Jim Wiley

Jim Thomas Wiley ( born April 28, 1950 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who played 1973-1977 for the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. During the 1995/96 season he took over on an interim basis for 57 games the post as head coach of the San Jose Sharks.

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Career as a player

Wiley, one center had, first played in lower leagues, as he moved in 1972 to the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League. After ansprechden achievements, he was taken by the Pittsburgh Penguins during the season as a free agent contract. Wiley played four games this season for the Penguins in the NHL, while prepared by one goal. For the Hershey Bears Wiley scored 75 points in 71 games. The 1973/74 season spent the Canadians at the Bears, for whom he played 47 games and won the Calder Cup, and the Penguins, with whom he was in 22 games on the ice. The ensuing season he ran for a game for the Vancouver Canucks after they had received him in 1974 by the Penguins. The rest of the season he spent with the Seattle Totems in the Central Hockey League ( CHL), with whom he won the championship. He himself was during the season best scorer in the league. Much of the 1975/76 season spent Wiley in the CHL with the Toledo Storm before the Vancouver Canucks brought him back for two games in the NHL. In the 1976/77 season he played for both Toledo and for the Canucks, where he set personal records in the categories NHL goals, assists and points. The seasons 1977/78, 1978/79 and 1979/80 was Wiley finish his career in Toledo.

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Career as a coach

After his career as a player from 1984 Wiley took the place behind the gang one. His first coaching position he took up in the Des Moines Buccaneers in the United States Hockey League ( USHL ). There Wiley remained for six years until 1990, head coach with rather average success. After a three year break the Canadians took over the position as head coach of the Kansas City Blades, the former farm team of the San Jose Sharks in the International Hockey League ( IHL ). Despite a positive record this season in the first year, the team failed to reach the playoffs, but succeeded in the following season, although the performance of the team was worse than last year. Ultimately you even reached the Turner Cup Finals, however, where they lost in the series with 0:4. The 1995/96 season Wiley first began with the blades. After the sacking of the then coach of the San Jose Sharks, Kevin Constantine, Wiley took over for the remaining 57 games of the NHL season as the interim coach the post behind the band at the Sharks. With a record of 17 wins with 37 defeats and three draws but Wiley could not recommend it for a long-term commitment as Sharks coach himself. For the 1996/97 season the Canadians took over the Kentucky Thoroughblades, the new farm team of San Jose in the AHL. In the two seasons that Wiley oversaw the team, he led it twice in the playoffs, but where you always failed in the first round. More coach stations of the Canadian were the Lexington Men O'War in the East Coast Hockey League during the 2002/03 season and the Memphis River Kings in the CHL during the 2003 /04 where he but after half of the season, lost his job as coach.

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S = Wins; N = Losses; D = Draw; OTL = Overtime defeat

Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds Lake Superior State University 1995–96 NHL season 1972–73 NHL season 1973–74 NHL season 1975–76 NHL season Toledo Walleye 1976–77 NHL season Farmteam International Hockey League (1945–2001) George Kingston (ice hockey) Al Sims Darryl Sutter Cap Raeder Todd McLellan Jack Ferreira Chuck Grillo Dean Lombardi Wayne Thomas (ice hockey)

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