Donald Joseph MacAdam (born August 14, 1950) is a Canadian professional

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coach. He is currently serving as the head coach of

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Career

In the first half of the 1970s, MacAdam played as a defender for the ice hockey team of

University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English language, English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universiti ...

, which competed in the CIAU championship. Following his playing career, he turned to coaching, and worked as the head coach of University of New Brunswick between 1977 and 1985. From 1986 to 1989, next to head coach

Jacques Demers Jacques Demers (born 25 August 1944) is a former Canadian Senator, former broadcaster and former professional ice hockey head coach. After a lengthy coaching career in the World Hockey Association and in the National Hockey League, Demers becam ...

he was the assistant coach of

Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the East ...

in the

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. In the early 1990s, he worked as the head coach for

Cape Breton Oilers The Cape Breton Oilers were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team was the top minor league affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Oilers' organization relocated the team from Hal ...

and

New Haven Senators The New Haven Senators were a professional ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League during the 1992–93 AHL season. The team played their home games at the New Haven Coliseum. The Senators were known as the New Haven Nighthawks. ...

in the

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. In the late 1990s, he worked as a head coach in Japan, and as a scout for the Canada men's national ice hockey team. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the head coach of

Charlotte Checkers The Charlotte Checkers are a professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the American Hockey League (AHL), and are the top minor league affiliate of the ...

, before coaching

Dayton Bombers The Dayton Bombers were an ECHL ice hockey team located in Dayton, Ohio. The team most recently was in the North Division of the ECHL's American Conference. The Bombers originally played at Hara Arena from 1991 to 1996. The team moved to the Erv ...

. In 2006, MacAdam along with Gail Reynolds published the book ''Coaching Hockey for Dummies'' with the support of National Alliance for Youth Sports. In 2014, MacAdam moved to

HC Bozen–Bolzano The Hockey Club Bolzano Foxes, also known as commercial name HCB Alto Adige Alperia (in Italian) or HCB Südtirol Alperia (in German) is an Italian professional ice hockey team located in the city of Bolzano, South Tyrol autonomous province, that ...

in the Italian

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. From 2018 to 2019, he was the head coach of

HSC Csíkszereda Hoki Sport Klub Csíkszereda () is a professional ice hockey club based in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. They play in the country's top-level championship, the Romanian Hockey League, and also participate in the international competition Erste Liga, ...

in the

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.In 2019, the ice hockey team of Ferencváros signed him as the new professional director of the club's junior teams. Since 2023, he is the head coach of

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