Pat Quinn (ice hockey)
John Brian Patrick Quinn ( born January 29, 1943 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach and general manager.
Career
Pat Quinn played at his time, among other things for the Vancouver Canucks and the Atlanta Flames as a defender in the National Hockey League. In 1977 he finished his playing career and was in the same year as assistant coach of the Philadelphia Flyers. This item has held the Canadians only a short time and visited after the Widener University. After graduating there he was head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers and led them into the 1979/80 season, in his first season, the Stanley Cup Finals, where they were subject to the New York Islanders. Quinn was honored for his performance with the Jack Adams Award for best coach.
Quinn's next coach station a few years later, the Los Angeles Kings were, where he remained until 1987. In the same year he became general manager of the Vancouver Canucks, where in 1991 he also took over as coach. The Canucks improved greatly, won the title in their division and brought Quinn as his second Jack Adams Award. In 1994, he led his team to the Stanley Cup final, but lost to the New York Rangers. After this success, Quinn gave up the post of coach and concentrated until 1998 on his duties as general manager. In the same year he became head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, he also within a season from the lower ranks of the League in the playoffs, in this case in the Conference Finals, led. Quinn was thus again a candidate for the Jack Adams Award, but this time was denied. As a reward for his good performance, he was appointed by the Leafs in addition to the general manager. Under him, the Leafs reached in recent years, each season, the playoffs, the Stanley Cup triumph in them but remained failed.
Quinn was chosen in 2002 to train the Canadian national team for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Under his leadership, the Canadians succeeded in what had been denied them since 1952: They defeated in the finals of the tournament, the U.S. and won an Olympic gold medal. Two years later, Quinn also the Team Canada to gold at the World Championship, the first for Canada for more than ten years.
Also at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin they trusted Quinn to the Canadian National Team. However, the Canadians eliminated in the quarter- final against Russia. Even with the Toronto Maple Leafs in NHL Quinn in 2006 had less success: the team did not reach the playoffs, after Quinn was dismissed.
In 2006 he was appointed coach of Team Canada for the 80th Spengler Cup. There he supervised a team that was made up of in Europe ( especially in Switzerland ) playing ice hockey players and players from the North American American Hockey League. With this same team he reached the finals where he was defeated, however, the host HC Davos. In September 2008, he was introduced as the new coach of Canada's U-20 national team, with which he in Ottawa won the world title in 2009. In May 2009, he returned as coach of the Edmonton Oilers back in the National Hockey League, however, occurred in June 2010 returned by this function.