David Pelletier, a former star of Canadian figure skating, will take his first steps as an assistant coach in the National Hockey League.
Dallas stars announced on Friday that Pelletier will join the team of the new head coach Glen Glen Gulutzan.
Originally from Sayabec, the 50 -year -old Quebecer occupied an instructor position focused on skating with EDMONTON Oilers for 11 years.
Pelletier had joined the oilers after a brilliant career in figure skating, marked by a gold medal in a couple with his partner Jamie Salé at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
In what has become one of the most important stories of these games, Pelletier and Salé had finished behind the Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. But when a French judge admitted having undergone pressures from his federation to promote the Russians, it sparked controversy.
Pelletier and Salé are then climbed on the highest step of the podium alongside Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze.
Pelletier and Salé also won a world title and three Canadian championships during their career and shared the Lou-Marsh (today Northern Star) trophy) as the best Canadian athletes in 2001.
Pelletier joins Alain Nasreddine (assistant coach), Neil Graham (Deputy Coach), Jeff Reese (goalkeeper coach), Patrick DOLAN (video coach) and Chris Demczuk (assistant video coach) with the stars.
Gulutzan, who has spent the last seven seasons as an assistant to Edmonton, has been appointed head coach of the stars on July 1, over to Peter Deboer, who was dismissed after the stars defeat against the Oilers in the West Association’s final for a second consecutive year.