Bob Gainey

Robert Michael " Bob" Gainey ( born December 13, 1953 in Peterborough, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who played from 1973 to 1989 for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. From summer 2003 until February 2010, he was general manager of the Montreal Canadiens.

Career

Player

As a junior he played with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey Association. The Montreal Canadiens picked him up at the NHL Amateur Draft 1973 in the first round than eights. Gainey, a proven defensive striker won the Selke Trophy introduced in 1978 Frank J. for the best defensive attacker four times in a row. No other player in the NHL was so able, without making even a point to turn an entire game. His strength was to neutralize the opponent's playmaker. After he had won from 1976 to 1979 four consecutive Stanley Cup, he was allowed to run in 1986 as captain of the Canadiens for his fifth title. From 1981 to 1989, he was wearing the C on the chest and only Jean Béliveau was longer captain of the Canadiens.

He was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992 and on 23 February 2008, the Montreal Canadiens are his jersey number 23 hanging as a banner to the hall ceiling of the Centre Bell, which is thus given to any player of the franchise more.

Bob Gainey was also active for the Canadian national hockey team. He denied the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1982 and 1983 as well as the Canada Cup in 1976 and 1981. Finally, he played with the NHL All-Stars in the Challenge Cup in 1979 against the Soviet national ice hockey team.

Coaches and managers

Directly after end of his career he moved to France and began his coaching career there. After a year he returned to North America and took his first coaching job in the NHL with the Minnesota North Stars and made it in his first year in the Stanley Cup finals. He moved with the team to Dallas and brought it to five and a half years behind the band of stars. Parallel to this, he worked from 1992 to 2002 as general manager of the team. During his tenure as GM, the stars were the 1999 Stanley Cup win. In 1998 he was jointly responsible for the nomination of the squad of the Canadian national team for the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano.

In 2003 he took over the Montreal Canadiens the job of General Manager. In January 2006, he sent Claude Julien as coach and took over as coach for the remainder of the season. Guy Carbonneau worked at the time as Gaineys assistant coach and was in the summer of the job as head coach.

Private

On June 21, died in 1995 Gaineys wife Cathy, who had fought five years against a brain tumor. He and his wife had four children Anna, Coleen, Steve and Laura. Mid-December 2006 verscholl his 25 - year-old daughter Laura, who, Massachusetts, has been in stormy weather geschwämmt by a wave from the deck of a ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 700 miles off Cape Cod. Laura Gainey had been working on the three-master. After three days presented the Coast Guard a their search because they could not be found. Bob Gainey put temporarily resigns as GM of the Montreal Canadiens.

NHL stats

Awards and achievements

  • Winning the Stanley Cup: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1986
  • 1982 bronze medal at the World Championships
  • 1983 bronze medal at the World Championships
  • Conn Smythe Trophy winning the: 1979
  • Frank J. Selke Trophy winning the: 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981
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