.
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Hitchcock began his professional coaching career as an assistant coach with the Flyers from 1990-93 before spending two-plus seasons as the head coach of the Kalamazoo Wings/Michigan K-Wings, Dallas' International Hockey League affiliate. He took over as head coach of the Stars midway through the 1995-96 season and in his first full season at the helm led them to the Central Division title. That year, Dallas became just the ninth team in NHL history to go from last place to first place in one season. The club's 38-point improvement from 66 to 104 was tied for the fifth-best in league history. Hitchcock spent parts of five seasons in Dallas, compiling a 277-160-60 regular season record and 47-33 playoff mark. He led his teams to five-straight Central Division titles (1996-01), two President's Trophies (1997-98, 1998-99) and two Western Conference championships (1999, 2000) in addition to the 1999 Stanley Cup. He holds Stars franchise records for career wins (277), playoff wins (47), regular season winning percentage (.610) and playoff winning percentage (.588) and in 1998-99 led the club to franchise single season records for wins, points and highest winning percentage with a 51-19-12 mark. On May 14, 2002, he was named Flyers head coach and led the club to a 131-73-50 record during the regular season and a 19-18 mark in the playoffs. Philadelphia posted three-straight 100-point seasons from 2002-06, captured the Atlantic Division title in 2003-04 and also advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals that year. On Mar. 21, 2006, Hitchcock guided the Flyers to a 2-1 win over New Jersey, becoming the fifth-fastest coach in NHL history to record 400 wins (736 games). 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He compiled a mark of 266-155-59 and led the Pirates to the playoffs in five of the six seasons. He had a winning percentage of .616, the best in that club's history.
\nDineen's most successful AHL season came during the 05-06 campaign when he guided the Pirates to a 53-19-8 record. For his efforts, he was selected the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award winner as the AHL's outstanding coach. He has coached current NHL players such as Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf, Bobby Ryan, Dustin Penner and Mathieu Darche and was responsible for coaching the last three AHL rookies of the year (Luke Adam in 10-11, Tyler Ennis in 09-10 and Nathan Gerbe in 08-09).
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\nA third round draft pick of the Hartford Whalers in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, Dineen played in 1,188 career National Hockey League games with Hartford (1984-91 & 1995-97), Philadelphia (1991-95), Carolina (1997-99), Ottawa (1999-2000) and Columbus (2000-03). Throughout his 19-year NHL playing career, he scored 355 goals with 405 assists and 2,229 PIM. He also served as team captain while playing for Philadelphia, Hartford and Carolina.
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\nDineen appeared in two NHL All-Star Games while playing for Hartford (1988 & 1989). Dineen was also named the 90-91 NHL Man-of-the-Year and was a three-time finalist for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (1995, 2001 & 2002). After retiring as a player on Nov. 5, 2002, Dineen spent two seasons working in the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey operations department.
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\nBorn in Quebec, he has represented Canada on numerous occasions including the 1984 Olympic Games, 1987 Canada Cup and three World Championship Tournaments (1985, 1989 and 1993). Prior to turning pro, Dineen played two seasons at the University of Denver (WCHA) and was named team captain during his sophomore season.
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\nKevin and his wife, Annie, have two daughters, Hannah and Emma, and two sons, William and Declan. He is the son of former NHL player and head coach Bill Dineen and a brother of former NHL players Gord and Peter. His other brothers, Shawn and Jerry, were minor league hockey players. Gord is currently an assistant coach with the Toronto Marlies (AHL), Jerry is currently the video coach of the New York Rangers, Shawn is a scout with the Nashville Predators and Peter is a scout with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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\nDineen is also a spokesperson for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, whose mission is to cure Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and to improve the quality of life of children and adults affected by these digestive diseases.
Prior to joining the Coyotes, Newell Brown spent the previous three seasons with the Vancouver Canucks as an Assistant Coach. He was named to the Vancouver staff on August 3, 2010 and he helped the Canucks to consecutive President’s Trophies in 2010-11 and 2011-12 in addition to an appearance in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.
\nBrown joined the Canucks after spending five seasons as an Assistant Coach with the Anaheim Ducks. Prior to that, he held the roles of Associate Coach and Assistant Coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Anaheim Mighty Ducks and Chicago Blackhawks dating back to the 1996-97 season.
\nBefore joining the NHL ranks, Brown spent four seasons as Head Coach of the Adirondack Red Wings, Detroit’s AHL affiliate. He recorded a 151-132-36-2 record and four consecutive postseason appearances with Adirondack. He also served as Head Coach of Michigan Tech University from 1990-1992 after serving as an Assistant Coach at Michigan State from 1986-1990.
\nOn the international stage, Brown was Head Coach of Team Canada when they secured a silver medal at the 1988 Spengler Cup.
\nA native of Cornwall, ONT, Brown played two seasons with the Cornwall Royals, where he helped the Royals win the Memorial Cup in 1979. After being drafted by Vancouver 158th overall in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, Brown spent one year in the Canucks organization playing for Fredericton (AHL) and Muskegon (IHL) before captaining the Canadian National Team in 1985-86. Brown captained Michigan State in the final three years of his four-year tenure from 1980-1984 and finished his collegiate career with 186 points (66-120-186) in 146 games.
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","dateOfDeath":null,"deceased":false,"description":"Sylvain Lefebvre served as an assistant under Joe Sacco in Lake Erie for two seasons before joining him with the Avalanche for the 2009-10 season.Jean began coaching at the age of 14 and has went on to coach under the supervision of some of the best hockey has to offer, including Vladislav Tretiak, Francois Allaire and Phil Myre. He also operated a goalie school with former Canadiens goaltending coach and ex-NHLer Roland Melanson.
