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WCHA 70-YEAR CELEBRATION HEAD COACH NOMINATION FORM (Submit one form per nominee)

School: ______North Dakota______

Submitted By: ______Mitch Wigness______

HEAD COACH INFORMATION

Name: _____Dave Hakstol______

Decade (check all that apply): 1950s____ 1960s____ 1970s____ 1980s_____ 1990s_____ 2000s__X__ 2010s/20s__X__

Years Coached in the WCHA:(Ex: 1951-60)____2004-2013______

Career Record*: __235-119-37______Record in WCHA League Games: ___143-82-27______*- As a WCHA Head Coach

WCHA Regular Season Championships: ___2____ WCHA Postseason Championships: __4____ National Championships: 0_____

Coaching Honors (e.g. WCHA Coach of the Year, National Coach of the Year, All-Americans coached, school/NCAA records etc.):

______Hakstol, appointed head coach at UND on July 9, 2004 after four seasons as an assistant coach to Dean Blais, amassed a 289-143-43 (.654) overall record in his 11 seasons behind the bench of his alma mater and left as the second-winningest coach in program history. The Warburg, Alberta, native led UND to the NCAA postseason in each of his 11 seasons, including seven appearances in the NCAA Frozen Four, most of any program in the country during that span.

UND won three regular-season conference titles under Hakstol, capturing the MacNaughton Cup as Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) champion in 2008-09 and 2010-11 and the Penrose Cup as National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) champion in 2014-15. He also led UND to four Broadmoor Trophies as WCHA playoff champion in 2005-06, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. Hakstol was named NCHC Herb Brooks Coach of the Year in 2014-15 and WCHA Coach of the Year in 2008-09 and was an eight-time finalist for the Spencer Penrose Award as national coach of the year.

Forty-six of Hakstol's players at UND played professionally in 2014-15 and 20 reached the , including an NCHC-leading 16 in 2014-15. Two of his former players, Matt Greene of the and Jonathan Toews of the Blackhawks, have each won a pair of championships. UND produced a total of 42 NHL draft picks during Hakstol's tenure, including eight first-round picks.

Prior to being named head coach at UND, Hakstol spent four seasons on Blais' staff from 2000-01 through 2003-04. He was hired as an assistant coach on July 1, 2000, and was elevated to associate head coach in December of that same year.______

______Following the 2014-15 season, Hakstol was named the head coach of the , where he went 134-101-42 with a pair of playoff appearances over parts of four seasons. He later went to the as an assistant coach, a position he currently holds. ______

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Other Supporting Information (Pre- Post-WCHA Career, etc.):

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RETURN FORM VIA EMAIL TO TODD BELL AT [email protected] NO LATER THAN OCT. 30

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