Regis Pierre McGuire (born August 8, 1961) is an

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executive who last served as senior vice-president of player development for the

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of the

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(NHL). He previously worked as a television analyst for ''

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'' broadcasts in the United States and on

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(TSN) in Canada. McGuire has also been a player, coach and scout.

Early life

McGuire was born in Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in

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, the son of Rex, an

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and Sally, a

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.Dellapina, John
"USA, Canada rivalry has evolved over time"

, February 20, 2010. Accessed February 16, 2011. "''"I think it really started to heat up when Gary Suter hit Wayne Gretzky from behind in the Canada Cup,'' said Pierre McGuire, the hockey analyst for NBC in the U.S. and TSN in Canada who was born in Englewood, N.J., now lives outside of Montreal and has split his life and citizenship between the two nations." He grew up in the

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area, (

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, Westmount and Sainte-Adèle) and attended

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. In 1977, his family moved to

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where he played football and hockey.

Playing career

McGuire was a standout hockey defenseman at Hobart College from 1979 to 1982. He also pitched for Hobart's baseball team and played quarterback on the football team for two years. He was graduated from Hobart with an English degree. After college, McGuire played one season of hockey in the Netherlands. In 1984, he attended the

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' training camp, but did not make the team.

Coaching and scouting career

Early career and Pittsburgh Penguins

McGuire began his coaching career at his alma mater, Hobart College, in 1984. He was paid $500 a season and made ends meet by working as a substitute English, math and physical education teacher in the

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, school district. In 1985, he was named assistant hockey and lacrosse coach at

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. At Babson, he coached hockey under future

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head coach Steve Stirling. After three seasons at Babson, he moved to

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, where he was an assistant hockey coach from 1988 to 1990. While at St. Lawrence, McGuire met

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, who frequently came to the school to visit his daughter. When Bowman became director of player development and recruitment for the

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on June 12, 1990, he offered McGuire a job as a special assignment scout. When Bowman became interim head coach in 1991, McGuire was named an assistant coach. McGuire won a

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as an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins in .

Hartford Whalers

McGuire joined the

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on August 28, 1992, as an assistant coach and on September 8, 1993, became the team's assistant general manager. On November 16, 1993, McGuire was named

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of the Whalers, replacing Paul Holmgren, who had stepped aside due to frustration with a lack of effort from his players and a desire to focus on his role as the team's

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. At age 32, McGuire was the youngest head coach in the NHL. Prior to becoming coach of the Whalers, McGuire had never been a head coach at any level. During his six months as Whalers head coach, McGuire coached the team to a 23–37–7 record. McGuire was fired as head coach on May 19, 1994. After the termination, captain

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called it the best thing that could have happened to the Whalers. He said his teammates had no respect for McGuire and that McGuire was mocked by other teams. In 1995, NHL commissioner

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ruled that McGuire would forfeit half of the remaining salary owed to him by the Whalers for providing confidential coaching evaluations to the

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. These evaluations had been prepared while he was employed by Hartford.

Later career

Following his departure from the Whalers, McGuire became a scout with the

. On November 22, 1995, he was elevated to the position of assistant coach. On January 23, 1996, McGuire was fired, along with head coach Dave Allison and goaltending coach

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. On August 27, 1996, McGuire was named the inaugural head coach of the

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's Baton Rouge Kingfish. He was given a three-year contract. McGuire led the team to a 31–33–6 record and a seventh-place finish in the South Division. On July 12, 1997, McGuire exercised an escape clause in his contract to become the radio analyst for

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's broadcasts of

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games.

Broadcasting career

From until , McGuire served as color commentator for the Montreal Canadiens' English-language radio broadcasts on CJAD 800 with Dino Sisto. He also worked on some of the team's regional television broadcasts on

(TSN) when primary color analyst Gary Green was unavailable and was a contributor to TSN's ''

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''. When TSN re-acquired the Canadian national cable rights to NHL hockey in 2002, McGuire was hired as its lead hockey analyst. With TSN, McGuire called the games along with the

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voice of Gord Miller or

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. He also did special hockey events for TSN, including the

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and international events like the IIHF World Junior Championships. He also hosted a segment known as "McGuire's Monsters" where he covered a player with a significant impact through a combination of skills. Pierre McGuire and Sidney Crosby 2017-05-10 2

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McGuire joined

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after they acquired the rights to NHL games in 2006. He usually worked as an "Inside the Glass" reporter with the lead broadcast team of

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and

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. After the

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, McGuire left TSN to work full time for

and

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. He continues to appear on TSN Radio. McGuire also writes for ''

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'' and provides frequent commentary on New York's

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, Toronto's

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, Ottawa

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, the Team 1200, the Ottawa Senators' fan podcas
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and Montreal's TSN 690 where he can be heard on the

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show, th
TEAM 1040
in Vancouver heard on the Canucks Lunch with

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, as well as Wednesday mornings on Calgary's Fan 960. Beyond hockey, McGuire served as a reporter for water polo at the

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and

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for NBC, working with his NHL colleague Mike Emrick at the London Games in 2012.

Management career

On July 12, 2021, the

hired McGuire as the team's senior vice-president of player development. The 59-year-old McGuire had gone nearly three full decades without a managerial job in the NHL. On May 9, 2022, it was announced that McGuire had been let go from this position.

Stances on issues in hockey

McGuire has been outspoken as an advocate of removing the red line and allowing skilled players to play a skilled game without clutching and grabbing impeding them. His views of hockey have him campaigning for all players to wear partial visors. McGuire's outspoken nature provided one of the more interesting stories during the

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. After McGuire claimed that, if asked to vote privately, more than 70% of NHL players would accept an owner-imposed

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; NHL player

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countered that McGuire was completely off-base. McGuire later retracted part of his claim by saying he never should have given a percentage but that he still believed strongly that assertion was true. In the end, the players accepted a salary cap arrangement in the

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ratified in 2005.

Personal life

McGuire is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He has previously resided in

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; Westmount, Quebec; Sainte-Adèle, Quebec;

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;

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;

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; and

. He currently lives in

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. He has been married twice and has two children, both by his second wife.

Coaching record

References

External links

TSN profile
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