\nIn the summers of 2009 and 2010, Jean was selected as the goaltending consultant for the Hockey Canada Summer National Under-18 team that won the Gold Medals at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament. Since 2002, he has done several goaltending seminars for the Atlantic Center of Excellence and for Hockey Canada’s Advance Level 2 Coaching Program. Jean is also a member of Hockey Canada’s National Goaltending Consultants Team.
\nJean played major junior hockey with St-Hyacinthe and Victoriaville of the QMJHL, and after a tryout with the Montreal Canadiens earned a scholarship to the Université de Moncton where he played for four and a half seasons, winning the 1994-95 national championship and being named to the 1992-93 AUAA First All-Star Team.
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","featuredImage":null,"firstName":"Adam","fullName":"Adam Deadmarsh","history":null,"hockeyHofLink":null,"inHockeyHof":false,"inIihfHockeyHof":false,"inUsHockeyHof":false,"instagram":null,"isActive":false,"lastName":"Deadmarsh","nationalityCode":"USA","playerId":8459436,"stanleyCup":1,"teamId":null,"top100PlayerLink":null,"twitter":null},{"id":1747,"bio":null,"birthCity":"Arlington","birthCountry3code":"USA","birthDate":"1963-06-02T00:00:00","birthStateProvinceCode":"MA","briefDescription":"Greg Cronin was named Assistant Coach of the New York Islanders on June 16, 2014.","dateOfDeath":null,"deceased":false,"description":"On June 16, the New York Islanders named Greg Cronin as an assistant coach to Jack Capuano's staff. He will join Capuano and assistants Doug Weight, Bob Corkum and Matt Bertani behind the Islanders bench. Cronin, 51, returns to the Islanders franchise after nearly a decade coaching at the collegiate and professional level. Cronin, who served as an assistant for the Islanders from 1999-2003 and head coach of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers from 2003-05, has in the interim earned a wealth of collegiate and professional experience.Nashville, Tenn. (June 12, 2014) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has named Ben Vanderklok the team’s goaltending coach. The Welland, Ontario native has served as the organization’s assistant goaltending coach for the past five seasons.
\nSince 2009, Vanderklok has worked nearly all the goalies within the organization, from Pekka Rinne, Carter Hutton, Anders Lindback, Chris Mason and Dan Ellis at the NHL level to Jeremy Smith, Magnus Hellberg, Marek Mazanec, Mark Dekanich and Scott Darling with the American Hockey League’s Milwaukee Admirals and ECHL’s Cincinnati Cyclones.
\nHis work was integral in Mazanec’s transition to North America in 2013-14, which saw him play 25 games with the Predators, becoming the youngest in club history to record a shutout on Nov. 19, 2013 at Detroit and being named the NHL's Rookie of the Month for November 2013. Also last season, Darling came to the organization with one AHL game to his credit, and ended 2013-14 ranked among the league leaders in save percentage (.933), goals-against average (2.00) and shutouts (6) for the Admirals.
\n\nVanderklok has also worked as goalie coach of the Ontario Hockey League’s Niagara IceDogs since 2008, helping them reach the playoffs for six consecutive seasons and reach the OHL Final in 2011-12. During his first four seasons with the IceDogs, Vanderklok helped Hamilton, Ontario native Mark Visentin become a first-round pick of the Phoenix Coyotes (27th overall), earn silver (2011) and bronze (2012) medals with Team Canada at the World Junior Championship, become 2011 OHL Goaltender of the Year, and earn the 2012 Dave Pinkney Trophy as the goalie with the lowest goals-against average.
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Vanderklok started his coaching career with the Port Colborne Pirates of the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League (Junior B) from 2003-06 before instructing and training Brock University’s (Ontario) goalies from 2007-09. Since 2003, he has run Ben Vanderklok Goaltending, which conducts camps and clinics in the St. Catharine’s, Ontario region.
\nA dual Canadian-Dutch citizen, Vanderklok retired from play following four seasons (2000-04) and two league titles in 2002 and 2003 with the Amsterdam Tigers of the Netherlands Elite League. He played a pair of seasons with the OHL’s Barrie Colts from 1998-2000.
\nThe 32-year-old and his wife Marlene have a daughter, Ava.
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\nHedberg played in 373 career NHL games spanning 12 seasons with Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Dallas, Atlanta and New Jersey, posting a 161-143-36 record, 22 shutouts and a 2.82 goals-against average. Amongst Swedish-born netminders, Hedberg ranks 3rd all-time in wins behind only Henrik Lundqvist (339) and Tommy Salo (210).Briere joins the Leafs after serving as the owner and head instructor of Canadian Professional Goalie Schools in addition to his role as goaltender coach with several Junior level teams (the NAHL’s Topeka Roadrunners as well as the USHL’s Fargo Force and Des Moines Buccaneers). Briere also served an assistant at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, helping the Chargers capture the CHA Championship in 2007.
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\nElkin spent three seasons as the Calgary Flames’ goaltending coach from 1999 to 2002. The veteran coach operates Jon Elkin’s Goalie Schools in Toronto, which has grown into one of the largest goalie schools in the world. Elkin founded the school in 1984 at the age of 16.
\nElkin has now coached 21 NHL goalies including Coyotes’ netminder Mike Smith, who began training with Elkin when he was 12 years old.
\nPrior to joining the Coyotes, Elkin served as the goalie coach for the Soo St. Marie Greyhounds of the OHL. He also spent six seasons as the St. Michaels Majors’ goalie coach. During his tenure with the Majors, the team used seven goalies in total. Of those seven, three have gone on to play in the NHL and two signed NHL contracts.
\nIn 2004, Elkin won the OHL Championship with the Peterborough Petes. His students have earned five OHL Goalie of the Year trophies, one CHL Goalie of the Year award, one OHL MVP honor, four Dinty Moore trophies & one NHL Rookie of the Year award.
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