Dave King

W. David King (b. December 22, 1947 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian hockey coach who has been head coach in the National Hockey League, the Russian Super League, the Winter Olympics, and the IIHF world junior championships.

King's first coaching job was as an assistant coach with the University of Saskatchewan in the 1972-73 season. He later coached the Billings Bighorns of the Western Hockey League and returned to Saskatchewan, winning three conference championships and being named 1980 Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union coach of the year. He led Saskatchewan to the CIAU national title in 1983. At the same time, he was the head coach of Canada's national junior team, and helped guide the team to a gold medal at the 1982 IIHF world junior championships and a bronze medal at the 1983 world junior championships. He was head coach of the Canadian national team at the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Winter Olympics, finishing fourth in 1984 and 1988, and winning a silver medal in 1992. He also coached the Canadian national team at five IIHF world championships. In 1987 he coached Canada to the gold medal in the Isvestia Cup tournament in Moscow, becoming the first Canadian team to defeat the Russian national team in Russia since the 1972 Summit Series.

King was hired by the Calgary Flames in 1992 and coached there until 1995. He was assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens from 1997 to 1999 and then became the first coach of the expansion Columbus Blue Jackets in their inaugural 2000-01 season through 2002-03.

Outside of the NHL, King coached Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Russian Super League and, as of 2006, is the head coach of the Swedish team Malmö Redhawks of the Swedish Elite League.

He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1992, was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1997 and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2001.

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I think I have decided that on Sundays I am going to just make it a day where I highlight what went on in the week...that way I don't really have to talk about much...I can just highlight it. I am lazy...I know this.

• Dave King is interested in the Columbus Blue Jackets General Manager Position. He was our Coach from 2000 - 2003 when he was fired. He has never been a General Manager in the NHL but according to a Blue Jackets Official, "He should have been a GM 10 years ago, but he wanted to keep coaching. Nobody knew the league better than Dave King and nobody had a better grip on the talent in Europe at the time. It would take him some time to get up to speed on the game -- he's been away for a few years now -- but he'd catch up quick." King was fired basically because he and MacLean got into over Klesla. King thought Klesla needed some time in the minors MacLean had other plans.
  
• Howson met with Priest and the owners and according to Portzline if things went well he could be hired this week. My take on Howson is any man who would have any part of the Ryan Smyth trade....I don't want. I don't want anyone who would trade away our heart and soul which in our case is Rick Nash. And, apparently I'm not the only one in Blue Jackets Nation to feel that way.
  
• Pascal Leclaire will be in Columbus later this month to test his knee. If things don't go well Columbus could be looking at getting a Veteran goaltender via unrestricted free-agency. Let's hope he looks like he did the whole season...like crap!
  
• On a non Columbus Blue Jackets note...congrats to the Anaheim Ducks, again for becoming the first West Coast team to win a Stanley Cup, and also congrats on winning for the first time in franchise history!!
• Also, on Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m. EST the NHL Awards show will be shown on VS I suggest everybody watch it. It should be entertaining. If you don't remember who was nominated I posted something on it so check it out.

If there is anything I missed I'm sorry...but that's all I have for now.