Drake Berehowsky

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Drake Berehowsky
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Berehowsky with the San Antonio Rampage in 2005
Born (1972-01-03) January 3, 1972 (age 52)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight 211 lb (96 kg; 15 st 1 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Right
Played for Toronto Maple Leafs
Pittsburgh Penguins
Edmonton Oilers
Nashville Predators
Vancouver Canucks
Phoenix Coyotes
NHL draft 10th overall, 1990
Toronto Maple Leafs
Playing career 1990–2006

Drake Berehowsky (born January 3, 1972) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is best known for his time in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks and Phoenix Coyotes.

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He is the former head coach of the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL. He had two stints as the team's head coach, first coaching the Solar Bears during the 2012–13 season. [1] Following the 2021-22 season, the Solar Bears and Berehowsky mutually agreed to part ways.

Playing career

As a youth, Berehowsky played in the 1985 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Marlboros minor ice hockey team. [2]

Berehowsky began his junior hockey career with the Kingston Raiders of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 1988 and had a strong rookie season, earning 46 points in 63 games. The Raiders were renamed the "Kingston Frontenacs" in 1989–90. Berehowsky only appeared in nine games as he suffered a serious knee injury. He earned 14 points in those nine games and the Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Berehowsky with their first round draft pick in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. Berehowsky split the 1990–91 season between the Frontenacs and the North Bay Centennials before earning a late season call-up to the Leafs. He returned to North Bay for the 1991–92 season, recording 82 points in 62 games, helping the Centennials to the OHL finals, tallying 31 points in 21 post-season games. Berehowsky earned another late season call-up to Toronto, appearing in a single game, before being sent to the St. John's Maple Leafs for the 1992 American Hockey League (AHL) playoffs, where he recorded five assists in six games.[ citation needed ]

Berehowsky split the 1992–93 and 1993–94 seasons between St. John's and Toronto before earning a full-time roster spot in Toronto in the 1994–95 season. Berehowsky appeared in 25 games with the Maple Leafs in 1994–95. On April 7, 1995, the team traded him to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Grant Jennings. Berehowsky finished the season as the odd man out on the Penguins' defense, as he appeared in only four regular season games and one playoff game with the team. In 1995–96, Pittsburgh sent Berehowsky to the Cleveland Lumberjacks, their AHL affiliate, for most of the season and he only appeared in one game with the Penguins. After the season, Berehowsky became a free agent.[ citation needed ]

He split the 1996–97 season between the Carolina Monarchs of the AHL and the San Antonio Dragons of the International Hockey League until signing an NHL contract with the Edmonton Oilers on September 30, 1997. Berehowsky spent most of the season with the Oilers, appearing in 67 regular season and 12 post-season games with the club. However, he did spend some time with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL, playing in eight games.[ citation needed ]

On October 1, 1998, the Oilers traded Berehowsky, Éric Fichaud and Greg de Vries to the Nashville Predators for Mikhail Shtalenkov and Jim Dowd. Berehowsky played with the Predators until 2001, having a career season in 1999–2000 when he scored 12 goals and 32 points, leading the Nashville defense in goals. On March 9, 2001, the Predators dealt Berehowsky to the Vancouver Canucks.[ citation needed ]

Berehowsky's time with the Canucks was short, as he was once again traded, on December 28, 2001, with Denis Pederson, to the Phoenix Coyotes for Todd Warriner, Trevor Letowski and Tyler Bouck. Berehowsky spent regular time on the Coyotes' blueline, helping them to the post-season. An injury suffered in training camp sidelined Berehowsky for most of the 2002–03 season, and he only appeared in seven games with Phoenix, and two with the Springfield Falcons of the AHL before becoming a free agent at the end of the season.[ citation needed ]

On August 29, 2003, he signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he had played from 1994 to 1996. Berehowsky played in 47 more games with the Penguins. On February 11, 2004, the Penguins traded Berehowsky to his original NHL team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, for Ric Jackman, where he finished out the season.[ citation needed ]

With the NHL in a lockout for the 2004–05 season, Berehowsky signed with Skellefteå AIK in Sweden for the season, before signing a contract with Eisbären Berlin in Germany for the 2005–06 season. After the season with Berlin, Berehowsky returned to North America, where he signed with the San Antonio Rampage of the AHL, before retiring from hockey in the summer of 2006.[ citation needed ]

