Daniel "Danny" Naud (born February 20, 1962) is a
Canadian
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professional
ice hockey
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coach and a former professional player. He is currently serving as head coach of
Bietigheim Steelers in Germany.
Playing career
Born in
Trois-Rivières
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,
Quebec
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, Naud played professionally in the AHL and the IHL, before taking his game to Europe in 1986. A defenseman, his overseas career included stints in Germany (
EV Landshut
EV Landshut, also known as EVL Landshut Eishockey and formerly known as the Landshut Cannibals, are a professional ice hockey team based in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. They currently play in Deutsche Eishockey Liga 2, the second level of ice hoc ...
,
Augsburger EV/Augsburger Panther, TuS Geretsried), Switzerland (
SC Langnau) and France (
Dragons de Rouen
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The team was founded in 1982 and plays home games at the Île Lacroix.
History
Only 3 years af ...
) and lasted from 1986 to 1999.
Highlights of his playing career were winning the AHL
Calder Cup
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The cup is made of sterling silver mounted on a base of Brazilian mahogany. In its cur ...
with the
Rochester Americans
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in 1983, the
Turner Cup
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with IHL’s
Muskegon Lumberjacks in 1985 and earning promotion to the German elite league
Deutsche Eishockey Liga
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with the
Augsburger Panther
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in 1994. He also participated in the
Spengler-Cup twice, representing Team Canada and
HC Davos
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, and played in the
Deutschland-Cup as a member of an DEL-Allstar-Team.
Coaching career
Following his retirement as a player, Naud was named assistant coach of the
Augsburger Panther
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, a member of the German elite league
Deutsche Eishockey Liga
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(DEL) in 2000. As a player, he had spent four year with the club. During his first year coaching, Naud was promoted from assistant to head coach when the Panthers parted ways with
Bob Manno
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in October 2000. Naud was relieved from his duties in November 2002 after an eleven-game losing streak and took the head coaching position at German second-division side
Bietigheim Steelers in January 2003. He remained in the job until November 2004,
followed by a short stint as head coach of the
Straubing Tigers
The Straubing Tigers are a professional men's ice hockey team, based in Straubing, Germany, that competes in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Straubing plays its home games at the Eisstadion am Pulverturm, which has a capacity of 5,800 spectators.
Pr ...
, another German second-division team, in 2004-05. Naud led the Tigers to the 2. Bundesliga finals.
Prior to the 2005-06 season, Naud was hired as head coach by the
Landshut Cannibals, where he had started his overseas playing career in 1986. He spent two years at the helm, before returning to his native Québec, where he served as assistant coach of QMJHL’s
Victoriaville Tigres in 2008-09.
Naud joined the coaching staff of German DEL team
Hamburg Freezers
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for the 2009-10 campaign, serving as assistant to head coach
Paul Gardner.
In 2010-11, he worked in the Swiss top flight NLA, serving a stint as an assistant coach at
EHC Biel
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before moving to fellow NLA side
HC Fribourg-Gottéron, where he held the same position.
From 2011 to 2014, Naud took over head coaching duties at Austrian
HC Innsbruck
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History
The club was founded in 1994 as HC Innsbru ...
, guiding the club to the Nationalliga championship title and to promotion to the country’s top-tier league in his first year. After three years at the Innsbruck helm, he did not have his contract renewed following the 2013-14 season.
Prior to the 2014-15 season, Naud was appointed head coach of German second-division club
Ravensburg Towerstars
The Ravensburg Towerstars, also known as EV Ravensburg, are a professional ice hockey team based in Ravensburg, Germany, and one of the oldest clubs in the country. They currently play in DEL2
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. In February 2015, he signed a contract extension with the Towerstars through the 2015-16 season and then was handed a contract extension in April 2016. He was sacked on October 25, 2016. At that time, the Towerstars were sitting in 11th place in the DEL2 standings. He was named assistant coach of German
DEL outfit
EHC Wolfsburg on December 12, 2016 and stayed on that job until the end of the 2017-18 season. In February 2019, he took over the head coaching job at DEL2 team
Eispiraten Crimmitschau. He parted company with the team in March 2020 after one season. The Crimmitschau team played 69 games under Naud, winning 30.
Naud was named head coach of the Bietigheim Steelers prior to the 2020-21 season.
Under his guidance, Bietigheim won promotion to the German top-tier DEL in 2021.
Personal life
Guillaume Naud, one of his two sons, plays for the Bietigheim Steelers. He previously played for junior teams in Germany and Canada, and the universities of
Lethbridge and
Nipissing.
External links
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* http://www.eliteprospects.com/staff.php?staff=1612
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Naud, Daniel
1962 births
Living people
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Sportspeople from Trois-Rivières
Muskegon Lumberjacks players
Rochester Americans players
Dragons de Rouen players
Augsburger Panther players
EV Landshut players
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Buffalo Sabres draft picks