Corey Schwab
Corey Schwab (born 4 November 1970 at North Battleford, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and current coach. During his career he played between 1995 and 2004 for the New Jersey Devils, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. He is currently a goalkeeping coach of the San Jose Sharks in the NHL as well as their farm team, the Worcester Sharks of the American Hockey League, active.
Career
Schwab was playing at the age of 18 years, first in the second class Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League with the North Battleford North Stars from his hometown. Even during the 1988/89 season took him the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League höherklassigen under contract. After one season as a substitute goalkeeper, in which he won 15 of his 27 games, he was in his final junior season in 1990/91 allocated to the regular place and came on more missions.
After he had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft well occupied in 1990 in the tenth round to 200th place by the New Jersey Devils, he joined in the summer of 1991 in the organization of the Devils. First he was for two years employed in the Utica Devils in the American Hockey League and Cincinnati Cyclones in the East Coast Hockey League and International Hockey League, without being able to draw attention to himself before starting the season 1993/94 on a regular basis at the Albany River Rats in the AHL was used. There he parted from the 1994/95 season the items in the port with Mike Dunham. Together they won this year the Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Award for the fewest goals in the regular season and led the River Rats to victory in the Calder Cup Finals, whereby both awarded the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs were. In the following season Schwab was promoted due to his consistent performances for the replacement of the NHL teams, came in the shadow of Martin Brodeur but rarely. To allow the Canadians the opportunity to more inserts Devils transferred him at the end of the 1995/96 season to the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he was indeed used more often, but not anknüpfte to previous achievements. Must After the meantime had way back in the minor leagues during his third season start and he could win in the season 1998/99, only eight of 40 games in the NHL, Schwab went unprotected by his team in the NHL Expansion Draft, 1999. There, he was elected from the newly formed Atlanta Thrashers, but charges him after a few missions in their farm team, the Orlando solar Bears of the IHL, in October 1999 to the Vancouver Canucks. In his two years with the Canucks Schwab played mainly for their farm team in the AHL and IHL and played only six games in the NHL. Therefore, in the summer of 2001, he joined as a free agent with the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he signed a one-year contract. As a substitute of Curtis Joseph he came on 30 missions and reached a Karrierebestmarke of twelve victories. Nevertheless, he returned to play the following year to the New Jersey Devils, with whom he was able to win the 2003 Stanley Cup. The 2003/04 season ended for Schwab at an early stage in mid-November, as he incurred a lengthy groin injury. The three games, which he completed in this season were also the last of his career.
After the lockout caused by the failure of the NHL season 2004/ 05 Schwab took in the summer of 2005 to the post of goalkeeper coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning. This he filled out a total of three seasons before the Lightning committed a new goalkeeping coach in the wake of change of ownership with Cap Raeder. Then the Canadians left the organization and accepted an offer from the San Jose Sharks in where he should relieve goalkeeper coach Wayne Thomas and take care of the education of the young goalkeeper.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )