Faceoff with Marc Habscheid
Apr 29, 2005 6:16:11 GMT -5
Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Apr 29, 2005 6:16:11 GMT -5
Faceoff with Marc Habscheid
By ERIC DUHATSCHEK
Thursday, April 28, 2005 Updated at 1:21 PM EST
FACEOFF WITH … is a regular feature on globeandmail.com in which hockey writer Eric Duhatschek exchanges views with a prominent member of the hockey community.
Today's guest: Marc Habscheid, coach of Canada's men's world championship hockey team. Last June, the 42-year-old Habscheid left the Memorial Cup champion Kelowna Rockets to sign a three-year contact with Hockey Canada to assume head coaching duties of Canada's national men's team at all international hockey events and provided him with an unspecified "role" on the coaching staff of the 2006 Winter Olympic team in Turin. Habscheid, a native of Swift Current, Sask., won the CHL and WHL coach of the year honors in 2002 and also won a silver medal as the 2003 world junior team coach. As a player, he won a gold medal with Canada's 1982 world junior team and represented played for Canada in the 1988 Winter Olympics and 1992 world championships. His 11-year NHL career included stops in Edmonton, Minnesota, Detroit and Calgary.
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By ERIC DUHATSCHEK
Thursday, April 28, 2005 Updated at 1:21 PM EST
FACEOFF WITH … is a regular feature on globeandmail.com in which hockey writer Eric Duhatschek exchanges views with a prominent member of the hockey community.
Today's guest: Marc Habscheid, coach of Canada's men's world championship hockey team. Last June, the 42-year-old Habscheid left the Memorial Cup champion Kelowna Rockets to sign a three-year contact with Hockey Canada to assume head coaching duties of Canada's national men's team at all international hockey events and provided him with an unspecified "role" on the coaching staff of the 2006 Winter Olympic team in Turin. Habscheid, a native of Swift Current, Sask., won the CHL and WHL coach of the year honors in 2002 and also won a silver medal as the 2003 world junior team coach. As a player, he won a gold medal with Canada's 1982 world junior team and represented played for Canada in the 1988 Winter Olympics and 1992 world championships. His 11-year NHL career included stops in Edmonton, Minnesota, Detroit and Calgary.
- tinyurl.com/bphwr