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Role
  
Coach

Positions
  
Defenseman

Name
  
James Patrick

Career start
  
1983

Playing career
  
1983–2006

Weight
  
91 kg

National team
  
Height
  
1.88 m


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Born
  
June 14, 1963 (age 60) Winnipeg, MB, CAN (
1963-06-14
)

NHL Draft
  
9th overall, 1981New York Rangers

James Patrick (born June 14, 1963) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League (WHL).

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Playing career

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After a successful collegiate career at the University of North Dakota, Patrick represented Canada at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. After the Olympics, Patrick signed his first professional contract on March 5, 1984 with the New York Rangers, and made his NHL debut two days later in Minnesota. Patrick scored his first NHL goal on March 17, 1984, in Philadelphia. Patrick enjoyed ten productive seasons in New York before being traded to the Hartford Whalers and then to the Calgary Flames during the 1993–94 season.

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After several years in Calgary, Patrick signed with the Buffalo Sabres as a free agent after the 1997–98 season. Though he was chosen to play in the 1987 Canada Cup and many other international events, Patrick was never selected to the NHL All Star game. He ranks high among defencemen in both all times game played (1280) and total points (639). Patrick set a record (since broken) for career games played by a Team Canada player with 40 career games, breaking the previous record of 37 games in 2002. On September 8, 2005, Patrick announced his retirement from the NHL at the age of 42. He was immediately named to the Sabres' staff as a skill development coach. However, he left the team before the season to play in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga with the Frankfurt Lions.

Coaching career

Patrick joined the Buffalo Sabres as assistant coach in 2006. He made his debut as head coach in February 2012, when Lindy Ruff was incapable of coaching due to an injury. After Ruff was fired in February 2013, Patrick remained in Sabres' coaching staff until the end of the season and then was let go.

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After the 2013 season he re-joined Lindy Ruff as an assistant coach with the Dallas Stars. At the end of the 2016–17 regular season, Patrick was let go when the Stars elected not to renew Ruff's expiring contract, after the team missed the playoffs.

On June 6, 2017, it was announced that Patrick was named as the head coach for the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League (WHL).

Personal life

Patrick is half Ukrainian and half English. His father, Stephen (born as Stepan Patrebka), was the child of Ukrainian immigrants from the Lviv region, and played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Patrick is the brother of Steve and the uncle of Nolan Patrick.

Awards and honours

  • Canadian Tier II Player of Year (1981)
  • SJHL All-Star First Team (1981)
  • SJHL Championship (1981)
  • Centennial Cup First Team All-Star (1981)
  • Centennial Cup Championship (1981)
  • WCHA Freshman of the Year (1982)
  • NCAA Championship (1982)
  • Played in the World Junior Championships for Team Canada (1983)
  • Played in the World Championships for Team Canada (1983, 1987, 1989, 1998, & 2002)
  • Played in the Sarajevo Olympics for Team Canada (1984)
  • Played in the Canada Cup Tournament for Team Canada (1987)
  • “Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
  • Ranked No. 44 on the all-time list of New York Rangers in the book 100 Ranger Greats (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
  • References

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