Ron Kennedy
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Ron Kennedy (May 7, 1953 - July 9, 2009) was a Canadian ice hockey player and trainer.
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[edit] Early life
He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
[edit] Career
Kennedy had played minor-league hockey in North America, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany and Austria before moving to coaching.
[edit] Coaching career
His last position was coaching for Innsbruck of the Austrian Hockey League.[1]
His coaching career included:
- Medicine Hat Tigers (Western Hockey League)
- Villach, Austria - won the Austrian championship in his first year (1992–1994)
- New York Islanders assistant coach
- EC Hannover, Eisbären Berlin and ERC Ingolstadt (Deutsche Eishockey Liga)
- Head coach of the Austrian national team (1996–2002)
- Villach, Austria (second time)
- Innsbruck (Austria) and Bolzano (Italy)
- Canadian national team coach for the 2006 Deutschland Cup
[edit] Death
Ron Kennedy resigned after his December 2008 diagnosis of brain cancer, from which he died, aged 56, in Klagenfurt, Austria.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Trauer um Ron Kennedy - ERC Ingolstadt
- ^ "Ron Kennedy's hockey statistics profile at hockeydb.com". hockeydb.com. 2008. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=7746. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
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