Bill Dineen

William Patrick " Bill" Dineen ( born September 18, 1932 in Arvida, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( Right Wing ) and coaches who played from 1953 to 1958 for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. For his services in the American Hockey League, the Canadian was in 2014 honored with induction into the AHL Hall of Fame.

Career

Dineen played during his junior time at the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Ontario Hockey Association.

In the season 1953/54, he came with the Detroit Red Wings to his debut in the National Hockey League. In his first two years he was able to win with the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup. During the season 1957/58 he was discharged to the Chicago Blackhawks. There he finished the season, which was to be his last in the NHL. He played a further 13 years in the minor leagues. In the American Hockey League, he wore the shirt of the Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Barons, Rochester Americans and Quebec Aces before he moved to the Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey League in 1964. Until 1970 he remained there before moving within the league to the Denver Spurs. Where he served as player-coach Rudy Pilous and triggered from, who was his coach in Chicago.

Only as a coach he worked for the Houston Aeros. He was the first coach of the team that played in the World Hockey Association newly founded, and he remained in the six year history of the team and the only one. After the team was disbanded, he was responsible for in the last WHA season, the New England Whalers.

Four years later he took over the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, the Adirondack Red Wings in the AHL again a head coaching job. Six years he remained in Adirondack.

In the 1991/92 season, he broke Paul Holmgren from as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers. Besides Dineen even the Flyers also committed his youngest son, Kevin, who was to become the most successful sporting his sons. The eldest, Peter, was in Adirondack in his squad and brought it only 13 appearances in the NHL, the third of his sons, Gord, never played under his father and played 528 games in the NHL. After the Flyers in the 1992/93 season with the highly traded Eric Lindros in its first season failed to reach the playoffs, the Flyers management separated after only one year of Dineen.

NHL stats

Sporting successes

  • Stanley Cup: 1954 and 1955
  • Avco World Trophy: 1974 and 1975 (as coach )
  • Calder Cup: 1986 and 1989 (as coach )

Personal Awards

  • WHL Second All-Star Team: 1967
  • Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1954 and 1955
  • Howard Baldwin Trophy: 1977 and 1978
  • Louis A. R. Pieri Award: 1985 and 1986
  • Inclusion in the AHL Hall of Fame: 2014
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