Scott Gordon
Scott M. Gordon ( born February 6, 1963 in Brockton, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender and current coach. Since June 2011 he has worked as an assistant coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle below.
Career
After Gordon had played three years for the Boston College Hockey, he began his professional career in 1986 in the American Hockey League, where he played until 1989 for various farm teams of the Quebec Nordiques, who had taken him ungedraftet under contract. Between 1989 and 1991, he completed 23 games in the NHL for the Nordiques. There, however, he could not prevail against the competition itself. He then went back to the AHL, where he brought it to a total of 150 games.
In 1992 he participated with the U.S. national team at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, arrived there, however, only a 17-minute short-term use.
Gordon coached from 2003 to 2008, the Providence Bruins in the AHL. After he was awarded by the 2007/ 08 season with the Louis AR Pieri Award for Best Coach of the Year, committed him in August 2008, the New York Islanders of the NHL. After the launch sporty unsatisfactory ran in the 2010/11 season and remained the Isles ten games without a win, he was released on November 15, 2010. Jack Capuano became his successor at the Islanders. At the World Cup in 2011 Gordon was as head coach of the United States behind the gang.
In June 2011 he was engaged by the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Greg Cronin as assistant coach, replacing the duo Keith Acton and Tim Hunter.