Bob Hartley
| Bob Hartley | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 7, 1960 Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Stanley Cup wins | 1 (2000–01) |
| Years as a coach | 1990s–present |
| Years as an NHL coach | 1998–2007 2012–2016 |
Robert Hartley (born September 7, 1960) is a hockey coach who was most recently the head coach for the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League. He coached the Colorado Avalanche from 1998–2002, a period during which he won the Stanley Cup (2000–2001). He also coached the Atlanta Thrashers from the 2003–04 NHL season up until the beginning of the 2007–08 NHL season, when he was fired after the Thrashers got off to an 0–6 start. Hartley was enjoying a successful media career as a hockey analyst for the French-language RDS television channel, but in summer 2011 signed for the ZSC Lions, where he was the head coach in Zurich, Switzerland.
Hartley and his wife, Micheline, have one daughter, Kristine and one son, Steve.
Despite his anglophone-sounding name, Hartley is a Franco-Ontarian. French is his first language; his English has a marked French accent.
Bob Hartley never played a game in the National Hockey League, instead beginning his coaching career with a junior A team in his hometown of Hawkesbury. After guiding the team to a championship, his accolades caught the eye of the Laval Titan of the QMJHL. While Hartley was coaching the junior A Hawkesbury Hawks, he worked full-time as an assembly line worker at PPG Industries in Hawkesbury.
Hartley's tenure as the Laval Titan head coach was marked with success. He recorded an 81–52–7 record in two seasons with the team. In his second season as the team's head coach, he guided the team to a Memorial Cup participation in 1993.
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