Willie Desjardins ( born Willie Desjardins , February 11, 1957 , Climax, Saskatchewan , Canada ) - Canadian hockey coach.
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Player Career
Willie Desjardin begins his career as a hockey player in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League for the Moose Jeu Canucks hockey club and plays there from 1971 to 1974. And in the 1974/75 season, he plays for Moose Jayu Canucks and Swift Current Broncos. From 1975 to 1977, he plays for the Letbride Broncos in the Western Hockey League [1] . He later plays for the Saskatchewan Huskies at the University of Saskatchewan under the direction of Dave King . King recommends him to Alex Angelica, the head coach of the Wiesss Nijmegen club from the Netherlands Hockey League . There Willie becomes captain and in the very first year wins the title of champion of the Netherlands with the team [2] .
Career Coach
Willie Desjardin began his career as a coach in the University of Calgary in 1985 as an assistant coach and became the head coach in 1989 when he coached the Seibears in Japan. He then returned to Canada and became the head coach of Saskatoon Blades in the middle of the 1997/98 season. Then he was invited to work as an assistant to the head coach of the Canadian team .
Then Medicine Hat Tigers hires Desjardin as head coach. Desjardin with the tigers won the title of the champion of the Western Hockey League twice, and in the 2005/06 season also becomes the general manager of Medicine Hut Tigers . That same season, after the Medicine Hut Tigers lost in the third round of the Western Hockey League playoffs, Desjardin won the Dunk McCallum Memorial Trophy, a prize awarded annually to the best coach of the Western Hockey League .
In 2009, Willie, as an assistant head coach, won the youth world championship with the Canadian youth team . Then the head coach was Pat Quinn , and his assistants, like Willie Dejardin, were Guy Boucher and Dave Cameron [3] .
From 2010 to 2012, Desjardin was an assistant to the head coach of the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League , then he worked as the head coach of the farm club Starz in the AHL - Texas Stars [4] . On June 17, 2014, he led his team to their first Calder Cup .
June 23, 2014 Dejaren becomes the head coach of the NHL - Vancouver Canucks . Willie replaced in this position, John Tortorella , who was dismissed from his post as head coach after one season.
The regular season of the 2014/15 season , the Canucks, led by Desjardins, finished 2nd in their division, making it into the playoffs where they lost to the Calgary Flames in the first round in six games. In the next two seasons, “Vancouver” was unable to get into the playoffs, after which the management team sent Willy Dejardin to resign. [five]
On July 25, 2017, Willie Desjardin was appointed to the post of head coach of the Canadian team to participate in the hockey tournament at the 2018 Olympics . [6]
Coaching statistics
| League | Team | Year | Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||
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| AND | AT | P | H | FROM | Glasses | % points | Place in the division | Result | |||
| ZHL | Saskatoon Blades | 1997/98 | 39 | ten | 23 | 6 | - | 26 | 33 | 4th in East | First round defeat |
| Medicine Hat Tigers | 2002/03 | 72 | 29 | 34 | 2 | 7 | 67 | 46 | 3rd in Central | Defeat in the second round | |
| 2003/04 | 72 | 40 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 92 | 63 | 1st in Central | Winning season | ||
| 2004/05 | 72 | 45 | 21 | four | 2 | 96 | 67 | 1st in Central | Defeat in the second round | ||
| 2005/06 | 72 | 47 | sixteen | - | 9 | 103 | 71 | 1st in Central | Defeat in the third round | ||
| 2006/07 | 72 | 52 | 17 | - | 3 | 107 | 74 | 1st in Central | Winning season | ||
| 2007/08 | 72 | 43 | 22 | - | 7 | 93 | 64 | 3rd in Central | First round defeat | ||
| 2008/09 | 72 | 36 | 29 | - | 7 | 79 | 55 | 2nd in Central | Defeat in the second round | ||
| 2009/10 | 72 | 41 | 23 | - | eight | 90 | 62 | 3rd in Central | Defeat in the second round | ||
| AHL | Texas Stars | 2012/13 | 76 | 43 | 22 | - | eleven | 97 | 63 | 1st in the South | Defeat in the second round |
| 2013/14 | 76 | 48 | 18 | - | ten | 106 | 69 | 1st in the South | Calder Cup Victory | ||
| NHL | Vancouver Canucks | 2014/15 | 82 | 48 | 29 | - | five | 101 | 61 | 2nd in the Pacific | First round defeat |
| 2015/16 | 82 | 31 | 38 | - | 13 | 75 | 45 | 6th in the Pacific | did not participate | ||
| 2016/17 | 82 | thirty | 43 | - | 9 | 69 | 42 | 7th in the Pacific | did not participate | ||
| NHL total | 246 | 109 | 110 | - | 27 | 245 | 49 | - | - | ||
| In total in AHL | 152 | 91 | 40 | - | 21 | 203 | 66 | 2 wins in the division | 1 Calder Cup | ||
| In total in SHL | 615 | 343 | 205 | 21 | 46 | 753 | 61 | 4 victories in the division | 2 champion titles | ||
| Total | 812 | 460 | 261 | 21 | 70 | 1011 | 62 | 6 wins in the division | 3 champion titles | ||
Personal Life
Willie Desjardin has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work [7] . He is married and has three children [8] .
Notes
- Ie Willie Desjardins hockey Unrequired . hockeydb.com. The appeal date is October 29, 2014.
- ↑ Willie Desjardins coach Vancouver Canucks | AHOUD Devils Nijmegen (inaccessible link) . nijmegendevils.nl. Circulation date October 29, 2014. Archived October 23, 2014.
- ↑ 2009 Team Canada Roster . The appeal date is June 13, 2012.
- J Desjardins named coach in Texas . The appeal date is June 13, 2012.
- ↑ Willy Desjardin fired from Vancouver - media
- ↑ Desjardin will lead the Canadian national hockey team at the 2018 Olympics
- ↑ Canucks announce Willie Desjardins as 18th head coach in franchise history | (CKNW AM) AM980 Unc . cknw.com The appeal date is October 29, 2014.
- ↑ Willie Desjardins hired as a coach of Vancouver Canucks - NHL.com - News . nhl.com. The appeal date is October 29, 2014.