John MacInnes (ice hockey)

John MacInnes
Biographical details
Born	July 21, 1925; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	March 6, 1983 (aged 57); Houghton, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Playing career
1945–1950	Michigan
Position(s)	Goaltender
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1956–1982	Michigan Tech
Head coaching record
Overall	555–295–39 (.646)
Tournaments	12–8 (.600)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	1960 WCHA Tournament champion; 1962 WCHA regular season champion; 1962 WCHA tournament champion; 1962 NCAA National Champion; 1963 WCHA regular season champion; 1963 WCHA tournament champion; 1965 WCHA tournament champion; 1965 NCAA national champion; 1966 WCHA regular season champion; 1969 WCHA regular season champion; 1969 WCHA tournament champion; 1970 WCHA tournament champion; 1971 WCHA regular season champion; 1974 WCHA regular season champion; 1974 WCHA tournament champion; 1975 WCHA tournament champion; 1975 NCAA national champion; 1976 WCHA regular season champion; 1976 WCHA tournament champion
Awards
	1960 WCHA Coach of the Year; 1962 WCHA Coach of the Year; 1966 WCHA Coach of the Year; 1970 Spencer Penrose Award; 1971 WCHA Coach of the Year; 1972 Upper Peninsula Hall of Fame; 1976 WCHA Coach of the Year; 1976 Spencer Penrose Award; 1984 Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame; 1986 Lester Patrick Trophy; 1999 Legends of College Hockey Award; 2007 United States Hockey Hall of Fame

John James MacInnes (July 1, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and NCAA hockey head coach. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Playing career

MacInnes was a goalie at the University of Michigan, helping the Wolverines to a pair of league titles and a third-place finish at the 1950 NCAA championship. MacInnes also played for farm teams of the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings before becoming director of the Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey League. He held that position until leaving to become head coach at Michigan Technological University.

Coaching career

MacInnes was the head coach of the Michigan Tech Huskies from the 1956-57 season through 1981-82. His teams won three NCAA championships and seven Western Collegiate Hockey Association titles during his 26 seasons as head coach. He was named NCAA Coach of the Year twice, after the 1969-70 and 1975-76 seasons. He was also named WCHA Coach of the Year 5 times, in 1960, 1962, 1966, 1971 and 1976.

His record as Michigan Tech's coach was 555-295-39.^[1]

During his final season as coach MacInnes' health began to fail and he announced in February that he would be stepping down at the end of the season.^[2] Less than a year later he died at the age of 57.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Michigan Tech Huskies (WIHL) (1956–1958)
1956–57	Michigan Tech	14–9–5	8–8–4	4th
1957–58	Michigan Tech	11–16–1	5–15–0	7th
Michigan Tech:		25–25–6	13–23–4
Michigan Tech Huskies Independent (1958–1959)
1958–59	Michigan Tech	16–10–1
Michigan Tech:		16–10–1
Michigan Tech Huskies (WCHA) (1959–1981)
1959–60	Michigan Tech	21–10–1	15–6–1	2nd	NCAA runner-up
1960–61	Michigan Tech	16–13–0	13–11–0	4th	WCHA Finals
1961–62	Michigan Tech	29–3–0	17–3–0	1st	NCAA national champion
1962–63	Michigan Tech	17–10–2	11–7–2	3rd	WCHA Semifinals
1963–64	Michigan Tech	14–12–1	9–7–0	4th	WCHA Semifinals
1964–65	Michigan Tech	24–5–2	12–5–1	2nd	NCAA national champion
1965–66	Michigan Tech	23–6–1	15–4–1	1st	WCHA second round
1966–67	Michigan Tech	18–11–1	14–7–1	3rd	WCHA second round
1967–68	Michigan Tech	22–9–1	15–5–0	2nd	WCHA second round
1968–69	Michigan Tech	21–9–2	14–5–1	1st	NCAA consolation game (loss)
1969–70	Michigan Tech	19–12–3	12–7–3	t-2nd	NCAA consolation game (loss)
1970–71	Michigan Tech	25–6–2	18–4–0	1st	WCHA regional semifinals
1971–72	Michigan Tech	16–17–1	11–15–0	7th	WCHA first round
1972–73	Michigan Tech	24–13–1	16–10–0	5th	WCHA second round
1973–74	Michigan Tech	28–9–3	20–6–2	1st	NCAA runner-up
1974–75	Michigan Tech	32–10–0	22–10–0	2nd	NCAA national champion
1975–76	Michigan Tech	34–9–0	25–7–0	1st	NCAA runner-up
1976–77	Michigan Tech	19–18–1	15–16–1	6th	WCHA first round
1977–78	Michigan Tech	25–14–1	21–11–0	3rd	WCHA second round
1978–79	Michigan Tech	17–18–3	13–16–3	7th	WCHA first round
1979–80	Michigan Tech	18–18–2	12–14–2	7th	WCHA first round
1980–81	Michigan Tech	29–14–1	17–11–0	t-2nd	NCAA third-place game (win)
Michigan Tech:		491–246–29	337–187–18
Michigan Tech Huskies (CCHA) (1981–1982)
1981–82	Michigan Tech	23–14–3	16–11–1	3rd	CCHA consolation game (loss)
Michigan Tech:		23–14–3	16–11–1
Total:		555–295–39
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

