We’d have the privilege of working with many NHL coaches over the years and that continued this past June at TCS Live in Ann Arbor.
André Tourigny has over 20 years of experience coaching junior and professional hockey and is currently the head coach of the Arizona Coyotes.
Tourigny, a product of Nicolet, Quebec, is a forward thinking coach, one helping smash hockey’s glass ceiling. He is not, admittedly, a patient man. He wants his players to play fast in all three zones. He understands the importance of defence, but doesn’t want to spend more time on it than is obligated.
That’s a message his players get behind.
“As a coach, I’m an offence first guy,” said Tourigny at TCS Live. “But I like to win even more than I like offence, and if you want to win, you have to be good defensively, you need to be structured and you need to know what you’re doing.”
In his 28-minute presentation, Tourigny, who previously worked as a head coach in the QMJHL & OHL before three seasons as an NHL assistant split between the Colorado Avalanche and Ottawa Senators, goes into detail on how everything his teams do defensively, is to create offence.
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André Tourigny
Tourigny has over 20 years of experience coaching junior and professional hockey. He will serve as the Canadian Head Coach at the upcoming U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and as an Assistant at the 2019-2020 WJCs. His first junior coaching stop would be with Shawinigan of the QMJHL, before joining the the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies as GM/Head Coach. In 11 seasons, he would set the QMJHL record for most games coached with one franchise and also take home the Ron Lapointe Coach of the Year Award in 2005. Tourigny would then make the jump to the NHL, spending several years as an Assistant with the Colorado Avalanche and Ottawa Senators. He would work his way back to junior hockey and the 67s, where he has been Head Coach and VP. of Hockey Operations for two seasons. Tourigny’s international resume also includes back to back Silver’s with Canada at the 2010 and 2011 World Junior Hockey Championships as an Assistant Coach.
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