Charlie Huddy

Charles William " Charlie" Huddy ( born June 2, 1959 in Oshawa, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who from 1980 to 1996 for the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, Buffalo Sabres and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League played. Since July 2011 he has been assistant coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League under head coach Claude Noel.

Career

Huddy played during his junior time at the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League. After him, no team had considered in the Draft, the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League in 1979 committed him as a free agent. At first he played with the Houston Apollos in the Central Hockey League.

From the 1980/81 season he came into the NHL with the Oilers used. In the early years he commuted between NHL and CHL, where he now played for the Wichita Wind. From the 1982/83 season he had made ​​the final breakthrough. This season he reached with the Oilers, where numerous young stars such as Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey, Mark Messier and Grant Fuhr played for the first time the finals for the Stanley Cup. Still, they were subject to the New York Islanders. After he had played for Canada at the Canada Cup in 1984, followed by the first two Stanley Cups. By 1990, three more were to follow. Especially in the 1984/85 season he was able to contribute 17 assists in the final.

When NHL Expansion Draft 1991, he was selected by the Minnesota North Stars. However, this gave him a few days later at the Los Angeles Kings on. Huddy joined, among others, along with a draft pick for the Kings later Alexei Schitnik outdated. In return, Todd Elik came to Minnesota. In LA, Wayne Gretzky garnered numerous former colleagues from Edmonton around. The hope Stanley Cup but could not win. 1993 were the Montreal Canadiens in the finals of the way.

In February 1995, it was made ​​in the context of a larger exchange business to the Buffalo Sabres. Together with three other games in which Alexei Schitnik was well again, he was given, among other things for Philippe Boucher and Grant Fuhr. Just over a year later, his trip went to the St. Louis Blues on. He returned after the season to Buffalo and played one more game for the Sabres. Mostly he was inducted into the American Hockey League with the Rochester Americans.

After his playing career, he took over as coach at the Huntington Blizzard in the East Coast Hockey League. From 1998 he was an assistant coach with the New York Rangers. After two seasons there, he returned in 2000 to the Edmonton Oilers back. By 2009, he was active there as an assistant coach Craig MacTavish of. For the 2009/10 season Huddy was hired by the Dallas Stars as an assistant coach and was up in June 2011 in this position operates. On 15 July 2011 he was hired by the Winnipeg Jets as assistant coach.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

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