Editing Rod Langway (section)

==Coaching career==
Langway served as player-coach for the [[San Francisco Spiders]] during their single season as an [[International Hockey League (1945–2001)|IHL]] team in 1995–1996. Langway began his career before helmets were mandatory and was the only member of the Spiders who played without a helmet under a league grandfather clause. He played without a helmet even while he was playing for the Washington Capitals and was normally the only player on the ice who was not wearing a helmet.

Langway was also an assistant coach under [[Tom McVie]] with the [[American Hockey League]]'s [[Providence Bruins]] during the 1997–98 season. He played in ten games that year to assist with on-ice development, during which time he was not granted an exemption to play without a helmet. Providence finished with a mere 19 victories that season, and Langway did not return the following year after McVie was reassigned to be a scout by the Boston organization.

During the 2003–04 season, Langway coached the [[Richmond Riverdogs]] expansion franchise in the [[United Hockey League]] to a division championship, and a first-round playoff loss to the [[Elmira Jackals]]. Team management did not extend Langway's contract after the first season.