Paul Gardner (ice hockey)
Paul Malone Gardner ( born March 5, 1956 in Fort Erie, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, which is since 2013 at the Tilburg Trappers in the Eredivisie under contract. His father, Cal and his brother Dave were also professional hockey players.
Career
As a player
Paul Gardner began his career as a hockey player with the Oshawa Generals, for which he was active from 1974 to 1976 in the Ontario Hockey Association. Subsequently, he was selected first in the WHA Amateur Draft in 1976 in the second round as a whole as 24 players from the Toronto Toros, and then in the NHL Amateur Draft 1976 in the first round of the eleventh players from the Kansas City Scouts. Thereafter, the Colorado Rockies, the successor team of the Kansas City Scouts, the attacker took him under contract, for which he played in the National Hockey League from 1976 to 1979. Then Gardner was a year for their league rivals, the Toronto Maple Leafs, and four years for the Pittsburgh Penguins under contract. In the 1984/85 season the Canadians for the Washington Capitals in the NHL was active, but played most of the season for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Binghamton Whalers. In the season 1986/87 the Centre his NHL career ended with the Buffalo Sabres. He also played for their AHL farm team, the Rochester Americans.
As a coach
After Gardner was from 1986 to 1990 as head coach at the Newmarket Saints of the American Hockey League contract, he then worked in their league rivals in the 1992/93 season with the Baltimore Skipjacks, and from 1993 to 1997 at its successor team, the Portland Pirates, for whom he ran aground again in the AHL in the 1996/97 season. In 1994, Gardner also played in five games in which he scored seven points scorer, for the New England Stingers from the Roller Hockey International.
From 1998 to 2003, the Canadian was an assistant coach for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League before he was employed in the following two years as chief scout for the Predators. After the former NHL players in the 2007/08 season coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl had been in the Russian Super League, he took over on 18 December 2008 by Bill Stewart office as head coach for the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. From December 2010, Gardner was at the Mississippi RiverKings of the Central Hockey League to the gang and solved there Kevin Kaminski as head coach from. For 2011/ 12, the Bloomington Blaze him engaged in the same function. In January 2013 he released Jordan Krestanovich Braehead Clan in the Elite Ice Hockey League from the head coach from.
For the 2013/14 season of Canadians has been committed by the Tilburg Trappers of the Eredivisie as head coach.