Fabian Joseph
Gerard Fabian Joseph ( born December 5, 1965 in Sydney, Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. During his active career he played mainly in the American Hockey League and International Hockey League as well as internationally with Team Canada. Both at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 and at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he won the Canadian National Team, respectively the silver medal. Since 2007, Joseph has worked as assistant coach of the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Career
Joseph spent his youth first time at the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League, where he collected 228 points scorer in 153 games between 1982 and 1984. Consequently, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1984 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the sixth round at 109th place. Prior to the change in the professional field, the striker completed in the summer of 1984, first at another junior team. He went into the season 1984/85 for the Toronto Marlboros from Ontario Hockey League to the ice. In 60 matches, he came for the Marlboros to 75 points.
To change to the professional area, Joseph decided from 1985 for the Canadian Hockey Association Hockey Canada to play. This represented the Center at international appearances until 1987 without playing for another team. Only at the beginning of the season 1987/88 Joseph was taken from the franchise of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League contract. For their farm team Nova Scotia Oilers he ran on in the American Hockey League. The following two years until 1990 then for the Cape Breton Oilers, after the team had changed its location. For the farm teams of the Oilers he came in the three years on inserts 235 and 228 points.
In the summer of 1990, the attackers left the organization of the NHL teams and moved to Europe. There he joined the EV Bruneck from the Italian Serie A. The season 1990/91 - at the same time its only in Italy - he finished with 84 points in 36 games and was top scorer of the Wolves, who just avoided relegation to Serie B.
Then Joseph returned to Hockey Canada and prepared from the summer of 1991 intensively for the ice hockey tournament of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France before. There he came in eight tournament games on two goals and an assist. In the semi-final against Czechoslovakia, he was involved in two of the four Canadian goals. But in the final, the team defeated the United team with 1:3 and won the silver medal. After a brief stint at the EHC Chur in the Swiss National League A in the season 1992/93 Joseph returned immediately back to Hockey Canada. Again, the preparation began early on the ice hockey tournament of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. The striker was captain of the Olympic team that won silver again. In the final, it was inferior to Sweden in the shootout. The attacker prepared in the tournament before two goals.
After completion of the Olympic Winter Games, the Canadian returned to North America. He moved to the Milwaukee Admirals from International Hockey League, where he remained faithful until the spring of 1996. After 184 IHL games with 71 points, he ended his active career and took to season 1996/97, an assistant coaching job at the Admiral on. In 2000, he filled these posts, for one year at the Halifax Mooseheads in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League before it between 2001 and 2007 head coach of the hockey team from Dalhousie University who, in the Atlantic University Sport, a League of Canadian Interuniversity Sport were located, was. Since 2007 he is an assistant coach with the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League under head coach Danny Flynn.