Dan Ratushny
Daniel Paul Ratushny ( born October 29, 1970 in Nepean, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. Since the 2011/12 season he has been head coach at the Straubing Tigers.
Career
As a player
During his college days, where he played from 1988 to 1991 for the Cornell University, Ratushny was a member of the Canadian national team, which consisted of only amateur players at the time. With it, he took part in the 1988 and 1991 Spengler Cup and won at the Olympic Winter Games in 1992 the silver medal. At the end of the 1991/92 season the defender played two games for the Swiss national league team EHC Olten. Ratushny played the following year at the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League, with whom he won the championship. A year later, the defender signed a two-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League, for whom he played a game. The rest of the season was Ratushny active in the Hamilton Canucks, a farm team of Vancouver, in the American Hockey League. In the 1994/95 season the right shooter returned to the Fort Wayne Komets, the contract with the Canucks was dissolved. A year later Ratushny played for the Carolina Monarchs in the AHL, but changed during the season back in the IHL to the Peoria Rivermen. In the season 1996/97 he moved within the league the club and played for the Rafales de Québec. During the second season Ratushny left the Rafales and hired the AHL Albany River Rats team on. After a year in Albany return followed in the IHL with the Kansas City Blades, for which he laced up skates in the 1998/99 season.
1999 hired Ratushny to the Japanese Club Seibu Tetsudo Tokyo, where he won the championship in the Japan Ice Hockey League. After one season, he left Japan and moved to Europe, where he played in the 2000/ 01 season with HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish SM- liiga. For the third time in his career, the defender in 2000 was appointed the Spengler Cup in the team Canada. In the season 2002/ 03 Ratushny graduated five games for the Ayr Scottish Eagles in the British Challenge Cup in the same season of the right shooter ran for the Dundee Stars in the British National League. After a two year hiatus, his last stop was as a player of IK Pantern in the third highest Swedish league Division 1
As a coach
Ratushny began his coaching career in 2009 at the EHC Olten of the Swiss National League B. First he had signed a one-year contract, which he prolonged for a season. After two years in Switzerland, he made use of an exit clause and signed with the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.