Garry Young (ice hockey)

Garry Young ( January 2, 1936 - September 13, 1994) is a former executive in the National Hockey League.

He began his career as a scout for the Boston Bruins,and was promoted to chief scout and director of player personnel. In 1971 was hired by Charlie Finley as the California Golden Seals' new General Manager, replacing interim Fred Glover. He named himself coach after he dismissed Vic Stasiuk in the 1972 offseason. He was fired 12 games into the 1972–73 NHL season in light of irregularities surrounding Dick Redmond's contract. He created several copies of the contract with different amounts of compensation for Redmond's services on each. Finley rectified the situation by having Redmond traded to the Chicago Black Hawks and firing Young. Fred Glover was named Young's replacement.

Young was hired by the NHL brass as General Manager of the Golden Seals again in February 1974 after Glover resigned. Young's term was again short-lived: he resigned prior to the beginning of the following season. He joined the St. Louis Blues as their head coach later that year, lasting there for parts of two seasons.

He later coached the Peterborough Petes for a single season. Young had 4 children with his wife Verna, Steven, Michael, Linda and Paul. Young drowned in a boating accident in 1994.He is buried in Orono, Ontario.

References

• Diamond, D., Dinger, R., Duplacey, J., Fitzsimmons, E., Kuperman, I., Meagher, G., Pasternak, J., & Zweig, E. (Eds.) (1998). Total Hockey. New York City: Total Sports. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9
• Kurtzberg, B. (2006). Shorthanded: The Untold Stories of the Seals, Hockey's Most Colorful Team. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. ISBN 1-4259-1028-9
• http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F482480DF26CED6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

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Preceded by Fred Glover	General Manager of the California Golden Seals 1971-72	Succeeded by Fred Glover
Preceded by Vic Stasiuk	Head coach of the California Golden Seals 1972	Succeeded by Fred Glover
Preceded by Lynn Patrick	Head coach of the St. Louis Blues 1974-75	Succeeded by Lynn Patrick