John Brian Patrick "Pat" Quinn (born January 29, 1943, in Hamilton, Ontario), is a former head coach in the National Hockey League, most recently with the Toronto Maple Leafs between 1998 and 2006. He is also a retired NHL defenceman. He has won the junior league's Memorial Cup as both a player and an owner. He is sometimes known by the nickname "The Big Irishman".
J.B. Patrick Quinn was a member of the 1963 Memorial Cup champion Edmonton Oil Kin...
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John Brian Patrick "Pat" Quinn (born January 29, 1943, in Hamilton, Ontario), is a former head coach in the National Hockey League, most recently with the Toronto Maple Leafs between 1998 and 2006. He is also a retired NHL defenceman. He has won the junior league's Memorial Cup as both a player and an owner. He is sometimes known by the nickname "The Big Irishman".
J.B. Patrick Quinn was a member of the 1963 Memorial Cup champion Edmonton Oil Kings, where he was a teammate of fellow future NHL player, coach, and manager Glen Sather." After several years in the minor leagues in the EHL, CHL and WHL, he was called up by the Maple Leafs in 1968. During this tenure, he is probably best remembered for an open-ice elbow to the head of Bobby Orr in the 1969 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Boston Bruins which left him unconscious and provoked not only a bench-clearing brawl, but a suspension for Quinn. In 1970, the Vancouver Canucks claimed Quinn in the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft. After two...
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