Brian Skrudland
Brian Skrudland ( born July 31, 1963 in Peace River, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, and the in its active period from 1980 to 2000, including for the Montreal Canadiens, Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers, New York Rangers Dallas Stars played in the National Hockey League. Since 2010 he is in the coaching staff of the Florida Panthers.
Career
Brian Skrudland began his career as a hockey player with the Saskatoon Blades, for to 1983 he was active from 1980 in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League. Then the attacker ever played a game time for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs and Sherbrooke Canadiens of the American Hockey League, where he won the Calder Cup with Sherbrooke in the 1984/85 season. The best player of the playoffs, he also received the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy. He then got a contract with the Montreal Canadiens, where he ran aground in the following eight years as a regular player in the National Hockey League. The season 1992/ 93 in Montreal won the Stanley Cup, he finished in their league rival Calgary Flames.
On 24 June 1993 Skrudland was selected in the NHL Expansion Draft by the newly formed Florida Panthers, where he stood in the following four seasons as team captain under contract. After he started the 1997/98 season with the New York Rangers, he moved to the Dallas Stars, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 1999. When the Texans the links Sagittarius ended after the season 1999/2000 at the age of 36 years his active career. From 2000 to 2003, the Canadians worked as an assistant coach for his former club Calgary Flames in the NHL.
Since 2010 Skrudland was responsible for player development of the coaching staff of the Florida Panthers, before, in the context of the dismissal of Kevin Dineen, in November 2013, took up the position of assistant coach.