Jeff Brubaker
Jeffrey Joseph Brubaker ( born February 24, 1958 in Hagerstown, Maryland ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1974 to 1989 among others for the Hartford Whalers, Canadiens de Montréal, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple leafs, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Jeff Brubaker began his career as a hockey player in the youth team St. Paul Vulcans, for which he was active from 1974 to 1976. Then he visited shortly Michigan State University, for their hockey team he played in parallel in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, however the Peterborough Petes closed during the 1976/77 season of the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey Association at, for which he long one and a half years aground. He was then in the sixth round as a total 102 players selected in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1978 by the Boston Bruins, for whom he never played, however. Instead, the winger was in the 1978/79 season for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League debut in professional hockey. Opposite end of the season he moved to the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association. The WHA presented at the end of the season a game operation and the New England Whalers as Hartford Whalers changed in the National Hockey League. In the NHL the links Sagittarius came in the 1979/80 season to three inserts for Hartford, spent most of the season but at the Springfield Indians in the AHL. In the 1980/81 season he was used in half of all games in the NHL team the Hartford Whalers, while he had to spend with their AHL farm team Binghamton Whalers the rest of the time.
From 1981 to 1983 Brubaker ran on in the AHL for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. For their cooperation partners Canadiens de Montréal, he came in this period only a total of five missions in the NHL. During the 1983/84 season he joined as a regular player for the Colorado Flames in the Central Hockey League, where he stood in parallel also for their NHL partner Calgary Flames in four games on the ice. For the 1984/85 season of Americans has been committed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he completed his only full NHL season. In 68 games, he scored eight goals and four assists. In Toronto, he also began the following season as a regular player, before their NHL league rival Edmonton Oilers acquired his transfer rights. In this he was only sporadically to inserts in the NHL and spent the most time in the AHL farm team Nova Scotia Oilers. The 1986/87 season he finally finished with the Hershey Bears of the AHL. For the 1987/88 season he was engaged by the New York Rangers, for whom he scored two goals in the NHL in 31 games. The rest of the time he spent at their farm team Colorado Rangers in the International Hockey League. Most recently, he competed in the 1988/89 season for the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL, for which he denied, however, only a single game. He spent the entire rest of the season as a regular player at their farm team Adirondack Red Wings of the AHL. Then he ended his active career at the age of 31 years.
From 1989 to 1995 Brubaker served as head coach of the Greensboro Monarchs of the ECHL. With these, he won in the 1989/90 season the Riley Cup. In the 1994/95 season he failed with the Monarchs until the playoff finals. The same happened to him in the following season with the ECHL league rival Jacksonville Lizard Kings. In between, he also had the Orlando Jackals care from professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International. In the 1996/97 season he led the San Antonio Dragons of the IHL in the second playoff round. For the 1998/99 season he the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks joined from the ECHL, with whom he also missed the playoffs, as in the following two years with their league rivals Greensboro Generals. Most recently, he was in the 2004/05 season at the Asheville Aces of the Southern Professional Hockey League behind the band, with which he again missed the playoffs.