Scott Hillman


Scott Hillman is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman. He was most recently the head coach of the ECHL's Indy Fuel.

Career

Player

Hillman was born in LaSalle, Ontario. After playing hockey in college for the University of Windsor, Hillman played professionally for the Toledo Storm of the ECHL, the Odessa Jackalopes of the Western Professional Hockey League and Central Hockey League, EV Duisburg of Oberliga, and the El Paso Buzzards of the Western Professional Hockey League. He also played roller hockey for the Buffalo Wings of both Roller Hockey International and Major League Roller Hockey.

Coach

After retiring from playing, Hillman became the head coach of the Knoxville Ice Bears of the Southern Professional Hockey League, winning both back-to-back regular season titles and league championships for both the 2007-08 season and 2008-09 season.
On June 2, 2009, Hillman was named the first head coach of the Missouri Mavericks of the Central Hockey League. In a 4-3 win against the St. Charles Chill on January 30, 2014, Hillman coached in his 300th Central Hockey League game. On May 21, 2014, Hillman resigned as head coach and director of player operations of the Mavericks to accept a coaching position with another team. A week later it was announced that Hillman would be the first coach of the new Indy Fuel of the ECHL.
On March 7, 2016 Hillman was relieved of his coaching duties by the Fuel and Bernie John was named interim head coach for the remainder of the 2015–16 season.
On June 7, 2018 he took the role as head coach for Norwegian GET-liga team Frisk Asker.

Awards and honours