ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by jkahn
ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: jkahn (---.client.comcast.net)
Date: May 10, 2004 09:34PM
A previous thread discussed ECAC players who had successful NHL careers. Watching the NHL playoffs, it occurred to me that four NHL coaches are former ECAC players, albeit all from current Hockey East schools. They are:
Ron Wilson (Sharks/ Providence)
John Tortorella (Lightning/ Maine)
Steve Stirling (Islanders/ BU)
Craig MacTavish (Oilers/ Lowell (then Div. II))
Mike Sullivan of the Bruins is also from BU, but he'd be after the split from the ECAC. I don't know if I'm missing any. And if we went to assistant coaches, we'd have Cornell's Brian McCutcheon with the Sabres.
Ron Wilson (Sharks/ Providence)
John Tortorella (Lightning/ Maine)
Steve Stirling (Islanders/ BU)
Craig MacTavish (Oilers/ Lowell (then Div. II))
Mike Sullivan of the Bruins is also from BU, but he'd be after the split from the ECAC. I don't know if I'm missing any. And if we went to assistant coaches, we'd have Cornell's Brian McCutcheon with the Sabres.
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Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: RichS (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: May 10, 2004 09:57PM
Don't forget the recently fired Jacques Martin who was a sieve at SLU in the early to mid 70s.
Among GMs...Clarkson's Dave Taylor at LA and the Icelanders' Milbury from Colgate.
Among GMs...Clarkson's Dave Taylor at LA and the Icelanders' Milbury from Colgate.
Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: Tub(a) (---.music.cornell.edu)
Date: May 10, 2004 09:58PM
[Q]RichS Wrote:
and the Icelanders' Milbury from Colgate.[/q]
I knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy
and the Icelanders' Milbury from Colgate.[/q]
I knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy
Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: billhoward (---.ziffdavis.com)
Date: May 10, 2004 10:50PM
[Q]RichS Wrote:
Don't forget the recently fired Jacques Martin who was a sieve at SLU in the early to mid 70s.
Among GMs...Clarkson's Dave Taylor at LA and the Icelanders' Milbury from Colgate.[/q]
I could swear there's at least one more ECAC player with a ranking role in hockey management. Goes back to the '60s, though. Ken, ah, Ken somebody.
Don't forget the recently fired Jacques Martin who was a sieve at SLU in the early to mid 70s.
Among GMs...Clarkson's Dave Taylor at LA and the Icelanders' Milbury from Colgate.[/q]
I could swear there's at least one more ECAC player with a ranking role in hockey management. Goes back to the '60s, though. Ken, ah, Ken somebody.
Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches [flops]
Posted by: billhoward (---.ziffdavis.com)
Date: May 10, 2004 10:55PM
There's a longer, sadder list of ECAC players who tried to manage and didn't make it. Ditto for coaches. And for coaches whose career topped out coaching in the ECAC. Where are Cornell's former coaches, for instance? What about the poor guys who were cannon fodder at Princeton (okay, Don Cahoon did just fine); where will Len Quesnelle be in five years? (Maybe still internal at Princeton.)
The pyramid is pretty steep.
The pyramid is pretty steep.
Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: adamw (---.benslm01.pa.comcast.net)
Date: May 11, 2004 12:54PM
The pyramid is steep for coaches and managers from any college conference, or anywhere at all, for that matter. The ECAC certainly is not sad.
ECAC folks are arguably more successful than anyone else. Here is a list from 4 years ago - which was not comprehensive then (Bill Torrey and Mike Keenan, SLU, are not listed, for example) - and is slightly outdated now - but may give a decent idea:
[www.uscho.com]
Others I can think of since then ... Ron Ryan, former Colby player and Colgate coach is the VP at the Flyers. ... Former BU coach Jack Kelley still works for the Penguins.
ECAC folks are arguably more successful than anyone else. Here is a list from 4 years ago - which was not comprehensive then (Bill Torrey and Mike Keenan, SLU, are not listed, for example) - and is slightly outdated now - but may give a decent idea:
[www.uscho.com]
Others I can think of since then ... Ron Ryan, former Colby player and Colgate coach is the VP at the Flyers. ... Former BU coach Jack Kelley still works for the Penguins.
Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: ursusminor (---.nrl.navy.mil)
Date: May 11, 2004 02:07PM
Former NHL coach Kevin Constantine was a goalie for RPI. Let's say that he left RPI under less than optimal conditions after his Junior year.
Re: ECAC Players / NHL Coaches
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: May 14, 2004 04:34PM
Then there's Lou Lamoriello. An asshole of a coach at Providence in the 70's, but a hell of GM with jersey.
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