By Workers
The Canadian Press
Posted July 11, 2025 3:33 pm
1 min learn
Descrease article font measurement
Enhance article font measurement
Former determine skating star David Pelletier is getting his first shot at being an NHL assistant coach.
The Dallas Stars introduced Friday that Pelletier is becoming a member of new head coach Glen Gulutzan’s workers.
The 50-year-old from Sayabec, Que., had been a skating coach with the Edmonton Oilers for the final 11 years.
Pelletier joined the Oilers after a adorned determine skating profession that included a gold medal in pairs with accomplice Jamie Salé on the 2002 Salt Lake Metropolis Olympics.
In what grew to become one of many greatest tales of these Video games, Pelletier and Salé completed behind Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.
Get breaking Nationwide information
For information impacting Canada and around the globe, join breaking information alerts delivered on to you after they occur.
However when a French choose admitted she’d been pressured by her federation to favour the Russians, it ignited an argument.
Story continues beneath commercial
Pelletier and Salé had been later elevated to the highest of the rostrum alongside Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze.
Canada’s Jamie Sale and David Pelletier wave to the group after receiving their gold medals for the pairs ice dance on the XIX Olympic Winter Video games in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2002. The gold medal was additionally awarded to the Canadian pair following an argument within the judging of the competitors. (CP PHOTO/Tom Hanson).
TH BMA
Trending Now
60+ greatest Amazon Prime Day offers to attain now
1-year-old dies in scorching automobile whereas mother will get lip filler at spa
Pelletier and Salé additionally gained a world title and three Canadian championships over their profession and shared the Lou Marsh Trophy (now Northern Star Award) as high Canadian athlete in 2001.
Pelletier joins Alain Nasreddine (assistant coach), Neil Graham (assistant coach), Jeff Reese (goaltending coach), Patrick Dolan (head video coach) and Chris Demczuk (assistant video coach) on Gulutzan’s workers.
Gulutzan, who spent the previous seven seasons as an assistant with Edmonton, was named head coach of the Stars on July 1.
He changed Peter DeBoer, who was fired after the Stars misplaced to Edmonton within the Western Convention ultimate for the second straight yr.
Extra on Sports activities
Extra movies
© 2025 The Canadian Press
