Graeme Townshend
Graeme Scott Townshend ( born October 23, 1965 in Kingston) is a former Jamaican hockey player and coach, who played in his time from 1985 to 1999 among others for the Boston Bruins, New York Islanders and Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League. Since 2008, he stands as a skating coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL under contract.
Career
Graeme Townshend, who immigrated with his family in the Canadian Toronto in the Province of Ontario at the age of four years, began his career as a hockey player in the team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for which he was active in the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1985 to 1989. He subsequently received as a free agent contract with the Boston Bruins, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1989/90 season was the first Jamaican. The majority of the season he spent but - as in the following season - at their farm team, the Maine Mariners of the American Hockey League. After two years, the attacker left the Bruins and also signed as a free agent with the New York Islanders, for which he also sporadically in the NHL came to missions until 1993 and instead ran aground for their AHL farm team. After Townshend had been no points in 14 games in the 1993/94 season, he left the NHL and played until 1997 in the International Hockey League for the Houston Aeros and the Utah Grizzlies. His active career ended the winger finally following the 1998/99 season at the Lake Charles Ice Pirates of the Western Professional Hockey League.
Immediately following his playing career took Townshend office as the head coach at the Macon Whoopee of the Central Hockey League, which he was in charge from 1999 to 2001. Then he signed a contract with the Greensboro Generals of the East Coast Hockey League, where he was still dismissed during the 2001/ 02 season. In the aftermath of the Jamaicans was held for four years on the coaching staff of the San Jose Sharks of the NHL, where he worked as a skating coach under Ron Wilson. In the same position he has been since September 9 at the 2008 Toronto Maple Leafs act where Wilson and his assistant Rob Zettler and Tim Hunter hinwechselten during the summer break, after they had been dismissed by the Nordkaliforniern.