Mike Addesa
{{Short description|American ice hockey coach (1945–2022)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Mike Addesa
| image =
| alt =
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|01|08}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|West Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|29|1945|01|08}}
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_team1 =
| player_years1 =
| player_positions =
| coach_years1 = 1966–1967
| coach_team1 = Stoneham HS (asst.)
| coach_years2 = 1967–1968
| coach_team2 = St. Mary's HS
| coach_years3 = 1968–1973
| coach_team3 = Randolph HS
| coach_years4 = 1973–1974
| coach_team4 = Wellesley HS
| coach_years5 = 1974–1976
| coach_team5 = Holy Cross (asst.)
| coach_years6 = 1976–1979
| coach_team6 = Holy Cross
| coach_years7 = 1979–1989
| coach_team7 = Rensselaer
| coach_years8 = 1989–1990
| coach_team8 = Notre Dame Hounds (GM)
| coach_years9 = 1990–1995
| coach_team9 = Detroit Red Wings (scout)
| coach_years10 = 1995–2012
| coach_team10 = Boston Bulldogs (HC/GM/Owner)
| coach_years11 = 2011–2013
| coach_team11 = Calgary Flames (scout)
| coach_years12 = 2015–2017
| coach_team12 = Vancouver Canucks (scout)
| coach_years13 = 2015–2017
| coach_team13 = Seacoast Spartans (GM)
| overall_record = 236–155–9 ({{winpct|236|155|9}}) [College]
| tournament_record = 3–2–1 ({{winpct|3|2|1}})
| championships =
| awards =
- First-team All-East (1965)
| coaching_records =
}}
Michael John Addesa, Jr. (January 8, 1945 – November 29, 2022) was an American ice hockey coach and football player. Addesa was the head coach of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute men's ice hockey team from 1979 to 1989.{{cite web|work=RPI Athletics Website|url=http://www.rpiathletics.com/sports/2010/7/8/MHOCK_0708101259.aspx?id=2833|title=MHKY All-Time Coaching Records|accessdate=October 14, 2014}} Addesa played collegiate football at Holy Cross.{{cite web|work=College of the Holy Cross, Department of Athletics|url=http://www.goholycross.com/sports/m-footbl/archive_files/letters.pdf|title=All-Time Letterwinners|accessdate=October 14, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019225311/http://www.goholycross.com/sports/m-footbl/archive_files/letters.pdf|archivedate=October 19, 2014}}
Coaching career
In 1974, Addesa became an assistant ice hockey coach at Holy Cross. He was elevated to head coach in 1976 and stayed in that position until the end of the 1978–1979 season, when he was hired by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.{{cite web|work=Internet Hockey Database|url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=61915|title=Mike Addesa|accessdate=October 14, 2014}}
Addesa was hired by RPI to replace Jim Salfi who had coached the team from 1972 to 1979.
In his 10 years with RPI, Mike Addesa won one NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship in 1985 and two ECAC Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championships in 1984 and 1985.{{cite news|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/01/sports/rpi-hockey-mixes-class-and-classes.html|title=R.P.I. Hockey Mixes Class and Classes|date=February 1986|accessdate=October 14, 2014|last1=Wallace|first1=William N.}}
Addesa was forced to resign as head coach at RPI in 1989 due to philosophical differences, stemming from the controversy over accusations of making racist comments towards one of two black players on his team, one of whom was future NHL player Graeme Townshend: "If you don’t put forth a greater effort, the world will only see you as a stereotypical nigger.” He has apologized for the comments. Townshend accepted the apology, and has voiced 100% support for Addesa from the beginning. Townshend has stated that his relationship with Addesa was unlike any player/coach relationship he had ever experienced, and that Addesa went above and beyond the job of just being a coach. Townshend viewed their relationship as being closer to a father/son thing. "I loved the guy.”{{cite web |url=http://onecanuck.com/2015/08/07/mike-addesa-state-racism-nhl/ |title=Mike Addesa and the State of Racism in the NHL - OneCanuck |website=onecanuck.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811002407/http://onecanuck.com/2015/08/07/mike-addesa-state-racism-nhl |archive-date=2015-08-11}} Addesa would later go on to say that he had not meant the comments "racially" [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924200805/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8121460.html HighBeam] and to describe his firing from RPI as a "scam" which had made it impossible for him to continue coaching.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19910526&id=lHQhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ogFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1206,6470358&hl=en|title = The Daily Gazette - Google News Archive Search}}
Scouting career
Addesa worked as a scout for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League from 1990 to 1995 and the Calgary Flames from 2011 to 2013.{{Cite web|url = http://www.eliteprospects.com/staff.php?staff=10739|title = Elite Prospects Hockey: Mike Addesa}}
On August 4, 2015, Addesa was named as a scout for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League.{{Cite web|url = http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canucks-name-weisbrod-assistant-general-manager/|title = Canucks name Weisbrod assistant general manager|date = August 4, 2015|accessdate = August 4, 2015|website = Sportsnet|publisher = |last = |first = }}
Personal life and death
Addesa died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, on November 29, 2022, at the age of 77 from natural causes.{{cite web|url=https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2022/11/30_Former-RPI-Coach-Mike-Addesa.php|title=Former RPI Coach Mike Addesa Dies|work=College Hockey News|date=30 November 2022|access-date=30 November 2022}}
Head coaching record
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{{CIH yearly record subhead
|name = Holy Cross Crusaders men's ice hockey
|color = color:white; background:#602D89; {{box-shadow border|a|#AEB2B5|2px}}
|startyear = 1976
|conference = ECAC 2
|endyear = 1979
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1976–77
| name = Holy Cross
| overall = 15–12–0
| conference = 10–12–0
| confstanding = 16th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1977–78
| name = Holy Cross
| overall = 17–9–0
| conference = 14–7–0
| confstanding = T–8th
| postseason = ECAC 2 East Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1978–79
| name = Holy Cross
| overall = 18–10–0
| conference = 14–9–0
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason = ECAC 2 East Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Holy Cross
| overall = 50–31–0
| confrecord = 38–28–0
}}
{{CIH yearly record subhead
|name = RPI Engineers men's ice hockey
|color = color:white; background:#E2231B; {{box-shadow border|a|#222222|2px}}
|startyear = 1979
|conference = ECAC Hockey
|endyear = 1989
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1979–80
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 16–11–0
| conference = 14–8–0
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1980–81
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 16–13–0
| conference = 10–11–0
| confstanding = t–10th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1981–82
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 9–18–2
| conference = 6–12–2
| confstanding = 14th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1982–83
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 18–11–0
| conference = 13–7–0
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 1983–84
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 32–6–0
| conference = 17–3–0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = national
| season = 1984–85
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 35–2–1
| conference = 20–1–0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Champion
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1985–86
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 20–11–1
| conference = 13–7–1
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1986–87
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 13–18–2
| conference = 9–13–0
| confstanding = T-7th
| postseason = ECAC Third Place Game (Tie)
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1987–88
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 15–17–0
| conference = 9–13–0
| confstanding = 8th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1988–89
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 12–17–3
| conference = 8–12–2
| confstanding = 8th
| postseason = ECAC Quarterfinals
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Rensselaer
| overall = 186–124–9
| confrecord = 119–87–5
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = 236–155–9
| conference =
}}
References
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External links
- {{hockeydb|61915}}
{{Holy Cross Crusaders men's ice hockey navbox}}
{{RPI Engineers men's ice hockey navbox}}
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