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Ivan played a key role as chairman of the organizing committee for the 1979–80 Olympic Hockey
Festival, helping bring more than 90 players together for Coach Herb Brooks and his staff to pick from. Eventually that team became the 1980 US men's ice hockey team ("Miracle on Ice") that won the Gold
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doing it better). He took the reins as Black Hawks coach-general manager in 1954, after winning six straight regular-season championships with
Detroit. At the time the Hawks were a franchise in trouble. Ivan led a rebuilding effort, adding farm teams and stocking the Hawks' farm system with good
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was hired to coach the Hawks by Tommy Ivan and he would eventually guide the team to the 1961 Stanley Cup. The 1961 Hawks team produced the results that Ivan's rebuilding process began back in 1954. The Black Hawks also reached the
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in 1962, 1965, 1971, and 1973. Ivan served 25 years as Black Hawks GM and then served as the Black Hawks' vice-president and alternate governor (NHL Board of
Governors) in the years following his GM tenure.
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three times as a coach, and he did so on the strength of seven playoff appearances (second least among those coaches, with only
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Ivan served as chairman of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, and on the selection committee of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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immigrant parents. He never played professional hockey, as a severe facial injury shortened his career while playing in the
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prospects. He also made key trades that would help fortify the Hawks into a contending team for the next several seasons.
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in 1975 for "outstanding service to hockey in the United States."
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Medal at the 1980 Winter
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in 1961. He produced an overall record of 288–174–111.
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He died of complications of a kidney ailment in 1999.
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168:Stanley Cup
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121:Stanley Cup
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896:Categories
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620:References
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559:6th in NHL
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141:Macedonian
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