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SPORTS PEOPLE

SPORTS PEOPLE; 2 N.H.L. Coaches Hired

SPORTS PEOPLE; 2 N.H.L. Coaches Hired
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With the Stanley Cup playoffs completed less than a week ago, two National Hockey League teams began preparations for next season by filling coaching vacancies yesterday. The Philadelphia Flyers, who on May 11 dismissed Mike Keenan despite his 190-102-28 record over four seasons, named an assistant coach, Paul Holmgren, as his successor. Holmgren, 32 years old, became the seventh coach in the Flyers' 21-year history and the youngest active coach in the league. He was a popular right wing with the Flyers from 1975 to 1984, recording 138 goals, 171 assists and a franchise-record 1,600 minutes in penalties. He was an assistant to Keenan for the last three years.

To replace Jean Perron, who resigned on May 16, the Montreal Canadiens appointed Pat Burns as the 20th coach in the franchise's history. Burns, a disciplinarian and former policeman for 16 years in Gatineau, Quebec, coached the Sherbrooke Canadiens of the American Hockey League last season after four seasons with the Hull Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. (AP)

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