Mike Addesa

Mike Addesa (born January 8, 1945) is a former American ice hockey coach and football player. Addesa was the head coach of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute men's ice hockey team from 1979 to 1989.[1] Addesa played collegiate football at Holy Cross.[2]

Coaching career

In 1974, Addesa became an assistant ice hockey coach at Holy Cross. He was elevated to head coach in 1976 and stayed in that position until the end of the 1978–1979 season, when he was hired by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[3]

Addesa was hired by RPI to replace Jim Salfi who had coached the team from 1972 to 1979.

In his 10 years with RPI, Mike Addesa won one NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship in 1985 and two ECAC Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championships in 1984 and 1985.[4]

He was fired from RPI in 1989 for making racist comments towards two black players on his team, one of whom was future NHL player Graeme Townshend: "If you don’t stop acting like a nigger, I’ll start treating you like one.” He has apologized for the comments. However, Townshend criticized the apology as insincere and stated that he had been forced into accepting it by RPI: “Addesa tried to pass our relationship off as a father/son thing. I hated the guy.”[5] Addesa would later go on to say that he had not meant the comments "racially" [6] and to describe his firing from RPI as a "scam" which had made it impossible for him to continue coaching.[7]

Scouting career

Mike worked as a scout for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League from 1990–1995 and the Calgary Flames from 2011–2013.[8] On August 4, 2015, Addesa was named as a scout for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League.[9]

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Holy Cross (ECAC 2) (1976–1979)
1976–1977 Holy Cross 10–12–0
1977–1978 Holy Cross 14–7–0
1978–1979 Holy Cross 15–8–0
RPI (ECAC Hockey) (1979–1989)
1979–1980 RPI 16–11–0
1980–1981 RPI 16–13–0
1982–1983 RPI 18–11–0 13–7–0 3rd West Region
1983–1984 RPI 32–6–0 17–3–0 1st West Region ECAC Champions
1984–1985 RPI 35–2–1 20–1–0 1st ECAC Champions, NCAA Champions
1985–1986 RPI 20–11–1 13–7–1 4th
1986–1987 RPI 13–18–2 9–13–0 T-7th
1987–1988 RPI 15–17–0 9–13–0 8th
1988–1989 RPI 12–17–3 8–12–2 8th
Holy Cross: 39–27–0
RPI: 186–124–9
Total: 225–151–9

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ↑ "MHKY All-Time Coaching Records". RPI Athletics Website. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ "All-Time Letterwinners" (PDF). College of the Holy Cross, Department of Athletics. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Mike Addesa". Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ "R.P.I. Hockey Mixes Class and Classes". New York Times. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ http://onecanuck.com/2015/08/07/mike-addesa-state-racism-nhl/
  6. ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8121460.html
  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19910526&id=lHQhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ogFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1206,6470358&hl=en
  8. ↑ http://www.eliteprospects.com/staff.php?staff=10739. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ "Canucks name Weisbrod assistant general manager". Sportsnet. August 4, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2015.

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