Wayne Cashman
John Wayne Cashman ( * June 24, 1945 in Kingston, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( Right Wing ) and coaches who played from 1964 to 1983 for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.
Career
During his junior time Cashman played with Bobby Orr with the Oshawa Generals in the OHA. The Generals were a sponsored by the Boston Bruins junior team. Due to numerous injuries they picked him already with 19 years in the season 1964/65 for a game to the Bruins.
In 1966 sent him to the Bruins to their farm team, the Oklahoma City Blazers in the CPhl. In the 1967/68 season he came to twelve missions in the NHL. In the following year he started the season in the farm team. This time it was the Hershey Bears in the AHL. He soon returned to the Bruins and finally sat down by the NHL.
Together with Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge he stood in the first row of the storm Bruins. Here he was neither driven nor technically runs an above average player who erorme dedication and skill at the game in the corners of the attacking zone of the opponent made him such a valuable player. With the Bruins he won in season 1969/70 his first Stanley Cup. Two years later he was able to repeat this success with his team. He was also in the squad of NHL selection that could win at the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union. He contributed his two assignments with two assists. He had his personal best season in 1973/ 74. In the list of NHL scorer he was behind his teammate Esposito, Orr, and Hodge fourth. This season, he was also at the NHL All-Star Game on the ice.
After he returned to the squad after a serious operation in 1977, he was for six years captain of the Bruins. The last player who had already contested in the time of the Original Six game, he finished after the 1982/83 season his career as a player.
His former team-mate Phil Esposito, who as coach and general manager at New York Rangers worked in 1986, brought him as a scout in his staff. From the season 1987/88 he worked for five years as an assistant coach of the Rangers. It was followed by four years as an assistant to Terry Crisp in the Tampa Bay Lightning before he stood as an assistant to Al Sims behind the band of the San Jose Sharks.
As head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, he went into the 1997/98 season, but resigned after 61 games back into second place and was, as already in the Rangers, the assistant Roger Neilson. With Neilson, he left the Flyers and was head coach of the Pensacola Ice Pilots in the East Coast Hockey League ( ECHL ). After a year he returned to the NHL. His former team, the Boston Bruins took him on as an assistant coach. With interruptions, he worked there until 2006.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1970 and 1972
- NHL Second All-Star Team: 1974
- Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1974