Red Berenson
Arthur Gordon "Red" Berenson ( born December 8, 1939 in Regina, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( center ) and coach, and from 1961 to 1978 for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues the Detroit Red Wings played in the National Hockey League.
Career
As a junior he played for the Regina Pats in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and in the Flin Flon Bombers in the WCJHL. He completed end 1958, the Belleville McFarland's, which took part as a Canadian team at the World Ice Hockey Championship in 1959 and won the gold medal. Berensen shone as a nine- time scorer.
Against the advice of the Montreal Canadiens, who had secured the rights to him, he moved in 1959 to the University of Michigan, where he played in the NCAA. There, too, he was one of the absolute Topscorern.
After the collage season he moved to the end of the 1961/62 season to the Canadiens and brought it in the remaining four games of the regular season and five games in the playoffs still on 3 goals. He was the first player who had made the leap from the American Collage League to the Canadiens. He belonged Next four years for the Canadiens squad. As the Canadiens, who were excellently staffed at the center position, among others, Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard and Ralph Backstrom, but he often played in one of the farm teams. Initially, at the Hull- Ottawa Canadiens in the EPHL, and later with the Quebec Aces in the AHL. In 1965 he won with Montreal the Stanley Cup.
For the season 1966/67, he moved to the New York Rangers, but the one and a half years there were disappointing and the Rangers gave him together with Barclay Plager from the St. Louis Blues. Here flourished Berensen on now and was, although when he moved almost 20 games were played, still the best scorer of the blues. His new coach, Scotty Bowman made the Red Baron for a working animal. He played in both special teams and was in every play between 35 and 40 minutes on the ice.
In the following 1967/68 season, he went to 82 points scorer. A particular highlight was his six goals he scored in a 8-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers and it could have been even more, because he met in this game four times the post. None of his goals in this game was a rebound or a Powerplaytor. The Blues reached as the strongest of the new expansion teams at the end of the 60's periodically the Stanley Cup Finals, but the representative of the Original Six teams each had an indomitable opponents. Towards the end of the 1970/71 season the Blues Garry Unger from Detroit wanted to get and gave it Berenson to the Detroit Red Wings from. In Detroit, he was a solid scorer and so came to appeal for the Canadian team at the Summit Series in 1972, where he played two games.
After four years, during the 1974/75 season, the Blues brought him back as head of their checking series. He fulfilled this role well and was able to score more than 20 goals in two seasons and was in his last season Team Captain. After the end of the season 1977/78 he ended his active career and was an assistant coach for the Blues.
After 18 months as assistant he took over the post of the head coach. After an outstanding 1980/81 season he won the Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the league. But as the team could not maintain the high level of the first season, he was released in 1982. Berenson was an assistant to his former coach, Scotty Bowman at the Buffalo Sabres. In 1984, he got the offer to coach his former university team at the University of Michigan. He left the NHL and works there as a coach to this day.
NHL stats
Awards and Records
- 6 goals in an away game ( November 7, 1968 8-0 at the Philadelphia Flyers )