Chris Stewart (ice hockey, born 1961) explained

Chris Stewart
Played For:St. Albert Saints (AJHL)
Position:Defence
Birth Date:7 April 1961
Birth Place:Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Shoots:Left
Height Ft:6
Height In:0
Weight Lb:174
Draft:Undrafted
Career Start:1980
Career End:1982

Chris Stewart (born April 7, 1961) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and manager. He was most notable as the head coach and general manager of the Colorado Eagles while they were in the Central Hockey League and the ECHL.

Career

As a head coach, Stewart has won three Ray Miron President's Cups. He won his first Central Hockey League championship with the 1998–99 Huntsville Channel Cats, and won two more with the Colorado Eagles (then of the CHL) in the 2004–05 and 2006–07 seasons.[1] He initially retired as head coach of the Eagles in 2008 before returning to the position in 2010. He retired for a second time in 2016 but remained with the Eagles as general manager.[2] The Eagles won back-to-back Kelly Cups in his last two seasons as general manager before the organization joined the American Hockey League in 2018. As the Eagles became the AHL affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche, he was replaced as general manager by the Avalanche's assistant general manager, Craig Billington, in 2018.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The ECHL - Premier 'AA' Hockey League Behind the ECHL Benches - Chris Stewart, Colorado Eagles . 2011-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111108184328/http://www.echl.com/URLbehind-the-echl-benches-chris-stewart-colorado-eagles-p173036 . 2011-11-08 . dead .
  2. Web site: Chris Stewart retires as Colorado Eagles coach . . July 6, 2016.
  3. Web site: GRIZZLIES BECOME ECHL AFFILIATE OF COLORADO AVALANCHE . ECHL . June 28, 2018 . June 28, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180628235147/https://www.echl.com/grizzlies-become-echl-affiliate-colorado-avalanche . June 28, 2018 . dead .