Tim Hunter (ice hockey)
Tim Robert Hunter ( born September 10, 1960 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. During his career he played for the Calgary Flames, Quebec Nordiques, Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League for the position of right winger. Most recently, he was assistant coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson under.
Career
Hunter first played in 1977 in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League ( BCJHL ) before he moved to the Seattle Breakers for the 1978/79 season. After being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1979 in the third round to 54th position from the Atlanta Flames, he played up in the 1981/82 season into various lower leagues. Only in the course of the season, as the Flames from Atlanta had moved to Calgary, he ran the first time in two matches for the Calgary Flames and remained there until the end of 1991 / 92nd During his time in Calgary, he won with the team in 1989, the Stanley Cup, also he had in the 1984/85 season his most productive game year with 22 points in 71 games.
Through the NHL Expansion Draft 1992 due, the Canadians had to the Tampa Bay Lightning Switch, which transferred him only a day later the Quebec Nordiques. The Nordiques put the right winger in February of 1992/93 season on the waiver list, from where it chose the Vancouver Canucks, with whom he again reached the 1994 Stanley Cup final. There his contract ran out at the end of the season 1995/96 and Hunter signed as a free agent contract with the San Jose Sharks, where he played his final season. With a total of 3142 penalty minutes Hunter is the player with the eight most NHL history.
For the season 1997/98 Hunter began his career as an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals, where he worked under head coach Ron Wilson. After the end of the season 2001/ 02 Hunters contract was, as Wilson's, not extended. After Wilson on 5 December 2002 began a new engagement with the San Jose Sharks, Hunter was appointed on 6 December 2002 as assistant coach of the team. He worked there until 2008 mainly related to the attackers of the team, before Ron Wilson was fired at season's end. After Wilson had little later assumed the head coaching job of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Hunter were initially remained in the organization of the Sharks, the Maple Leafs pledged him in July 2008. In Toronto Hunter was in the following three seasons as an assistant coach Ron Wilson. In June 2011, announced the Leafs that he was not employed together with Keith Acton and replaced by the duo Greg Cronin and Scott Gordon.
Together with Rob Zettler, another assistant coach of Toronto, he received a certificate from the Positive Coaching Alliance, an organization that cares about sports as a character-building measure as the first professional sports coaches.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
As a player
( 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 )