Post by kbarbdamnit on May 16, 2007 14:02:43 GMT -5
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The Moncton Wildcats today announced the return of Danny Flynn to the organization, as Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations.
“I am very pleased to confirm that Danny Flynn has agreed to become our head coach,” Robert Irving said in making the announcement. “Danny Flynn is a proven winner who knows our organization and is committed to giving our fans another championship,” Mr. Irving said.
Flynn returns to Moncton after spending the past season as an assistant coach to Ted Nolan with the New York Islanders, who Sports Illustrated picked to finish dead last in the NHL, but a team that finished 16th overall and made the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. “I am thrilled to be rejoining the best run major junior organization in Canada and working hard to fulfill the dream of winning the Memorial Cup,” Flynn said. “I enjoyed my year in New York and thank that organization for everything,” Flynn said. “It was a great hockey experience and I am certainly a better coach because of it, however, I am an Atlantic Canadian at heart and coming home to coach the Moncton Wildcats is very special for me and my family,” Flynn said.
Flynn has been a mainstay on Nolan's coaching staff going back to their days with the Sault. Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the early 1990s. Together, Nolan and Flynn won three straight OHL championships and a Memorial Cup title with the Greyhounds. Before rejoining Nolan in Moncton for the 2005-2006season, where they led the team to the President’s Cup, Flynn was the head coach for St. Francis Xavier University for ten years where he rebuilt the program culminating in three national final appearances in four years and winning the University’s first national championship in 2004. In total, he recorded 177 career wins at St. F X making him the all-time winningest coach in the schools history and 17th overall in CIAU history.
Flynn also had the opportunity to coach internationally with Team Canada on five occasions, winning gold three times at the 1992 Under-18 Championship; the 1994 World Junior Championship; and the 1998 Spangler Cup. He also won bronze at the 1995 World Championship, a year which NHL players were not available.
Flynn worked for the Los Angeles Kings from 2000 to 2005 as a part-time scout, covering the college and junior ranks in Atlantic Canada. Flynn graduated from St. Francis Xavier University with a degree in Physical Education in 1979 and was a member of the school's 1978 Championship team.
The Dartmouth, NS native and his wife Elaine have two sons, Brad and Andrew
The Moncton Wildcats today announced the return of Danny Flynn to the organization, as Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations.
“I am very pleased to confirm that Danny Flynn has agreed to become our head coach,” Robert Irving said in making the announcement. “Danny Flynn is a proven winner who knows our organization and is committed to giving our fans another championship,” Mr. Irving said.
Flynn returns to Moncton after spending the past season as an assistant coach to Ted Nolan with the New York Islanders, who Sports Illustrated picked to finish dead last in the NHL, but a team that finished 16th overall and made the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. “I am thrilled to be rejoining the best run major junior organization in Canada and working hard to fulfill the dream of winning the Memorial Cup,” Flynn said. “I enjoyed my year in New York and thank that organization for everything,” Flynn said. “It was a great hockey experience and I am certainly a better coach because of it, however, I am an Atlantic Canadian at heart and coming home to coach the Moncton Wildcats is very special for me and my family,” Flynn said.
Flynn has been a mainstay on Nolan's coaching staff going back to their days with the Sault. Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the early 1990s. Together, Nolan and Flynn won three straight OHL championships and a Memorial Cup title with the Greyhounds. Before rejoining Nolan in Moncton for the 2005-2006season, where they led the team to the President’s Cup, Flynn was the head coach for St. Francis Xavier University for ten years where he rebuilt the program culminating in three national final appearances in four years and winning the University’s first national championship in 2004. In total, he recorded 177 career wins at St. F X making him the all-time winningest coach in the schools history and 17th overall in CIAU history.
Flynn also had the opportunity to coach internationally with Team Canada on five occasions, winning gold three times at the 1992 Under-18 Championship; the 1994 World Junior Championship; and the 1998 Spangler Cup. He also won bronze at the 1995 World Championship, a year which NHL players were not available.
Flynn worked for the Los Angeles Kings from 2000 to 2005 as a part-time scout, covering the college and junior ranks in Atlantic Canada. Flynn graduated from St. Francis Xavier University with a degree in Physical Education in 1979 and was a member of the school's 1978 Championship team.
The Dartmouth, NS native and his wife Elaine have two sons, Brad and Andrew