From his crushing hit on Bobby Orr to a gold medal in Salt Lake City, a look at some of the highlights of hockey legend Pat Quinn’s career.
1963: Quinn wins a Memorial Cup playing with the Edmonton Oil Kings.
1968-1969: Quinn plays his first season in the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs, recording two goals and seven assists in 40 games. In the 1969 playoffs, Quinn laid a crushing hit on Bobby Orr, knocking out the star defenceman.
1979-1980: In his first full season as an NHL coach, Quinn’s Flyers go 35 consecutive games without losing (before the league introduced overtime). The Flyers lose to the New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup Final. Quinn also wins his first Jack Adams Award as the league’s coach of the year.
1987: Quinn joins the Canucks as president and general manager. The team credits Quinn with a seven-player trade in 1991 that “marked the start of a steady climb in the team’s fortunes.”
1992: Quinn wins his second Jack Adams Award. The Canucks make the Stanley Cup Finals in 1994
1998-1999: Quinn joins the Toronto Maple Leafs, leading the team to the Eastern Conference Final that season. The Leafs made the Conference Final again in 2002. Quinn was fired after the team missed the playoffs in 2005-2006
2002: Quinn leads Canada’s men to gold at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Canada defeated the United States 5-2 in the final, ending a half-century gold medal-drought for the team.
2004: Team Canada wins the 2004 World Cup.
2006: Quinn returns as coach of the men’s Olympic team. Canada loses to Russia in the quarter-finals.
2009: With Quinn as coach, Canada posts a perfect record at the World Junior Championship in Ottawa, easily winning a fifth-consecutive gold medal.
-With files from the Canadian Press
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