# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-desjardins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:30:02.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-desjardins"
name: "Willie Desjardins"
slug: "willie-desjardins"
description: "Wilbrod \"Willie\" Desjardins is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and player. He is currently head coach and general manager of the WHL's Medicine Hat Tigers. He has also been the head coach of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks from 2014 to 2017 and the interim head coach for the Los Angeles Kings for the 2018–19 season. In July 2017, he was named head of the coaching staff for Canada's men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Desjardins_with_Calder_Cup_06-17-2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1957-02-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.35
  momentum:             1.248236953455571
  historical:           6.390753333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Дежарден, Уилли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Desjardins"
    title: "Willie Desjardins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فيلي ديسغاردين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فيلى ديسجاردين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Desjardins"
    title: "Willie Desjardins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Desjardins"
    title: "Willie Desjardins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villijs_De%C5%BEard%C4%93ns"
    title: "Villijs Dežardēns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump