Jim Playfair
Jim Playfair ( May 22nd, 1964 in Fort St. James, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. Since June 2011 he has been an assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League. His older brother Larry was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Jim Playfair began his career as a hockey player in Canadian junior Western Hockey League in which he was active for the Portland Winter Hawks and Calgary Wranglers from 1981 to 1984. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 in the first round than a total of 20 players from the Edmonton Oilers. For this the defender was towards the end of the 1983/84 season his debut in the National Hockey League, where he scored one goal in two games and one prepared. However, could enforce the links contactors in the team from Alberta not know why he exclusively for their farm team, the Nova Scotia Oilers of the American Hockey League, was used in the following three seasons. On 31 July 1987 Playfair signed a contract as a free agent with the Chicago Blackhawks, where he further 19 games in the NHL denied in the following two seasons, in which he scored a goal and had three assists. Mainly, however, he ran in the International Hockey League for their farm team to Saginaw Hawks. From 1989 to 1992, the Canadians stood at Indianapolis Ice under contract by which he won the Turner Cup in the 1989/90 season.
Following his playing career Playfair took over the position as head coach for the Dayton Bombers of the East Coast Hockey League, which he was in charge from 1993 to 1996. It was followed by two seasons as an assistant coach with the Michigan K- Wings of the IHL before he was head coach from 2000 to 2003 at the Saint John Flames of the AHL. With the farm team of the Calgary Flames of the NHL he won in the 2000 /01 season the Calder Cup. During the season 2002/ 03 he was promoted to Assistzenztrainer the Calgary Flames after their head coach Al MacNeil had been sacked. During the season 2006/ 07 Playfair was responsible for the NHL team the Flames, had to go to the Erstrundenaus in the Stanley Cup playoffs but Mike Keenan soft. Nevertheless, he remained Calgary two years in the extended coaching staff worked before he got the position as head coach at Calgary's newly founded AHL farm team Abbotsford Heat for the season 2009/10. Playfair particularly noticed in the 0-4 defeat of his team against the Hamilton Bulldogs on March 27, 2010, when he overreacted after the exclusion of JD Watts, the referee abused, also smashed two hockey sticks his team to the gang and also be more jacket ripped from the body. In early April 2011, the media from leaking Playfair contract with Abbotsford Heat reported at end of season. In June 2011, he was obliged by the Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )