Michel Therrien, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Michel Therrien

Canadian ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1963

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: ice hockey coach, ice hockey player

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Michel Therrien

  • Michel Therrien (born November 4, 1963) is a Canadian professional ice hockey assistant coach for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
  • Therrien formerly coached the Montreal Canadiens and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Prior to his coaching career, Therrien played professionally for three years as a defenceman in the American Hockey League (AHL), compiling a total of 86 points in 206 games and winning the Calder Cup in 1985 with the Sherbrooke Canadiens, on the same team as eventual Hockey Hall of Famer Patrick Roy.
  • When his playing career ended, Therrien worked for a time as a lineman for Bell Canada, with a sideline as a bodyguard for Quebec singing star Roch Voisine, with whom he had once played hockey, while working his way into a coaching career.Before coaching in the professional leagues, Therrien was a coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), first as an assistant with the Laval Titan and later as head coach for the Granby Prédateurs, with whom the club won the Memorial Cup in 1996, ending a 25-year championship drought in the tournament for a team from Quebec.
  • He is a single parent of two children, Elizabeth and Charles.

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