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Davis Payne is in his first season as an assistant coach with the Kings. He was hired on July 27, 2012.
Payne most recently was the head coach of the St. Louis Blues. The native of Kamloops, British Columbia, and former NHL forward had a 67-55-15 record with the Blues (.544 winning percentage). Payne made his NHL head coaching debut on January 2, 2010 and he won his first NHL game on January 9, 2010 (at Los Angeles). He was relieved of his coaching duties 13 games into the 2011-12 season (November 6, 2011).
Payne has also served as a head coach in both the American Hockey League and the ECHL. He spent a season and a half coaching the Peoria Rivermen (St. Louis AHL affiliate) and in 2008-09 as a rookie head coach in the AHL he guided the Rivermen to a 43-31-2-4 record and returned Peoria to the postseason for the first time in three years. Payne first joined the Rivermen as an assistant coach in 2007-08.
Before that, Payne experienced seven seasons behind the bench as a head coach in the ECHL. In four seasons as head coach of the Alaska Aces (2003-04 to 2006-07), he had a winning percentage of .691. He led the Aces to 53 regular season wins and the ECHL Kelly Cup Championship in 2005-06. Payne took the Aces to the Conference Finals in three of his four seasons in Alaska and he was named the ECHL Coach of the Year following the 2006-07 campaign.
Payne also served as a head coach of the Pee Dee Pride from 2000-01 to 2002-03. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the ECHL’s Greenville Grrrowl in 2000-01 before being named head coach as a mid-season replacement with Pee Dee later that same season.
A graduate of NCAA Division I Michigan Tech, Payne, 42 (9-24-71), appeared in 22 NHL games with the Boston Bruins from 1995-97 and played a total of eight professional seasons in the AHL (with Rochester and Providence), International Hockey League (with Phoenix and San Antonio) and ECHL (with Greensboro and Greenville). He was originally drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the seventh-round (140th overall) in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft.
Davis and his wife, Jane, have two daughters: Allison and Lydia.
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