Mark Pederson

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image = Markpedersoncoach.jpg

| image_size = 230px

| position = Left wing

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 2

| weight_lb = 196

| played_for = Montreal Canadiens
Philadelphia Flyers
San Jose Sharks
Detroit Red Wings

| ntl_team =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|01|14}}

| birth_place = Prelate, Saskatchewan, Canada

| draft = 15th overall

| draft_year = 1986

| draft_team = Montreal Canadiens

| career_start = 1988

| career_end = 2005

}}

Mark Patrick Pederson (born January 14, 1968) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey left winger who played 169 games in the NHL. He is currently serving as head coach of German side Augsburger Panther since 2021.

Pederson was born in Prelate, Saskatchewan, but grew up in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Playing career

Pederson was drafted 15th overall by the Canadiens in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. He spent played five seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks and Detroit Red Wings from 1989–90 until 1993–94. He saw action in a total of 169 NHL games, scoring 35 goals and 50 assists for 85 points.

In 1995, he took his game overseas and signed with Austrian side Villacher SV. In the following season (1996–97), he played for Färjestad BK in Sweden, before transferring to Zürcher SC of Switzerland. From 1997 to 2002, Pederson spent time in Germany, representing DEL teams Hannover Scorpions, Krefeld Pinguine and Adler Mannheim and won the German championship with the Adler squad in 2001. Pederson joined the San Diego Gulls in 2002 and had a three-year stint with the team. In the 2002-03 season, he led the Gulls to winning the Taylor Cup, while being named Playoff MVP and WCHL Forward of the Year.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/san-diego-gulls-win-2003-taylor-cup/n-1994246|title=San Diego Gulls Win 2003 Taylor Cup - OurSports Central|website=www.oursportscentral.com|date=12 May 2003 |access-date=2016-07-09}} He retired following the 2004-05 season.

Coaching career

Pederson served a four-year stint as assistant coach of ECHL's Bakersfield Condors from 2005 to 2009 and was the head coach of the Tilburg Trappers of the Dutch Eredivisie in 2009-10, while also coaching the Serbian national team.{{Cite web|url=https://tilburg.com/nieuws/mark-pederson-coach-servie-tijdens-wk-in-tilburg/|title=Mark Pederson coach Servië tijdens WK in Tilburg|last=|first=|date=9 November 2009|website=|publisher=|access-date=2016-07-09}} After one season he left Tilburg and went to Japan where he acted as head coach of the Nikkō Ice Bucks{{cite web|url=http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/coming-full-circle.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=955&cHash=f17d55499a|title=Coming full circle|last=Loonen|first=Joeri|date=2010-08-02|publisher=IIHF.com|accessdate=2010-08-02|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017224707/http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/coming-full-circle.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=955&cHash=f17d55499a|archivedate=2012-10-17}} between 2010 and 2013.

Pederson took over the head coaching job at Esbjerg Energy prior to the 2013–14 season. After a runner-up finish in 2015, he guided the Energy to the Danish championship in 2016 and 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://sport.tv2.dk/ishockey/2016-04-19-esbjerg-vinder-mesterskabet-for-forste-gang-i-12-ar|title=Esbjerg vinder mesterskabet for første gang i 12 år|date=2016-04-19|language=da-DK|access-date=2016-07-09}}

Legal Troubles

Pederson was suspended for two weeks in 2009 for an "internal matter" while working as an assistant coach with the Bakersfield Condors, which was revealed later to be due to antisemitic comments toward then-Condor Jason Bailey.{{cite news|last=Rodriguez|first=Sabrina|title=Racist comments may have led to Condors coaches' suspension|newspaper=Bakersfield Now|date=29 May 2009}} In January 2011, Pederson was named in a lawsuit filed by Bailey's lawyer, Keith Fink, alleging that his client faced "a barrage of anti-Semitic, offensive and degrading verbal attacks regarding his Jewish faith" from Pederson and head coach Marty Raymond.{{cite news|last=Baxter|first=Kevin|title=Former Ducks minor league player says he faced anti-Semitic remarks|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0127-ducks-suit-20110127,0,1227761.story|accessdate=27 January 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=26 January 2011}}{{cite news|title=US Jewish ice hockey player sues club for anti-Semitism|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12294350|accessdate=27 January 2011|newspaper=BBC News|date=26 January 2011}} Pederson, in particular, was named in the suit as having approached Bailey on one occasion to state: "oh, I got a (Facebook) friend request from a dirty Jew."{{cite news|last=Cherner|first=Reid|title=Former Ducks prospect files lawsuit for anti-Semitic remarks|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/01/former-ducks-prospect-files-lawsuit-for-anti-semitic-remarks/1|accessdate=28 January 2011|newspaper=USA Today|date=26 January 2011}} On January 27, ESPN.com released details of court documents filed by Fink and reported that the NHL is also now investigating.{{cite news|last=Burnside|first=Scott|title=Details emerge of Jason Bailey's suit|url=https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/nhl/news/story?id=6065644&campaign=rss&source=NHLHeadlines|access-date=28 January 2011|newspaper=ESPN.com|date=28 January 2011}} According to a report dated November 8, 2011, Bailey voluntarily filed a request to dismiss all claims of discrimination.{{cite web|title=Ex-Condor's discrimination suit dismissed|url=http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/sports/condors/x357052137/Ex-Condors-discrimination-suit-dismissed|work=The Bakersfield Californian|accessdate=13 August 2013|author=The Bakersfield Californian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004222223/http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/sports/condors/x357052137/Ex-Condors-discrimination-suit-dismissed|archive-date=4 October 2013|url-status=dead}}

