Ron Kennedy
Canadian ice hockey player
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| Intro | Canadian ice hockey player | |
| Places | Canada | |
| was | Athlete Ice hockey player | |
| Work field | Sports | |
| Gender |
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| Birth | 7 May 1953, North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Death | 9 July 2009Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria (aged 56 years) | |
| Star sign | Taurus |
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Biography
Ron Kennedy (May 7, 1953 – July 9, 2009) was a Canadian ice hockey player and trainer.
Early life
He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Career
Kennedy had played minor-league hockey in North America, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany and Austria before moving to coaching.
Coaching career
His last position was coaching for Innsbruck of the Austrian Hockey League.
His coaching career included:
- Medicine Hat Tigers (Western Hockey League)
- Villach, Austria - won the Austrian championship in his first year (1992–1994)
- New York Islanders assistant coach
- EC Hannover, Eisbären Berlin and ERC Ingolstadt (Deutsche Eishockey Liga)
- Head coach of the Austrian national team (1996–2002)
- Villach, Austria (second time)
- Innsbruck (Austria) and Bolzano (Italy)
- Canadian national team coach for the 2006 Deutschland Cup
Death
Ron Kennedy resigned after his December 2008 diagnosis of brain cancer, from which he died, aged 56, in Klagenfurt, Austria.