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Honors and awards

U.P. Sports Hall of Fame (Charter member, March 11, 1972)
Great Lakes Invitational Trophy named after MacInnes (December 12, 1982)
Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame (Charter member, 1984)
Won NHL's Lester Patrick Trophy (January 7, 1986)
Michigan Tech's Student Ice Arena renamed the John J. MacInnes Student Ice Arena (August 1991)
Legend of College Hockey Award from Hobey Baker Committee (April 17, 1999)
United States Hockey Hall of Fame (August 15, 2007)^[4]

References

^ "The Legend of John MacInnes" (PDF). Michigan Technological University. 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Michigan Tech Hockey 2009-10 Yearbook". Michigan Tech Huskies. Retrieved March 10, 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "2009-10 Michigan Tech Huskies Hockey Yearbook". Michigan Tech Huskies. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
^ "U.S Hall of Fame to induct Vanbiesbrouck, Broten, Carpenter, MacInnes". ESPN. 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007.

External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Award Created Murray Armstrong Bob Peters Glen Sonmor Jeff Sauer	WCHA Coach of the Year 1959–60 1961–62 1965–66 1970–71 1975–76	Succeeded by Murray Armstrong Barry Thorndycraft Bill Selman Jeff Sauer Bob Johnson
Preceded by Charlie Holt Jack Parker	Spencer Penrose Award 1969–70 1975–76	Succeeded by Cooney Weiland Jerry York
Preceded by Ned Harkness	Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award 1999 With: Glen Sonmor	Succeeded by Bob Johnson

[1] "The Legend of John MacInnes" (PDF). Michigan Technological University. 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}

[yearbook-2] "Michigan Tech Hockey 2009-10 Yearbook". Michigan Tech Huskies. Retrieved March 10, 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "2009-10 Michigan Tech Huskies Hockey Yearbook". Michigan Tech Huskies. Retrieved May 24, 2017.

[4] "U.S Hall of Fame to induct Vanbiesbrouck, Broten, Carpenter, MacInnes". ESPN. 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007.

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Formerly the Michigan College of Mines Huskies
Playing venues	Amphidrome (1919–1926) Dee Stadium (1928–1972) MacInnes Student Ice Arena (1972–present)
Head Coaches	E. R. Lovel (1919–20) Elmer Sicotte (1920–21, 1923–24) Mike Fay (1921–22) Bill Murdoch (1922–23) Leon Harvey (1924–26) Carlos Haug (1926–29) Bert Noblet (1929–36) Joe Savini (1936–38) Ed Maki (1938–41, 1945–48) Elwin Romnes (1941–43) Amo Bessone (1948–51) Al Renfrew (1951–56) John MacInnes (1956–82) Jim Nahrgang (1982–85) Herb Boxer (1985–90) Newell Brown (1990–92) Bob Mancini (1992–96) Tim Watters (1996–2000) Mike Sertich (2000–03) Jamie Russell (2003–11) Mel Pearson (2011–17) Joe Shawhan (2017–present)
Seasons	1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Conference affiliations	WCHA (1951–58, 1959–81, 1984–2021) CCHA (1981–84, 2021–Present)
Rivalries	Northern Michigan
Culture & lore	Great Lakes Invitational Huskies Pep Band
All-time leaders	Mike Zuke (310 Points) Mike Zuke (133 Goals) Blake Pietila (76 Wins)
National Championships	1962 1965 1975
Frozen Four appearances	1956 1960 1962 1965 1969 1970 1974 1975 1976 1981
NCAA Tournament appearances	1956 1960 1962 1965 1969 1970 1974 1975 1976 1981 2015 2017 2018 2022 2023 2024
Conference Tournament titles	WCHA: 1960 1962 1965 1969 1970 1974 1975 1976 1981 2017 2018 CCHA: 2024
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