Joel Quenneville

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Joel Norman Quenneville (Born September 15, 1958 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and former head coach of the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues.

As a player, Quenneville was drafted 21st overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft. He has played for the OHA Windsor Spitfires, AHL New Brunswick Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies, New Jersey Devils, Hartford Whalers, AHL Baltimore Skipjacks, Washington Capitals and AHL St. John's Maple Leafs. He has also been a player/assistant coach for St. John's, head coach for the AHL Springfield Indians, and assistant coach for the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche. He won the Jack Adams Award with the Blues in the 1999-00 NHL season.

Quenneville won the Stanley Cup as an assistant coach in 1996. He then moved to the Blues franchise, becoming head coach midway through the next season after Mike Keenan was fired. He led St. Louis to 7 straight playoff berths. In Quenneville's 8th season with the Blues, the team started poorly. Late in the year, St. Louis was in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time in a quarter century. As a result, Quenneville was fired.

Quenneville was hired to coach the Avalanche in June 2004, before the 2004-05 NHL lockout resulted in the season's cancellation. In his first year with the Avalanche, he led the team to the playoffs and a first round upset of the Dallas Stars. On March 25, 2007, Quenneville coached his 750th career game. He became one of only seven currently active coaches to reach 750 games as of the 2006-07 season. Quenneville reached his 400th coach win on October 26, 2007 in a 3-2 OT win in Calgary against the Flames.^[1] On May 9, 2008, the Avalanche announced that Quenneville was leaving the organization.^[2]

Contents 1 Career statistics 1.1 Playing statistics 1.2 Coaching Statistics 1.3 Coaching Record 2 Notes and references 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Playing statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1975-76	Windsor Spitfires	OHA		66	15	33	48	61		-	-	-	-	-
1976-77	Windsor Spitfires	OHA		65	19	59	78	169		-	-	-	-	-
1977-78	Windsor Spitfires	OHA		66	27	76	103	114		-	-	-	-	-
1978-79	New Brunswick Hawks	AHL		16	1	10	11	10		-	-	-	-	-
1978-79	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		61	2	9	11	60		6	0	1	1	4
1979-80	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		32	1	4	5	24		-	-	-	-	-
1979-80	Colorado Rockies	NHL		35	5	7	12	26		-	-	-	-	-
1980-81	Colorado Rockies	NHL		71	10	24	34	86		-	-	-	-	-
1981-82	Colorado Rockies	NHL		64	5	10	15	55		-	-	-	-	-
1982-83	New Jersey Devils	NHL		74	5	12	17	46		-	-	-	-	-
1983-84	Hartford Whalers	NHL		80	5	8	13	95		-	-	-	-	-
1984-85	Hartford Whalers	NHL		79	6	16	22	96		-	-	-	-	-
1985-86	Hartford Whalers	NHL		71	5	20	25	83		10	0	2	2	12
1986-87	Hartford Whalers	NHL		37	3	7	10	24		6	0	0	0	0
1987-88	Hartford Whalers	NHL		77	1	8	9	44		6	0	2	2	2
1988-89	Hartford Whalers	NHL		69	4	7	11	32		4	0	3	3	4
1989-90	Hartford Whalers	NHL		4	1	4	5	34		-	-	-	-	-
1990-91	Baltimore Skipjacks	AHL		59	6	13	19	58		6	1	1	2	6
1990-91	Washington Capitals	NHL		9	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
1991-92	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		73	7	23	30	58		16	0	1	1	10
NHL Totals				803	54	136	190	705		32	0	8	8	22
AHL Totals				148	14	46	60	126		22	1	2	3	16
OHA Totals				197	61	168	229	344		-	-	-	-	-

[edit] Coaching Statistics

[edit] Coaching Record

Team	Year	Regular Season							Post Season
		G	W	L	T	OTL	Pts	Finish	Result
STL	1996-97	40	18	15	7	-	(83)	4th in Central	Lost in First Round
STL	1997-98	82	45	29	8	-	98	3rd in Central	Lost in Second Round
STL	1998-99	82	37	32	13	-	87	2nd in Central	Lost in Second Round
STL	1999-00	82	51	19	11	1	114	1st in Central	Lost in First Round
STL	2000-01	82	43	22	12	5	103	2nd in Central	Lost in Conf. Finals
STL	2001-02	82	43	27	8	4	98	2nd in Central	Lost in Second Round
STL	2002-03	82	41	24	11	6	99	2nd in Central	Lost in First Round
STL	2003-04	61	29	23	7	2	(91)	2nd in Central	(fired)
COL	2005-06	82	43	30	-	9	95	2nd in Northwest	Lost in Second Round
COL	2006-07	82	44	31	-	7	95	4th in Northwest	Missed Playoffs
COL	2007-08	82	44	31	-	7	95	2nd in Northwest	Lost in Second Round
Total		839	438	283	77	41

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] See also

• List of NHL head coaches
• List of NHL players

[edit] External links

• Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com
• Joel Quenneville's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Links to related articles Preceded by Jimmy Roberts Head Coaches of the St. Louis Blues 1996–2004 Succeeded by Mike Kitchen Preceded by Jacques Martin Winner of the Jack Adams Award 2000 Succeeded by Bill Barber Preceded by Tony Granato Head Coaches of the Colorado Avalanche 2004-2008 Succeeded by TBD v • d • e St. Louis Blues Head Coaches Patrick • Bowman • Arbour • Abel • McCreary • Talbot • Angotti • Young • Boivin • Francis • Plager • Berenson • Demers • Martin • Sutter • B. Plager • Berry • Keenan • Roberts • Quenneville • Kitchen • Murray v • d • e Colorado Avalanche Head Coaches Crawford • Hartley • Granato • Quenneville • Granato  v • d • e Current head coaches of the National Hockey League Eastern Conference Atlantic B. Sutter (New Jersey) T. Nolan (N.Y. Islanders) T. Renney (N.Y. Rangers) J. Stevens (Philadelphia) M. Therrien (Pittsburgh) Northeast C. Julien (Boston) L. Ruff (Buffalo) G. Carbonneau (Montreal) Vacancy (Ottawa) R. Wilson (Toronto) Southeast D. Waddell (Atlanta) P. Laviolette (Carolina) Vacancy (Florida) Vacancy (Tampa Bay) B. Boudreau (Washington) Western Conference Central D. Savard (Chicago) K. Hitchcock (Columbus) M. Babcock (Detroit) B. Trotz (Nashville) A. Murray (St. Louis) Northwest M. Keenan (Calgary) T. Granato (Colorado) C. MacTavish (Edmonton) J. Lemaire (Minnesota) A. Vigneault (Vancouver) Pacific R. Carlyle (Anaheim) D. Tippett (Dallas) Vacancy (Los Angeles) W. Gretzky (Phoenix) T. McLellan (San Jose)