Kevin Dean (ice hockey)
Kevin Charles Dean ( born April 1, 1969 in Madison, Wisconsin ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active period from 1987 to 2002, including for the New Jersey Devils, Atlanta Thrashers, Dallas Stars and Chicago Blackhawks played in the National Hockey League. Since July 2011 he has been an assistant coach with the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League.
Career
Kevin Dean began his career as a hockey player in the team of the University of New Hampshire, where he was active in the game operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1987 to 1991. Even as a high school player, he had previously been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 in the fifth round, when a total of 86 players from the New Jersey Devils. From 1991 to 1994 the defender was exclusively for their farm teams in the ECHL and after their leagues change in the International Hockey League for the Utica Devils and Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League, as well as the Cincinnati Cyclones use. In the season 1994/95 he made his debut in the National Hockey League. In his rookie year, he immediately won the prestigious Stanley Cup with the New Jersey Devils. He also reached with New Jersey's AHL farm team Albany River Rats Calder Cup in the profit. In the AHL, he was also named team in the First All -Star. In the following four years he was a regular for the New Jersey Devils in the NHL on the ice, but still occasionally ran for Albany in the AHL on.
The 1999/2000 season began Dean at New Jersey's league rival Atlanta Thrashers. Already in December, but he was already transferred to the reigning Stanley Cup champion Dallas Stars. There, however, he did not even spent two months before he signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, where he had a regular place in the NHL team in the following year and a half. His last season in professional hockey spent the Americans in the 2001/ 02 season with the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL, where he scored five goals in 76 games and had 14 assists. Then he ended his active career at the age of 33 years.
Following his playing career Dean returned to the franchise of the New Jersey Devils and was a total of three years as an assistant coach for their AHL farm team Lowell Devils from 2007 to 2010. In the season 2010/11 he was head coach at the other farm team, the Trenton Devils of the ECHL. In July 2011, Dean was hired by the Providence Bruins of the AHL as an assistant coach.
Internationally
For the U.S., Dean participated in the World Youth Championship in 1988, and the A World Cup 1998 part.