Coaching career

After his NHL career, Berehowsky served as an assistant coach with the Peoria Rivermen of the AHL for three seasons. On June 19, 2012, Berehowsky was named head coach of the Orlando Solar Bears for their inaugural season in the ECHL. [3] In the 2012–13 season, Berehowsky lead the expansion team to a record of 28 wins, 37 losses, 3 overtime losses, and 4 shootout losses totaling 63 points; second to last place in the 14-team Eastern Conference, with only three teams finishing with fewer points in the 23-team league. [4] [5]

Global Lethbridge's Paul Kingsmith announced June 4, 2013, Berehowsky was to be the next head coach for the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League (WHL). During his first season with the club, the Hurricanes finished with 16 fewer wins and 37 fewer points than the previous season. The team missed the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season and set the franchise record for fewest wins (12) and fewest points (29) in the 26 season Lethbridge Hurricanes' history as well as the 47-year franchise history. On December 9, 2014, Berehowsky was fired from his coaching duties with the struggling Hurricanes. [6]

He then joined the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League as an associate coach in 2015. On November 14, 2016, Berehowsky left the Wolves to return to Orlando for a second stint as head coach of the Solar Bears. [1]

Head coach record

Team [7] Year Regular season Post season
GPWinLoseOTLPtsPoint %FinishResult
Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL) 2012-2013722837763.4385th (South)Missed playoffs
Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL) 2013-2014721255529.2015th (Central)Missed Playoffs
Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)2014-2015722044848.3335th (Central)Missed playoffs
Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL) (interim coach)2016-2017613121970.5824th (South)Loss vs Florida Everblades (4–3)
Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL)2017-2018723330972.5213rd (South)Win vs South Carolina Stingrays (4–1). Loss vs Florida (4–0)
Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL)2018-2019724125688.6212nd (South)Win vs South Carolina (4–1), Lose vs Florida (4–1)
Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL)2019-2020622729660.4845th (South)Playoffs cancelled (COVID-19)
Total (ECHL)33916014237-.471-
Total (WHL)144329913-.222-

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
Season TeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM GPGAPtsPIM
1987–88 Barrie Colts CJHL 4010364681—————
1988–89 Kingston Raiders OHL 637394685—————
1988–89 Canada Intl10000—————
1989–90 Kingston Frontenacs OHL93111428—————
1990–91 Kingston FrontenacsOHL135131838—————
1990–91 North Bay Centennials OHL2672330511027921
1990–91 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 801125—————
1991–92 North Bay CentennialsOHL62196382147217243122
1991–92 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL —————605521
1991–92 Toronto Maple LeafsNHL10000—————
1992–93 St. John's Maple LeafsAHL2810172738—————
1992–93 Toronto Maple LeafsNHL414151961—————
1993–94 St. John's Maple LeafsAHL183121540—————
1993–94 Toronto Maple LeafsNHL49281063—————
1994–95 Toronto Maple LeafsNHL2502215—————
1994–95 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL40001310000
1995–96 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 746283414130336
1995–96 Pittsburgh PenguinsNHL10000—————
1996–97 Carolina Monarchs AHL492151755—————
1996–97 San Antonio Dragons IHL1634736—————
1997–98 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL820221—————
1997–98 Edmonton Oilers NHL671671691212314
1998–99 Nashville Predators NHL7421517140—————
1999–2000 Nashville PredatorsNHL7912203287—————
2000–01 Nashville PredatorsNHL6661824100—————
2000–01 Vancouver Canucks NHL1411221400012
2001–02 Vancouver CanucksNHL2512318—————
2001–02 Phoenix Coyotes NHL321454250114
2002–03 Springfield Falcons AHL20000—————
2002–03 Phoenix CoyotesNHL712327—————
2003–04 Pittsburgh PenguinsNHL475162150—————
2003–04Toronto Maple LeafsNHL912317—————
2004–05 Skellefteå AIK SWE II 8101491025714
2005–06 San Antonio Rampage AHL1801123—————
2005–06 Eisbären Berlin DEL 1931215181111212
NHL totals549371121498482213430
AHL totals123174562177605521

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Preceded by Jack Ferguson Award
1988 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Toronto Maple Leafs first round draft pick
1990 		Succeeded by
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