Wissenswertes

Served as the head coach of the Buffalo Sabres from 1997 to 2013.

Played for the Buffalo Sabres from 1979 to 1989 and the New York Rangers from 1989 to 1991.

Won the 2006 Jack Adams Award as the NHL's Coach of the Year.

His younger brother, Brent was one of four players killed in a bus crash as a member of the Swift Current Broncos on December 30, 1986. The bus was on its way to Regina, Saskatchewan for a game that evening, when it slid off Trans-Canada Highway #1 east of Swift Current.

He and his brothers Randy, Marty and Brent all were hockey players. He was the only one of the three surviving ones who made it to the National Hockey League.

He was drafted 32nd overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft.

He was hired by the Dallas Stars as the team's head coach on June 20, 2013. Sixteen years earlier, his Buffalo Sabres team was defeated by the Stars in Game 6 of the 1999 Stanley Cup Final on a controversial goal in triple overtime.

Has four children with his wife Gaye: a son Brett, a daughter Eryn and twins Madeline and Brian.