Joel Quenneville
Joel Norman Quenneville ( born September 15, 1958 in Windsor, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defender and current coach. He is currently the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.
- 2.1 NHL coach statistics
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Career as a player
Joel Quenneville began his career in 1975 in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL Windsor Spitfires at the. There he not only showed his skills in defense but also in attack. In the season 1977/78 he reached 103 points in 66 games. He was then selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL Amateur Draft 1978 in the second round at position 21.
Already in the 1978/79 season he came for the Maple Leafs in the NHL used and played for the team until the end of 1979, when he was transferred along with Lanny McDonald to the Colorado Rockies. The team had recorded but neither sporty nor financial success. Therefore, it moved in the summer of 1982 in New Jersey and New Jersey Devils named around.
After a season in New Jersey Quenneville was transferred among others for Mel Bridgman end of June 1983 to the Calgary Flames, but only a few days later sent him to a further transfer business to the Hartford Whalers.
In Hartford, he spent most of his career. Again and again he had to pause because of injuries and took over in 1988 during injury breaks the job as one of the radio commentators of the Whalers. Twice he was elected within the team 's most valuable defender and was from 1984 to 1989 Alternative captain of the Whalers.
In the fall of 1990 he sold the Whalers to the Washington Capitals, where he only played nine games and the rest of the season with the Baltimore Skipjacks, the AHL farm team the Capitals, graduated.
At the beginning of the 1991/92 season he returned to his roots as a professional hockey player and signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. However, this put him no more in the NHL. Instead, he played for their farm team in St. John's Maple Leafs of the AHL, where at the same time he also worked as an assistant coach.
In the summer of 1992, Quenneville finally ended his career as a player.
NHL player statistics
Career as a coach
But he remained the St. John 's Maple Leafs assistant coach received before 1993, he became head coach of the Springfield Indians in the AHL.
After a year in Springfield, he was hired in 1994 by the Quebec Nordiques NHL team as an assistant coach, where he was to work with the only 33-year head coach Marc Crawford. In the summer of 1995, the franchise was relocated to Denver and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. In the very first season in their new home, the team won the Stanley Cup.
In early 1997, dismissed the St. Louis Blues their head coach Jim Roberts, as the playoff attendance was at risk. Then they asked Quenneville to the post, which was cleared by the Colorado Avalanche and thus for the first time allowed the main responsibility to train an NHL team. He managed the team actually still qualify for the playoffs, but failed in the first round later in the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings.
In St. Louis he built over the years on a strong team that finished the regular 1999/2000 season as the best team in the league and thus set a franchise record. Star defender Chris Pronger was awarded most valuable player and best defender in the NHL, goalkeeper Roman Turek had the fewest goals conceded and Pavol Demitra was honored as the fairest player. Quenneville even won the Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the NHL. However, the team already was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
For the city of Denver Quenneville had a special relationship, he had played for the Colorado Rockies and won as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup. 2001, the City should be twice the focal point for him. In January 2001, he was the head coach of the North American selection in the NHL All-Star Game, which took place in Denver. In the playoffs, the Blues beat better than last year this season and went to the finals of the Western Conference, where they failed just to the Colorado Avalanche, which then changed its second Stanley Cup win.
In the seasons 2001/ 02 and 2002 /03, the Blues brought constant performance, but could not achieve much in the playoffs. During the 2003/ 04 season, the team began to falter slightly, prompting Quenneville was fired.
But few months later he was back in business, and he returned to Denver, where he took up the post as head coach of the Colorado Avalanche. He could not immediately start to work but as the season was canceled in 2004/05 because of the lockout.
The 2005/06 season was a little problematic, but in the end, the team has yet to qualify for the playoffs. With the 2006/07 season with the Avalanche Quenneville reached a low point when they missed the playoffs for the first time. The following year they returned to the playoffs while back, but after a significant defeats in the second round Quenneville was finally released.
In September 2008, he signed on as a scout for the Chicago Black Hawks, but took only a month later as coach Denis Savard of who won only one of the first four season games with the Blackhawks. With Chicago, he won in the 2009/ 10 financial year as head coach of the Stanley Cup.
NHL coach statistics
Status: End of Season 2009/10
S = Wins; N = Losses; D = Draw; OTL = Overtime Loss ( defeat in extension )
Awards and achievements
As a player
- AHL Second All-Star Team in 1992
As a coach
- Stanley Cup 1996 ( as assistant coach of the Colorado Avalanche ); 2010, 2013 ( as head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks )
- Presidents' Trophy 2000
- Jack Adams Award 2000