Brian Hayward
Brian George Hayward ( born June 25, 1960 in Georgetown, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During his career he played for the Winnipeg Jets, Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.
Career
Hayward played for four years from 1978 to 1982 at Cornell University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In his last year he managed to appeal to the all-star team of the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
For the 1982/83 season the goalkeeper moved ungedraftet to the Winnipeg Jets in the NHL, but the first in their farm team, the Sherbrooke Jets of the American Hockey League, put him. Only in the season 1984/85 the Canadians managed the breakthrough and secured the position as first-choice goalkeeper in Winnipeg. With 33 wins this season in this year, he set a franchise record he shared until the move of the franchise to Phoenix with Bob Essensa. In the summer of 1986, Hayward was then transferred to the Montreal Canadiens, where he made over the next four years playing with Patrick Roy one of the most successful goalkeeper teams of NHL history. Together they won between 1987 and 1989 three times in a row, the William M. Jennings Trophy, with the goalkeepers will be awarded with the fewest goals against in the course of the season or. In November 1990, Hayward had to leave the Canadiens since he moved in exchange for Jayson More to the Minnesota North Stars. There he played only until May 1991 before the newly established San Jose Sharks chose him in the NHL Dispersal Draft. In the two years that played at the Hayward Nordkaliforniern, he came to only 25 missions, he drew upon a severe back injury in October 1991 during a match, which forced him to suspend large parts of the 1991/92 season. This time he bridged as a co- commentator for the TV and radio broadcasts of the Sharks. After a successful comeback he was injured in January 1993, again on the back, which finally compelled to end his career.
After the end of his career Hayward worked for two years from 1993 to 1995 under head coach Ron Wilson as assistant coach for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. In addition, he began to work as a sports commentator. So he analyzed, among others, the broadcasts of the NHL games on NBC and CBC, as well as the Hockey broadcasts of the Olympic Winter Games 2006. Currently stands at Hayward commentators team Anaheim Ducks.