Herb Brooks

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Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. (August 5, 1937 – August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey player and coach.

In 1980, his most notable work as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic hockey team at Lake Placid began.

Brooks' American team defeated the heavily favored Soviet team in a game that came to be dubbed "Miracle on Ice" at the Games. Brooks will continue to coach multiple National Hockey League (NHL) clubs, as well as the French team at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he earned a silver medal.

Brooks was killed in a 2003 car crash.

He was the director of player staff for the Pittsburgh Penguins at the time of his death.

Early years

Brooks was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Pauline and Herbert Brooks Sr. He attended Johnson High School, where his team dominated the 1955 state ice hockey championships.

Brooks continued his ice hockey career with the University of Minnesota Gophers from 1955 to 1959. He was a member of the 1960 Olympic team but was to be among the last cuts the week before the Games began. Brooks stayed at home with his father three weeks later and watched the team win gold in Squaw Valley. Brooks went back to the coach, Jack Riley, and said, "You must have made the right decision—you will win." Brooks, who was already devoted to self-driving, was given a push during this humbling experience.

Brooks set a record by playing for the United States national team eight times, including the 1964 and 1968 Olympic teams. He was a member of the highest-scoring forward line in USHL history at the time, as well as Bill Reichart and Ken Johannson, who appeared for the Rochester Mustangs in the United States Hockey League in the 1961-62 season.

Personal life

Brooks has been married to Patti since 1965, and they have two children, Dan and Kelly.

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Careers

Brooks, who left as a player, became a mentor, most notable for his 1972, 1976, and 1979 NCAA championship titles, most prominently as a coach. Brooks finished his collegiate coaching with a record of 175 victories, 102 losses, and 20 ties.

He was hired to coach the 1980 Olympic team shortly after Minnesota captured its third college championship. He selected several players from his Minnesota squad, as well as others from Boston University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, hand-picking his team. Brooks designed a blend of the rugged, physical North American style and the sleek European style, which emphasised innovation and teamwork in order to compete with the Soviet Union team specifically. He also emphasized peak conditioning, saying that one of the reasons the Soviet team dominated international competition was that many of their opponents were defeated by the third period.

Brooks moved to Switzerland to coach HC Davos in National League A after his team's Olympic gold medal victory. However, he resigned from this position in January 1981, just six months after being hired, with the team's poor track record and Brooks facing criticism for what was described as "rough activities." He worked with the New York Rangers' National Hockey League from 1981 to 1985, where he became the first American-born coach in Rangers' history to win 100 games. After a brief stop at then-NCAA Division III St., we arrived in a new one. He returned to the NHL to coach the Minnesota North Stars (1987–89), the New Jersey Devils (1992–93), and the Pittsburgh Penguins (1999–2000). He was a long-serving scout for the Penguins from the mid-1990s and assumed the position of Director of Player Personnel from 2002 to the day of his death. Before North Dakota coach Dave Hakstol was hired to coach an NHL team, he was the only time a college coach had been selected to coach an NHL team until the Philadelphia Flyers were drafted in May 2015.

Brooks has also coached two other Olympic hockey teams: Team France at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and the United States hockey team in Salt Lake City. In the gold medal game to Canada, the 2002 team defeated the Russians in the semi-finals en route to a silver. The United States' win over Russia came exactly 22 years to the day after the popular 'Miracle on Ice' game.

In 1990, Brooks was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990, and in 1999, the International Hockey Hall of Fame. He received the Wayne Gretzky International Award in 2004 and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Brooks confronted Colorado Avalanche announcer John Kelly on January 13, 2000, after being struck by Alexei Gusarov with 27 seconds remaining, he suspects Matthew Barnaby faked an injury. He had been banned indefinitely since January 15, and had been suspended indefinitely since January 15. Gusarov was banned two games for the hit on the night before Brooks was suspended.

Brooks spent two years doing television color commentary for SportsChannel America before being fired by the Minnesota North Stars. Play-by-play announcer Jiggs McDonald followed him for two years.

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