Mark Johnson (ice hockey)

Mark Einar Johnson ( born September 22, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active period from 1975 to 1992, including for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, St.. Louis Blues and New jersey Devils played in the National Hockey League. Too great a reputation he came as a member of the U.S. national team, which was founded in 1980 Olympic champion. His father Bob was a well-known hockey coach.

2.1 as coach

Career

Mark Johnson grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, where he began his career as a hockey player in the team of Madison Memorial High School. After he had scored 65 goals for his high school team in the 1975/76 season in 30 games and added 56 templates, he was inducted into the Team USA for which he held until the end of season in eleven games eleven points scorer, including five goals, scored. Then he attended from 1976 to 1979 for three years, the University of Wisconsin- Madison, for their hockey team he played in parallel in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With the Wisconsin Badgers won the first center in 1977 the championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and then the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In addition, he was named Freshman of the Year of the WCHA. After he was able to convince with his university team, he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 in the fourth round as a total 66 players from the Pittsburgh Penguins and the WHA Amateur Draft in 1977 in the third round than a total of 22 players from the Birmingham Bulls. First, however, he visited another two years the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1978 and 1979, elected to the First All -Star team of the WCHA and the First All-American team in the Western Conference of the NCAA. In the 1978/79 season, he was also the best player in the WCHA.

The 1979/80 season began Johnson at Team USA, with whom he was preparing for the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. After the Olympic victory, which became known as the Miracle on Ice in the sports history, he signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League, for in 22 games, scoring five goals to end of season and gave seven assists. In the following two seasons, he regularly came to Pittsburgh in the NHL for use before it was issued on March 2, 1982 in exchange for a second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 at the Minnesota North Stars. In his native city he remained but only until the end of the 1981/82 season and scored for the North Stars in 14 games four goals and two assists. In October 1982 he was transferred along with Kent -Erik Andersson for Jordy Douglas and a fifth- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 1984, the Hartford Whalers. There he made his breakthrough when he 203 points scorer, 85 goals scored for the Whalers in 201 games. He also participated in the 2004 NHL All-Star Game. In February 1985, the Links shooter was released along with Greg Millen in exchange for Mike Luit and Jörgen Pettersson to the St. Louis Blues. From 1985 to 1990 Johnson was with the New Jersey Devils in the NHL under contract. For the season 1990/91 he went to Europe, where he was obliged by the HC Milano Saima from the Italian Serie A1. In this he also started the following season, but moved after only two games for EK Zell am See, for whom he in the 1991/92 season in the Austrian Hockey League in 33 games 72 scorer points, including 23 goals scored, before he ended his active career at the age of 35 years.

Internationally

For the U.S., Johnson participated in the World Championships 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1990 and some 1981, 1984 and 1987 at the Canada Cup. His international career was crowned by winning the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. For this success he contributed five goals and six assists in seven games in which he was top scorer of his team. In known as the Miracle on Ice has become the game against the Soviet national team, he scored two goals.

Awards and achievements

As coach

2007 WCHA champion with the University of Wisconsin -Madison
2007 WCHA Div. 1 Coach of the Year
2007 Silver medal at the World Championships
2010 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

NHL stats

Coaching career

For the 1995/96 season Johnson began his career as a hockey coach. This season he coached the Madison Monsters in the Colonial Hockey League, with whom he reached the first playoff round. In addition, he was honored this season as coach of the year. Subsequently, he was from 1996 to 2002 assistant coach at his former University of Wisconsin -Madison in the NCAA. At the World Championships in 2000 and 2002 he was responsible for each of the U.S. national team as assistant coach of the men.

Since 2002, Johnson oversees the women's team at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, with whom he in 2006 and 2007 champion of the WCHA and NCAA has been in years. During this period he was also appointed as coach of the year in each of the WCHA. The women's national team of the United States, he led in parallel at the 2007 World Championships and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver to win the silver medal. In addition, he worked for USA Hockey as a coach of various women's junior national teams.

1977 NHL Amateur Draft Bob Johnson (ice hockey, born 1931) Madison (Wisconsin) 1979–80 NHL season 1982 NHL Entry Draft 1981–82 NHL season Kent-Erik Andersson 1984 NHL Entry Draft 36th National Hockey League All-Star Game 1981 Canada Cup 1984 Canada Cup 1987 Canada Cup Lake Placid, New York Soviet Union national ice hockey team Most Valuable Player List of members of the IIHF Hall of Fame United States Hockey Hall of Fame 1995–96 Colonial Hockey League season 2002 IIHF World Championship

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