Mike Keenan | |
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Keenan, seen here as the head coach of the NHL's Calgary Flames
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Born |
October 21, 1949 Bowmanville, ON, CAN |
Team | HC Kunlun Red Star |
Previous team(s) |
Peterborough Petes Rochester Americans Philadelphia Flyers Chicago Blackhawks New York Rangers St. Louis Blues Vancouver Canucks Boston Bruins Florida Panthers Calgary Flames Metallurg Magnitogorsk (KHL) |
Stanley Cup wins | 1994 |
Years as a coach | 1984–present |
Years as an NHL coach | 1984–2009 |
Michael Edward Keenan (born October 21, 1949) is a Canadian professional hockey coach of HC Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League. Previously, he served as head coach and/or General Manager with several NHL teams between 1984 and 2009. He has also worked as an analyst for the New York Rangers on MSG Network and as a hockey analyst for NBC Sports Network.
Keenan won a Stanley Cup championship as coach of the New York Rangers in 1994. He also won the KHL Championship while coaching Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2014.
His first coaching job was at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario, where he coached the varsity hockey team. In 1977 he became the coach of the Oshawa Legionaires of the Metro Junior B Hockey League, where he led them to back-to-back championships in 1979 and 1980. The following year he began his junior coaching career with the Peterborough Petes before moving on to the Rochester Americans, which he guided to the American Hockey League championship in 1983. He returned to University of Toronto to lead it to the CIAU title. He then landed his first high-profile job with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1984, then the Chicago Blackhawks in 1988. In 1993, he took the job as New York Rangers head coach, and led the franchise to its first Stanley Cup win since 1940. Prior to the 1993 season, he was also a candidate for the Detroit Red Wings head coaching job that eventually went to Scotty Bowman.