Claude Julien (ice hockey)

Claude Julien ( born April 23, 1960 in Blind River, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defender and current head coach of the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.

  • 2.1 As a player
  • 2.2 As a coach

Career

Claude Julien began his career in 1977 in the Canadian Junior Football League OHA at the Oshawa Generals, where he only eleven times was used in his first year. During the 1978/79 season he moved within the League to the Windsor Spitfires where he could showcase his attacking prowess for the first time. In the season 1979/80 he scored 51 points in 68 games and moved the following season in the professional sector of the Port Huron Flags of the International Hockey League.

After he was able to build on its strong performance from the time in the juniors, it took the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League under contract and Julien played the following two years with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles, the CHL farm team of the Blues. In August 1983 he transferred the St. Louis Blues to the Quebec Nordiques. For them, he was allowed between 1984 and 1986 14 times on the ice, but otherwise he played mainly at farm team, the Fredericton Express of the American Hockey League.

During the 1987/88 season he moved to league rival Baltimore Skipjacks, before he went to the Halifax Citadel in the summer of 1988, where he played the best AHL season of his career with 60 points in 79 games. After another year in Halifax Julien left the AHL and moved to the Kansas City Blades in the IHL. But after a year he returned and played at the Moncton Hawks his last season and then finished his career.

1996 Julien returned back to the sport of ice hockey and took up the post as head coach of the Hull Olympiques of the Canadian Junior Football League LHJMQ. In his first season with the team he won the Coupe du Président and the Memorial Cup. There followed two unsuccessful seasons before he 1999/2000 led the team back to the playoffs.

In summer 2000, Claude Julien was as coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs, the AHL farm team of the Montreal Canadiens, obliged. The first season decided the Bulldogs indeed second to last place, but the following season the team increased significantly and she pulled one to the third round of the playoffs. During the 2002/ 03 season Julien had led the Bulldogs in 45 games to 33 wins, when he was promoted in January 2003 as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens. Without Julien the Bulldogs moved up into a Calder Cup final and although he had looked after the Bulldogs only 45 of the 80 league games, awarded him the AHL along with his successor Geoff Ward with the Louis AR Pieri Award as the best coach of the season.

The Montreal Canadiens led Julien 2003/ 04 to 41 wins and thus in the playoffs, but where they failed in the second round. After the playoff participation for half of the season 2005/ 06 was put at risk for the Canadiens, Julien was fired.

In the summer of 2006 he received a contract with the New Jersey Devils. But although he won 47 of 79 games with the team and the Devils thus led to the first place of the Atlantic Division and unchallenged playoff participation, Julien was fired just three games before the end of the regular season.

On 21 June 2007 Claude Julien was introduced as the new coach of the Boston Bruins. In his first season he led the Bruins to eighth place in the Eastern Conference. In the play-offs, the Bruins lost a tight series against the Montreal Canadiens. In the following year the Bruins won in the regular season, the Eastern Conference. For this performance, Julien was awarded the Jack Adams Award.

In the 2009/10 season with the Bruins Julien reached the sixth place in the standings of the Conference and thus the play-offs. In the Conference Semifinals, the team lost to a 3-0 lead against the Philadelphia Flyers with 3:4. In the following season the Bruins won their division and went in third place in the Conference play-off one. In the season 2010/11 he became the head coach of the Bruins their first Stanley Cup. He sat down with his Bruins in the finals against the Vancouver Canucks 4-3.

Coach stations

Awards and achievements

As a player

  • CHL Second All-Star Team in 1983
  • AHL Second All-Star Team in 1989

As a coach

  • Memorial Cup 1997
  • Coupe du Président 1997
  • Louis AR Pieri Award in 2003 (along with Geoff Ward)
  • Jack Adams Award 2009
  • Stanley Cup 2011
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