Steve Stirling
Steve Stirling ( born November 9, 1949 in Clarkson, Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach, who is since 2010 at the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League as an assistant coach behind the gang. Prior to his coaching career, he was active as a player in North America and Europe.
Career as a player
Steve Stirling began his career in 1968 at Boston University, where he played as a center. In his third year he was top scorer of his team and led it as a captain to win the NCAA championship.
From the 1971/72 season he played three years for the Boston Braves in the AHL before the team disbanded. He spent the next two seasons with the Rochester Americans in the AHL and the Broome Dusters in the NAHL. In the 1976/77 season Stirling was active for the EV Vienna in Austria and played at the end of season three play-off games for Rochester. Then he ended his playing career.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
Career as a coach
Steve Stirling's first coach stop was the university team of Babson College, which he coached from 1978 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1993. From 1983 to 1985 he was coach of the team, Providence College, with which he masters of Hockey East was in his second year and in the final of the NCAA championship lost to Rensselaer.
After five year break, he was in the 1998/99 season assistant coach of the Lowell Lock Monsters, where he stayed for three years. In the 2001 /02 season he coached the Bridgeport Sound Tigers and was thus the first head coach of a professional team. In his first year he reached the finals of the Calder Cup and was named him before the New York Islanders of the NHL to their new coach yet another year in the AHL. His team reached the play-offs, but was defeated by eventual Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning in five games in the Conference Quarterfinals. After the season was 2004/ 05 canceled due to the lockout, Stirling was the 2005/06 season again in Long Iceland behind the gang. Here he was, however, released in January 2006, so his time was finished in the best hockey league in the world. The next year he was coach of the Springfield Falcons in the AHL and then moved to the Norfolk Admirals. Here he experienced a disappointing season, the worst result was at the end in the history of the admiral. After the club only offered him a job as a scout, he opted for a move to Europe.
He signed a two-year contract with the Iserlohn Roosters of the DEL and became the successor of Rick Adduono, with whom he played 1975-1977 in a team. In Sauerland he was suspended after 44 games, so he was no longer working as head coach of the Roosters. After the Canadians worked in the 2009/10 season as head coach of the SHC Fassa from the series A1, he took over the following season the role of assistant coach for the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League.
Club Record
Others
In 1976, the film Slap Shot in Johnstown, Pennsylvania was shot, the producers selected some real hockey players to the fictional team of " Charlestown Chiefs " display. Here, the choice fell on some players the Broome Dusters of Binghamton, including Stirling, so that it is seen in the film for a few seconds, when Paul Newman delivers a fight with the opposing goalkeeper.