Al Sims
Allan Eugene Sims ( born April 18, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who played 1973-1983 for the Boston Bruins, Hartford Whalers, and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League. During the 1996/97 season he was head coach of the San Jose Sharks. His son Tyler is also a professional hockey player.
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Career as a player
Sims, a defender, played first from 1971 to 1973 at the Cornwall Royals in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ( QMJHL ). In the 1971/72 season with the team he reached the finals at the Memorial Cup, which won the Royals. In WHA Amateur Draft 1973 Sims was selected in the second round by 16 out of the New York Raiders. Sims was the first draft pick in franchise history of the newly formed World Hockey Association teams. In addition, it chose the Boston Bruins in the third round to 47th position of the NHL Amateur Drafts from. Sims ultimately decided to play for the Bruins. The seasons of 1973/74 and 1974/75, he completed fully with the Bruins. Followed by four seasons, he spent both in Boston and in their AHL farm team, the Rochester Americans. For the season 1979/80 Sims was selected in the expansion draft by the Hartford Whalers, where he became a full-time NHL pro back in the two seasons he remained with the team. After this period, Sims to the West Coast, where he suffered the same fate with the Los Angeles Kings as in Boston. He spent large parts of two seasons in the AHL with the New Haven Nighthawks and was only sporadically in the NHL used. After two disappointing seasons with the Kings Sims moved first to Switzerland and then to Germany, where he ran aground on the EV Landshut and the SC Preussen Berlin. For the 1986/87 season, he spent two years in the British Hockey League ( BHL ), before returning to North America in 1988. Sims played for one year at the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League ( IHL ). He was also assistant to the then coach.
NHL player statistics
Career as a coach
1989 Sims finished his active career and took over the position as head coach in Fort Wayne. Sims reached four times the play-offs in the four seasons as head coach of the Komets. In 1992 he failed the team until the finals and in his last season 1993/94 he won the Turner Cup with the team. He then took a job as assistant coach at the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He continued in this position for three seasons until the end of season 1995 /96 apply. The following year, the San Jose Sharks took him as head coach under contract.
Sims was with the Sharks but not to the success he had with the Komets in the IHL, tie and lost the post with a record of 27 wins 47 losses and eight draws already back at the end of the season. From 1997 to 2000 Sims coached the Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League ( AHL ). This was followed by unsuccessful engagements as a head coach in the East Coast Hockey League and Central Hockey League. For the season 2007/ 08 he again took over the management of the Fort Wayne Comets and led the team in the seasons 2007/08 to 2009/ 10, three times in a row to win the Turner Cup. After the 2012/13 season ended Sims his coaching career.
NHL coach statistics
S = Wins; N = Losses; D = Draw; OTL = Overtime defeat