Tom Watt
Thomas " Tom" Watt ( born June 17, 1935 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey coach, the Winnipeg Jets, Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs coached from 1982 to 1992.
Career
Watt is one of the few successful coaches who can not look back on a notable career as a player.
By 1980 he was at the University of Toronto beginning players later successful coach. Into the limelight he advanced as Canada's assistant coach at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. For the 1980/81 season, the Vancouver Canucks took him as an assistant of Harry Neale. A year later, he got the Winnipeg Jets in the 1981/82 season the place of the head coach. He succeeded in the first year with the Jets, the yield point to improve to 48 points. For this he was honored as best coach of the NHL with the Jack Adams Award. In the course of the next season ended his time in Winnipeg. At the Canada Cup 1984, he was on the coaching staff of the Canadian team.
From the 1985/86 season, he was back behind the boards of the Vancouver Canucks, this time as head coach. Also in 1987 he was again at the Canada Cup. After two years in Vancouver, he became an assistant to Terry Crisp to the Calgary Flames, with whom he could 1988/89 Stanley Cup win in season. His next stop was the Toronto Maple Leafs. After a year as an assistant, he took over the 1991/92 season the team as head coach. In the following years he coached the farm team of the Maple Leafs, the St. John 's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League.
In 1997 he was with the Sudbury Wolves, a junior team of the OHL. Then returned to the organization of the Calgary Flames and supported here too, the AHL farm team, the Saint John Flames.
In January 2001, he took his first job in the United States and worked in the area of player development with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. In summer 2005 he took over the Florida Panthers the task as a scout.
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1989 ( as assistant coach )
Personal Awards
- Jack Adams Award: 1982