Dennis Desrosiers

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Dennis Desrosiers
Born (1949-03-28) March 28, 1949 (age 74)
Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb)
Position Right wing
Shot Right
Played for EHL
Clinton Comets
IHL
Saginaw Gears
Flint Generals
AHL
New Haven Nighthawks
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 1970–1983

Dennis Desrosiers (born March 28, 1949) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. He played 13 professional seasons, mostly in the International Hockey League (IHL) where he played 532 games, scoring 312 goals and 277 points for 589 points, and earning 1690 penalty minutes. Following his retirement as a player, Desrosiers spent the next 18 seasons a head coach in the IHL, ECHL, UHL and OHL. He was then Saginaw Spirit's radio colour commentator from 2004-2012.

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Playing career

Desrosiers began his professional career in 1970 with the Clinton Comets of the Eastern Hockey League where he played two seasons before joining the Saginaw Gears of the International Hockey League (IHL) for their inaugural 1972-73 season. With the exception of 28 games played in the American Hockey League with the New Haven Nighthawks during the 1973–74 season, Desrosiers remained with the Gears until the 1981–82 season when he joined the Flint Generals, first as a player and then, beginning with the 1983–84 season, as Flint's head coach.

Coaching career

After two seasons as the head coach for the Flint Generals, Desrosiers was hired as the head coach for the Saginaw Generals starting with the 1985–86 season, leaving after two seasons to become the head coach for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the IHL. He continued as a head coach with the Birmingham Bulls (1996-2000) and the Kalamazoo Wings (2000-2002), before returning to Saginaw in 2002 to be named as the first head coach for the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League.

Broadcasting career

In 2004, after two seasons as the Spirit's head coach, Desrosiers joined the Saginaw Spirit radio broadcast team as the colour commentator, a position he held until 2012 when he left the team to relocate to North Carolina. [1] He returned in 2014 to the radio booth after a two-year absence. [2]

Awards and honours

In 2006, Desrosiers was inducted into the Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Dennis Desrosiers stepping down from Saginaw Spirit radio broadcast team | MLive.com
  2. ↑ "Dennis Desrosiers returns to Saginaw Spirit radio booth". August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dennis Desrosiers". Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
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