BARRY TROTZ Head Coach
Barry Trotz, head coach of the Portland Pirates from 1993-1997 and current head coach of the Nashville
Predators, was inducted as the ninth member of the Pirates Hall of Fame on Sunday,
February 26, 2006.
"I'm truly honored to be a part of the Portland Pirates Hall of
Fame," said Trotz. "The four years I spent in Portland were four great years. We
went to the Finals twice, won a championship and a number of our players - guys
like Jason Allison, Sergei Gonchar and Brendan Witt - went on to great success
in the National Hockey League. We started a great hockey tradition in Portland
and were blessed to have a passionate and caring fan base."
While coaching the Pirates, Trotz compiled a record of 158-109-42-11 for a winning
percentage of .557, which remains the highest winning percentage in Pirates
history. In the Pirates inaugural season, 1993-1994, Trotz led Portland to the
Calder Cup Championship and was named the Louis A. R. Pieri Award winner as the
league's Coach of the Year.
The following year, his club opened the season with a North American pro hockey
record 17-game winning streak (14-0-3) and finished the season with a franchise
record 46 wins and 104 points. That year he was selected to coach at the AHL
All-Star Classic in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1996, after a sub-.500 regular
season, the native of Dauphin, Manitoba again led the Pirates to the Calder Cup
finals before falling to the Rochester Americans in seven games. In his time in
Portland, Trotz earned more regular season and playoff wins than any coach in
franchise history. He currently serves at the head coach of the NHL's Nashville
Predators, where he has coached all 492 regular season games since their inaugural
season in 1997, compiling a record of 183-235-60-14.
Trotz began his coaching career in 1984 as an assistant with the University of
Manitoba. He then served two seasons (1985-87) as the head coach and general manager
of the Dauphin Kings junior hockey club, part of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League,
before returning to the University of Manitoba as the head coach in 1987, where he
is a member of the University's Hall of Fame. He was named head coach of the
Baltimore Skipjacks in 1992 after one season as an assistant coach and remained head
coach of the team after it relocated to Portland following the 1992-93 season. Before
coaching, Trotz played junior hockey for Regina (WHL) from 1979-83, registering 102
points (19 goals and 83 assists) and 490 penalty minutes in 204 games.
Barry and his wife, Kim, currently reside in Brentwood, Tennessee along with their four
children: Shalan, Tyson, Tiana and Nolan.
YEAR INDUCTED: 2005
