
Pat Quinn
Former NHL Coach & Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations for the Edmonton Oilers
As a long time head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pat Quinn is best known among hockey fans as one of the people responsible for bringing the team out of the doldrums and into NHL prominence in the late 1990s. Throughout his 16 seasons in the National Hockey League with Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto, Quinn has proven his ability to successfully navigate within the ultra-competitive world of professional hockey. Quinn is also renowned for his position as the Head Coach of Team Canada, the gold medal champions of the 2002 Olympic Games. Following his latest coaching stint for the Oilers, which ended in 2010, Quinn was appointed the Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations for the Edmonton team.
As a long time head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pat Quinn is best known among hockey fans as one of the people responsible for bringing the team out of the doldrums and into NHL prominence in the late 1990s. But after several sometimes-controversial stops as a coach around the league, the much-traveled Quinn has also developed a reputation for being a veteran of the big league NHL wars. He has proven his ability to successfully navigate within the ultra-competitive world of professional hockey.
The former Head Coach of the Leafs, and most recently, the Edmonton Oilers, Quinn is also renowned for his position as the Head Coach of Team Canada's gold medal-winning World Cup of Hockey team in September of 2004 and Team Canada's Men's Hockey team at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. It was Canada's first Olympic gold medal in Men's Hockey since 1952. Quinn was selected as Head Coach of Team Canada on November 8, 2000, and his success behind the bench also earned him the Head Coach position for the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. He completed six seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs as Head Coach and he was also the team’s General Manager for four of those seasons from 1999 - 2003. Following his latest coaching stint for the Oilers, which ended in 2010, Quinn was appointed the Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations for the Edmonton team.
During Quinn’s tenure as Head Coach, the Maple Leafs advanced at least as far as the second round of the National Hockey Playoffs five times and the Eastern Conference Final on two occasions. Quinn and Punch Imlach were the only Leafs to hold the head coach and general manager duties. As of the end of the 2002-2003 season, he ranked first in all-time winning percentage among Leaf Head Coaches with a .591 winning percentage.
A standout defenceman during his playing career, Quinn has coached 16 seasons in the National Hockey League with Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto.
Quinn’s coaching highlights include Stanley Cup Final appearances in 1980 with Philadelphia and in 1994 with Vancouver. He won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's Coach of the Year in 1991-92 with the Canucks and 1979-80 with the Flyers. Quinn, Scotty Bowman and Pat Burns are the only coaches in league history to win the Adams Award with two different teams. In addition, Quinn coached Team Canada to its fifth straight victory in the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2009.
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