Bob Essensa

Robert Earle "Bob" Essensa ( born January 14, 1965 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and current coach, who in his active years from 1983 to 2002 among others for the Winnipeg Jets, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers Phoenix Coyotes, Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres played in the National Hockey League.

Career

Bob Essensa began his career as a hockey player in the team of Michigan State University, where he was active from 1984 to 1987. Even as a junior player he was previously selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the fourth round as a total of 69 players from the Winnipeg Jets, for whom he in the 1988/89 season his debut in the National Hockey League, announced after last year exclusively for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Moncton Hawks, was used. In the following five years, the goalkeeper played regularly with the Jets in the NHL, where he ran aground in the 1988/89 season in 22 games for the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League.

On March 8, 1994, he was discharged together with Sergei Bautin in exchange for Tim Cheveldae and Dallas Drake of the Detroit Red Wings, for which he, however, only 15 games until the end of the season completed in the NHL in 1993/94. From 1994 to 1996 Essensa played exclusively for the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, the San Diego Gulls and his former club Fort Wayne Komets of the IHL, as well as the Adirondack Red Wings of the AHL. On 14 June 1996, the Canadian was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers, in which he also had a regular place in the next three years, as with the Phoenix Coyotes, Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres, where he ever for one year under in the NHL contract was, before he ended his playing career after the 2001/02 season at the age of 37 years.

From 2005 to 2009 Essensa worked for the Boston Bruins as a goalkeeper coach.

Awards and achievements

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