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Playoffs
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM
1983–84 \| Medicine Hat Tigers AAA \| AMHL \| 42	43	47	90	64 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1983–84 \| Medicine Hat Tigers \| WHL \| 3	0	0	0	0 \| —	—	—	—	—
1984–85 \| Medicine Hat Tigers \| WHL \| 71	42	40	82	63 \| 10	3	2	5	0
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1985–86 \| Medicine Hat Tigers \| WHL \| 72	46	60	106	46 \| 25	12	6	18	25
1986–87 \| Medicine Hat Tigers \| WHL \| 69	56	46	102	58 \| 20	19	7	26	14
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1987–88 \| Medicine Hat Tigers \| WHL \| 62	53	58	111	55 \| 16	13	6	19	16
1988–89 \| Sherbrooke Canadiens \| AHL \| 75	43	38	81	53 \| 6	7	5	12	4
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1989–90 \| Montreal Canadiens \| NHL \| 9	0	2	2	2 \| 2	0	0	0	0
1989–90 \| Sherbrooke Canadiens \| AHL \| 72	53	42	95	60 \| 11	10	8	18	19
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1990–91 \| Montreal Canadiens \| NHL \| 47	8	15	23	18 \| —	—	—	—	—
1990–91 \| Philadelphia Flyers \| NHL \| 12	2	1	3	5 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1991–92 \| Philadelphia Flyers \| NHL \| 58	15	25	40	22 \| —	—	—	—	—
1992–93 \| Philadelphia Flyers \| NHL \| 14	3	4	7	6 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1992–93 \| San Jose Sharks \| NHL \| 27	7	3	10	22 \| —	—	—	—	—
1993–94 \| Detroit Red Wings \| NHL \| 2	0	0	0	2 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1993–94 \| Adirondack Red Wings \| AHL \| 62	52	45	97	37 \| 12	4	7	11	10
1994–95 \| Kalamazoo Wings \| IHL \| 75	31	32	63	47 \| 16	8	4	12	2
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1995–96 \| EC VSV \| AUT \| 34	28	32	60	52 \| —	—	—	—	—
1996–97 \| Färjestad BK \| SEL \| 30	7	4	11	26 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1996–97 \| Zürcher SC \| NLA \| 9	7	3	10	4 \| 5	1	3	4	30
1997–98 \| Hannover Scorpions \| DEL \| 39	19	32	51	55 \| 9	1	6	7	6
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1998–99 \| Krefeld Pinguine \| DEL \| 50	21	27	48	40 \| 4	3	1	4	4
1999–00 \| Krefeld Pinguine \| DEL \| 44	20	17	37	80 \| 3	2	0	2	4
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 2000–01 \| Adler Mannheim \| DEL \| 42	7	7	14	16 \| 11	3	5	8	4
2001–02 \| Hannover Scorpions \| DEL \| 54	18	10	28	32 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 2002–03 \| San Diego Gulls \| WCHL \| 60	39	33	72	34 \| 12	6	10	16	2
2003–04 \| San Diego Gulls \| ECHL \| 70	44	37	81	38 \| 3	2	0	2	0
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 2004–05 \| San Diego Gulls \| ECHL \| 48	13	21	34	34 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" \| DEL totals ! 229 !! 85 !! 93 !! 178 !! 223 ! 27 !! 9 !! 12 !! 21 !! 18
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" \| NHL totals ! 169 !! 35 !! 50 !! 85 !! 77 ! 2 !! 0 !! 0 !! 0 !! 0