Randy Carlyle
Randy Robert Carlyle ( born April 19, 1956 in Greater Sudbury, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defender and served as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League since March 2012.
- 2.1 coach stations
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Career as a player
Randy Carlyle began his career in 1973 in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL at the Sudbury Wolves. There he showed his qualities as a defender who can both points, as can also do the hard physical game. In his third year in Greater Sudbury, he collected 79 points in 60 games and 126 penalty minutes. In the NHL Amateur Draft 1976, he was eventually selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round to 30th position.
He moved immediately to the pros and played in his first season 45 games for the Maple Leafs, but also came for their farm team, the Dallas Black Hawks in the CHL, are used. The use in the Maple Leafs would be but was prevented by the Cincinnati Stingers almost out of the competition league WHA. Also in 1976, Carlyle was chosen by the Stingers in the WHA Amateur Draft in the first round at position seven, and he signed a contract with the team, but what he said no to the management of the Maple Leafs. The Stingers finally threatened Carlyle in an action for breach of contract, but the two teams were able to reach an agreement at the end and Carlyle remained in Toronto.
After only two years in Toronto Carlyle was transferred in June 1978 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Had he scored only 18 points in his first two years in Toronto, so he made in the 1978/79 season already 47 points and he became one of the best defenders this year. 1980/81 he managed with 83 points in 76 games, the best points haul of his career and was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the best defender in the NHL.
At the beginning of the season 1981/82 he was appointed captain of the Penguins and remained there until he was transferred on March 5, 1984, the Winnipeg Jets. His best year in Winnipeg, he had 1987/88 when he scored 59 points. He also installed with 210 penalty minutes a personal record. From 1989 to 1991 he led the team as captain on the ice, then played two more years for the Jets, before he ended his career in 1993.
NHL player statistics
Career as a coach and manager
Randy Carlyle remained after the end of his playing career, the organization of the Winnipeg Jets received and worked for the team as a radio commentator and a member of the PR department. In 1995 he was assistant coach of the Jets, but the following year moved to Phoenix and renamed the Phoenix Coyotes. Carlyle, however, remained in Winnipeg and was only a few months later, assistant coach of the Manitoba Moose of the International Hockey League. During the season, he took over the position as head coach and also was general manager of the team. After the 1998/99 season, the team finished with 47 wins in 82 games, he was appointed by the IHL to the General Manager of the Year.
In 2000 he gave the post from the General Manager. At the end of the 2000/01 season, the IHL was disbanded and the team moved to the American Hockey League. However, Carlyle heard in the summer of 2001 as manager of Manitoba, accompanied the team but as president of the franchise in the first AHL season.
In 2002, he broke away completely from the Manitoba Moose and was assistant coach for the Washington Capitals in the NHL and spent two years with the team, before returning to Winnipeg. In the 2004/05 season he coached again the Manitoba Moose and led them to the semi-finals to the Calder Cup.
In August 2005, Carlyle signed a contract as head coach of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the NHL. He led the team in the season 2005/ 06 in the final of the Western Conference with 43 wins and could, put up 98 points and 26 home wins in his first season as head coach new franchise records.
The team named in the summer of 2006 in Anaheim Ducks around and under Carlyle it counted in the 2006/07 season as one of the favorites to win the Stanley Cup. The Ducks were their billing as favorites and won the Stanley Cup in the final series against the Ottawa Senators. In the following years, the team was not for the Stanley Cup play along. After the Californians in the 2009/10 season after the lockout missed the finals for the first time, they managed a season later, thanks to an excellent final sprint to move into the playoffs. In this they failed in the first round against the Nashville Predators. In August 2011, the contract of Carlyle, who was limited to date at the end of season 2011/12, was extended until the end of the 2013/14 season. Early December 2011, Carlyle was replaced by Bruce Boudreau as head coach of the Ducks. Californians also dismissed together with Carlyle, the two assistant coaches Dave Farrish and Mike Foligno. On 2 March 2012, he finally found a new job as head coach of an NHL team, as the Toronto Maple Leafs after Ron Wilson's dismissal Carlyle committed.
Coach stations
Awards and achievements
As a player
As a coach
- 2007 NHL All-Star Game
- 2007 Stanley Cup win with the Anaheim Ducks