Harry Sinden (born September 14, 1932 in Collins Bay, Ontario, Canada) was the coach of the Canadian national men's hockey team during the 1972 Summit Series and the American national women's hockey team during the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Before 1972, Sinden served as head coach of the Boston Bruins NHL hockey team, coaching a team loaded with stars such as Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito to the team's first Stanley Cup in over thirty years. After the Summit Series, he became the team's general manager.

After his coaching stint with the Bruins ended and before he was called out of retirement to coach the Canadian team in the '72 Series, Sinden worked in the home construction business in Rochester, New York.

Sinden's selection was based on his experience as a competitor in international hockey. After five game, Sinden took criticism for his team's performance after they were down 3-1-1 to the Soviets. He then led the Canadians to a memorable come-from-behind winning streak which was capped by Paul Henderson's game-winning goal with 34 seconds remaining in the final game.

As a general manager, Sinden managed to put top-notch teams on the ice in Boston, but he was also the subject of controversies ranging from video replays to salary arbitration. In the 1996-97 season, the NHL fined him 5,000 USD for verbal abuse towards video replay official Ian Sandercock after a goal was disallowed in the second period during a game between the Bruins and the Ottawa Senators. Two years later, he became the first general manager in league history to refuse arbitration for one of his players. That player was Dmitri Khristich , a 29-goal scorer who was awarded 2.8 million USD.

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Fred Creighton | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Head Coaches of the Boston Bruins
1980 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Gerry Cheevers

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Gerry Cheevers | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Head Coaches of the Boston Bruins
1985 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Butch Goring

External links

• Harry Sinden's entry at Legends of Hockey.net, where most of the information came from