Biography
Bob Hartley understood that his vocation was to teach other people, but overcame a lot of barriers to the dream. Although Canadian repeatedly changed the team, he became famous as a talented hockey coach, able to bring players to victories.Childhood and youth
Bob Hartley was born on September 9, 1960 in the Canadian city of Hoxbury. From an early age, he has been playing football, hockey and baseball, but never thought about the work of the mentor. Bob dreamed of becoming a teacher, he was still engaged in high school with the mentally retarded children and prepared for admission to the university.
But celebrity plans were not destined to come true, because when he graduated from school, father died. It became a heavy blow to the family, which remained without a breadwinner. The young man was forced to abandon his studies at the university and take care of her mother and younger sister. He worked on a paper factory, continuing the case of the Father, and after her closure moved to the glass.
Hockey
Sunny celebrity became summer training camps for children in which he quenched thirst to teach. In his free time, Bob continued to play hockey, was a goalkeeper in an amateur team. He believed that he was satisfied with his life, because he had a stable job and a happy family, but one day everything changed.During the next shift in the summer camp, the old friend approached the star, who offered to try himself as a goalkeeper coach for the local junior team. Hartley agreed, but set the condition that he would continue to work at the factory and would not appear in training when the evening shift falls.
So the mentor began to study with the team "Hoxbury Hox", which at that time is hopelessly losing. It is not surprising that soon the players wished to see the star as the head coach, because only he performed well.
But Hartley agreed not immediately, and the club manager had to go to deception. He lied that he had already found a candidate for the place of the head coach, and Bob allegedly needs to replace him for a couple of weeks. Then the mentor managed to bring "Hoxbury Hawks" in the playoffs after an unsuccessful start, and he finally realized that coaching was a vocation.
Hartley left the factory and dedicated himself to learn others, as I once dreamed. Soon he attracted the attention of the representatives of the team "Laval Titan", which suggested the star of the mentor. For 2 seasons of work, he led the players to victory in the struggle for the presidential cup and brought them to the finals of the memorial Cup.
After that, Bob moved from the main Junior Hockey League Quebec to the American Hockey League. At first he was an assistant to the head coach of Cornwell Azes, and then headed the team. For some time, the mentor trained the "Heershi Baars", with which in 1997 won the Cup Cup.
Embed from getty imagesThe success of the celebrity did not go unlike the Colorado Evelish manager, who called him to the post of head coach. In 2001, the club's hockey players won the Stanley Cup, which became one of the most memorable moments in the biography of Canadian. But after that, the indicators worsened, and Hartley fired.
The mentor was not left without work, he was appointed assistant to the Chief Coach of Atlanta Tresherz, where I became acquainted with Ilya Kovalchuk. Although Bob briefly collaborated with the team, he retained friendly relations with Ilya and continued to follow the player's game career.
The next place of work of the celebrity was the club "Zurich Lyons", with whom he won the Switzerland championship. Canadian decided to return to the NHL, collaborated with Calgary Flames, but did not achieve noticeable results.
After dismissal, the mentor trained the Latvian national team and refused many contracts, but the call of Ilya Kovalchuk became convincing for him. He suggested a friend to consider the proposal of managers of the Russian team Avangard, the head coach of which he eventually became in May 2018. According to "Business. Online, celebrity salary amounted to 100 million rubles. in year.
Personal life
The personal life of celebrities has developed successfully, in his youth he married a woman named Mislin, who gave him the son of Steve and daughter Christina. Hartley is proud of her family and tries to spend every free minute with her, talking several times a day with little granddaughters on video call.
Bob Hartley now
2020 has become a heavy test for the coach, because the world turned out to be a coronavirus infection in a pandemic. The mentor decided to return to Canada, where he spent several weeks in self-insulation, without being able to see children and grandchildren. After weakening restrictions, he arrived in Russia to prepare Avangard for the 2020/2021 season.Embed from getty imagesNow the celebrity continues to make mentoring, the news about his successes fans will learn on the Hockey Club page in "Instagram", where video and photos are published.
Achievements
- 1990 - Champion of the Canadian Junior Hockey League
- 1991 - Champion of the Canadian Junior Hockey League
- 1993 - Presidential Cup owner
- 1993 - the champion of the main Junior Quebec League
- 1997 - Walker Cup owner
- 1997 - Champion AHL
- 2001 - Stanley Cup owner
- 2001 - Champion NHL
- 2012 - Champion of the Swiss National League
- 2015 - Award a better season coach in NHL "Jack Adams Eward"
- 2019 - Silver winner of the Russian Championship