Doug Houda
Douglas Harold Houda ( born June 3, 1966 in Blairmore, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active years from 1985 to 2003 among others for the Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, Los Angeles Kings, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders and played Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League.
Career
Doug Houda began his career as a hockey player with the Calgary Wranglers, where until 1985 he was active from 1982 in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1984, he was selected in the second round to 28th position of the Detroit Red Wings. After the defender one year at the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Adirondack Red Wings - the former farm team in the American Hockey League 's Detroit Red Wings - had played, he was inducted into the 1988/89 season in the professional cadres of the Red Wings. He played 57 games in the National Hockey League, where he scored 13 points scorer. In the following season, Doug Houda received more ice age and completed 73 NHL games in which he scored eleven points scorer. In the 1990/91 season he was after a few games at first for farm team, the Adirondack Red Wings shut off, and yet in the same season for the Hartford Whalers. There, he played the majority of games and belonged to the permanent staff.
1994 Houda was released to the Los Angeles Kings, where he played 54 games and was able to collect eight points scorer. After less than a year in Los Angeles, the management of the Kings sent the defender to the Buffalo Sabres. For the Sabres, he could not prevail, and after two years he moved to the New York Islanders. After 70 NHL games he graduated from there in the first season, he was awarded the following year less ice age and Houda was transferred to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. Since he lacked consistency, he was replaced in the following years several times between the teams. Neither the Detroit Red Wings still at the Buffalo Sabres, he found his form. Therefore Houda played in the last years of his career from 1999 to 2003 a majority with the Rochester Americans in the AHL, where he was one of the best players of the team and showed constant performance. After the end of the season 2002/ 03 he ended his active career.
From 2004 to 2006 Houda was for his former club, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League as an assistant coach working. Subsequently, he has since worked in the same position since 2006 for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.