GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Hockey
Canada announced today that former University of North Dakota standout
and current Phoenix Coyotes head coach Dave Tippett will serve as head
coach for Team Canada at the upcoming 2014 International Ice Hockey
Federation (IIHF) World Championship.
Tippett
recently completed his fifth season as head coach in Phoenix, where he
has led the club to three Stanley Cup playoff appearances and a pair of
40-win seasons. Tippett, the franchise leader in career coaching
victories, won the Jack Adams Trophy as NHL Coach of the Year in
2009-10. He
is 193-126-57 with Phoenix and is 464-282-122 in an 11-year NHL
coaching career that also includes a six-year stint as Dallas head
coach from 2002-03 to 2008-09.
His
ties to Hockey Canada run deep as both a player and coach. He twice
served as associate head coach at the World Championships, winning a
silver medal in 2009. As a player, Tippett spent two full seasons
(1983-84 and 1991-92) with the Canadian National Team as a player and
was also a two-time Olympian, captaining the 1984 team and winning
silver with the 1992 squad.
Tippett
spent the 1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons at North Dakota, leading the
Fighting Sioux to a national championship as a freshman. He scored 28
goals and added 59 assists for 87 points in 79 collegiate games and was
an All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Second Team
selection as a sophomore.
After
leaving UND, Tippett went on to enjoy an 11-year NHL playing career
that included stops in Hartford, Washington, Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia. He finished his NHL career with 262 points (93 goals, 169
assists) in 721 games.
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