John MacLean (ice hockey)
Harold John MacLean ( born November 20, 1964 in Oshawa, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. During his career he played for the New Jersey Devils, San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League. Since December 2011 he has worked as an assistant coach with the Carolina Hurricanes.
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Career
MacLean played with three years from 1981 to 1984 at the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League. After the 1983 General J. Ross Robertson Cup, and thus the championship of the OHL had won, the club reached the Memorial Cup finals. MacLean had with his 47 goals this season a considerable share of it, and it helped that he has already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 by the New Jersey Devils in the first round at the sixth position.
After the Canadians had not played in Oshawa and at the Junior World Cup in the 1983/84 season, he played 23 games for the Devils even in the NHL. There, the winger developed until the 1997/98 season into a regular fixture in the squad of the team from New Jersey. Twice MacLean was elected to the Executive of the NHL All-Star Game. He succeeded in the seasons 1988/89 and 1990 / 91st The 1991/92 season he missed after knee surgery completely and in the season 1994/95 he was able to win the prestigious Stanley Cup with the Devils. In addition, he holds several franchise records.
MacLean's time with the Devils ended in December 1997, when he was delivered by Ken Sutton for Dody Wood and Doug Bodger to the San Jose Sharks. However, he left the Sharks already at the end of the season because he signed a contract with the New York Rangers as a free agent. After a further change to the Dallas Stars in the 2000 /01 season MacLean played there until the end of the season. After this he got some time off and renewed his contract with the stars only in February 2002. He played only 20 games in the season and finished after the July 7, 2002 officially his career.
For the season 2002/ 03, on 29 September 2002 he was engaged by his former team, the New Jersey Devils, as assistant coach. He continued in that role until July 2009. During this time he won his second Stanley Cup in 2003 and was regarded in 2007 as a promising candidate for the vacant head coaching job of the Devils, the later but Brent Sutter received. After Sutter presented his items available in June 2009, MacLean was again in the role of the candidate to the post. When Jacques Lemaire was, however, have preferred him to MacLean was on 13 July 2009 for the head coach of the Lowell Devils, the former farm team of New Jersey. With these he achieved in the 2009 /10 first go to the playoffs, but failed in the first round in five games to the Worcester Sharks. On June 17, 2010, he was appointed head coach of the New Jersey Devils, after Lemaire resigned in May. After 33 games, he was released on 23 December, 2010 from his duties after the Devils had only nine games won. Early December 2011 MacLean was hired as an assistant coach with the Carolina Hurricanes.
Internationally
At international level, MacLean played for the first time at the Junior World Championships in 1984 for his home country of Canada. In seven tournament games, the striker contributed seven goals and an assist. In the end, the team finished fourth. For the senior team, he came only in the 1989 World Series for use. After ten tournament games were available for MacLean three goals, six assists and winning the silver medal to book.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Youth Championship 1984
- World Cup 1989
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )