John Gruden was born in the year 1970 and he is a former professional who played ice hockey defenseman and he is of American nationality. He is a head coach for Flint Firebirds for Ontario Hockey League or OHL. He was drafted on 168th in the overall NHL Entry Draft of 1990 and joined Boston Bruins. He played for Bruins, Washington Capitals and Ottawa Senator. He participated into over 92 regular season games and he scored one goal with eight assists together with nine points while collecting the 46 penalty minutes. He had also the spell in Deutche Eishockey Liga of Germany in the Eisbaren Berlin. In the early 1980s, he was playing the high school hockey in the Minnesota state in the Hastings city.
John Gruden worked like assistant coach of Detroit Little Caesars AAA hockey club where he was the coach of the Squirt 2000 Squad. He coached for a short time the Brother Rice JV prep Squad when he was training for the fists for Forward Patrick VanDusen. He had spent some time while working on Red Wings Alumni Association. He was also the coach of Stoney Greek High School hockey team called Cougar in Michigan State in the Rochester together with a NHL alumnus called Greg Johnson. The last work he had was playing as the assistant coach for a USA Hockey National Team Development Program. He was helping United States to get gold medal of 2014 IIHF World U18 Championship.
From his biography, in 2015, he announced that he is going to serve like inaugural head coach of Flint Firebirds for Ontario Hockey League in its 2015-16 seasons. Because of the event that was highly publicized, he got fired for at least a month within the season. The report claims that he had to be fired since he did not want to increase the playtime of a defenseman called Hakon Nilsen who is the son of the team owner. However the president of the team Costa Papista said that such reports are not true. After the player walkout that was successful, he got reinstated as the head coach of Firebirds and was given the extension of his contract for 3 years more.
After the game John Gruden played with Bruins, he looked solid and during the time that the lockout has been shortened in the year 1995. He started a new season in minors and he is a talented rearguard and he had to be recalled by the Boston near the end of the schedule. He was solid in the 14 regular seasons and he played three playoff games.
John Gruden has no report about his private life and things about him like being married or if he has a wife or not cannot be gotten anywhere and it is not clear if he has a twitter account or not. His net worth or salary is not also disclosed.
| Birth Date: | 17 Aug, 1963 |
| Age: | 56 yrs |
| Occupations: | American football player Head coach |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Sandusky |
| Education: | Clay High School Muskingum University University of Dayton |
| Gender: | Male |
| Twitter Id: | GrudenCamp |
| Net Worth 2021: | 30 million |
