Mammoth Sign André Tourigny To Multi-Year Contract

Overall, the Trois-Rivières, Quebec native has combined for 164 total games behind the Mammoth’s bench, posting a record of 81-64-19 for a points% of .552, a much-needed increase from his previous three seasons with the Coyotes, which saw a 246 game stretch of 89-131-26 record at a .415 points%. He has seen the development of mainstay pieces like Clayton Keller, Nick Schmaltz, Lawson Crouse, Dylan Guenther, Logan Cooley, Jack McBain, Barrett Hayton, and Karel Vejmelka into core players for Utah.

He has officially only held his Head Coach title for two seasons, still standing as the 10th-longest tenured head coach. Technically speaking, Tourigny is the fourth-longest tenured head coach in the league. Only Jon Cooper (TBL), Jared Bednar (COL), and Rod Brind’Amour (CAR) have held their positions for a lengthier time than Tourigny. Some may consider this stat invalid since the Coyotes are no more as a franchise and instead, relocated. The Mammoth are considered a “new” franchise, even with the entirety of the roster and staff coming from the Coyotes.

Tourigny has seen many different parts of North American hockey in the coaching aspect. In between his time with the QMJHL and OHL, he had another previous short stint in the NHL as an assistant. He spent two years with Colorado and one with the Ottawa Senators from 2013 to 2016, notably spending time with players like Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog, and Ryan O’Reilly in Denver, as well as Erik Karlsson, Mika Zibanejad, and Mark Stone in his home nation’s capital for the 2015-16 season.

In the Canadian major junior hockey world, Tourigny has quite the trophy case stocked up. Most notably, he coached the Ottawa 67’s in the Ontario Hockey League for three years, winning the OHL coach of the year twice (2018-19, 2019-20), and the CHL’s Coach of the Year Award (2019-20). Previously, in the 2005-06 season, when he was coaching the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, he was awarded the QMJHL’s Coach of the Year

Internationally, He’s won three World Junior Silver Medals with Canada, two in 2009-10, 2010-11 as an assistant coach, and one in 2020-21 as head coach. He’s also won a Hlinka Gretzky Cup Gold Medal in 2018-19 and medaled three times at the IIHF World Championships, twice a gold medalist.

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