Kevin Dineen
Kevin William Dineen ( born October 28, 1963 in Quebec City, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( Right Wing ) and current coach, who from 1984 to 2003 for the Hartford Whalers, Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Hurricanes, Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets played in the National Hockey League.
Career
During his youth he studied at the University of Denver and played for their hockey team. In the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 it chose the Hartford Whalers in the third round as 56th out. Before joining the professional ice hockey he played one year with the Canadian national hockey team that participated at the end of the season at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
The 1984/85 season, he started in the AHL with the Binghamton Whalers and made with 15 goals in 25 games noticed. Soon brought him the Whalers to Hartford, where he was able to win right away. The Whalers were at that time a very young team and beside him stood with Ron Francis, Ray Ferraro and Sylvain Turgeon four players at the top of the scorers list of the teams in the 1985/86 season who were not older than 22 years. The young attacker brought the Whalers in the playoffs. Thanks to good performances he was also at the rendez- vous '87 series in the NHL squad selection. In the following two years he played in the NHL All-Star Game.
After 16 games in the season 1991 /92, the Whalers gave him in exchange for Murray Craven from the Philadelphia Flyers. Here his father Bill Dineen worked as a coach. From the 1993/94 season he was team captain in the team around the young star Eric Lindros.
Over the 1995/96 season he returned to the Hartford Whalers and was recognized as a leading player soon to Team Captain. With the Whalers, he then moved to 1997 and even played two seasons for the Carolina Hurricanes.
As a free agent he came to the 1999/2000 season to the Ottawa Senators. Since this did not protect him after the season for the NHL Expansion Draft 2000, took advantage of the Columbus Blue Jackets a chance and committed the veteran. As the oldest player in the squad of the new team, he played two seasons. At the beginning of the season 2002/ 03 he was still in the squad, but after four games, he announced his retirement.
His two brothers Gord and Peter played in the NHL.
From 2005 to 2011 he coached the Portland Pirates in the AHL. As early as 1985 and 1986, his father, Kevin Dineen won the 2006 Louis AR Pieri Award as the best coach in the league. On 1 June 2011, the Canadian was introduced as head coach of the Florida Panthers. He was released in November 2013 following a persistent downtrend and replaced by an interim solution Peter Horachek.
With the Canadian women's national team, he won the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games 2014.