Randy Hillier
Randy George Hillier ( born March 30, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active period from 1977 to 1993, including for the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Islanders and Buffalo Sabres National Hockey League has played.
Career
Randy Hillier began his career as a hockey player with the Sudbury Wolves, for by 1980 he was active from 1977 in the Junior League of the Ontario Hockey Association. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1980 in the fifth round as the 102nd overall player of the Boston Bruins. The 1980/81 season spent the first defender at Boston's farm team in Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League before he for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League was on the ice for three years. In the second year the Bruins franchise, he was also active for their new AHL farm team Erie Blades.
From 1984 to 1991 Hillier played for the Pittsburgh Penguins with whom he won the prestigious Stanley Cup in the 1990/91 season. In his second year with the Penguins, he was also parallel in eight games for their AHL farm team Baltimore Skipjacks on the ice. The 1991/92 season began, the Canadian with the New York Islanders in the NHL and finished it in their league rival Buffalo Sabres. In addition, he completed six games for the San Diego Gulls of the International Hockey League. His active career he ended following the 1992/93 season, he had spent at the Klagenfurt AC in the Austrian Hockey League.
In the season 1997 /98 and 2001 to 2006 Hillier was an assistant coach at his former team Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League.