Greg Poss
Greg Poss ( born May 6, 1965 in Green Bay, Wisconsin ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach, the Iserlohn Roosters, Nuremberg Ice Tigers and Adler Mannheim been trained in the German Ice Hockey League. From October 2004 to November 2005, he was national coach of the German national ice hockey team.
Career as a player
Greg Poss began his career at the Dubuque Fighting Saints in the United States Hockey League. He then played four years for the ice hockey team of the University of Wisconsin. In 1989 he made his professional debut in the American Hockey League for the Maine Mariners. After two seasons, he joined the International Hockey League with the Peoria Rivermen. After a serious knee injury, he had to end his playing career.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
Career as a coach
Club coach
By the early end of his playing career Greg Poss was already 25 years coach of Swedish club IK Olofström. Then he came to Germany, where he first Sonthofen and the EC Timmendorfer coached beach. With the Iserlohn Roosters, whom he coached from 1997 onwards, he went in 2000 in the DEL on. Despite the by far the smallest budget of the League Roosters missed under Poss 2002/ 03 only about a place in the play-offs. He was then selected as the "Best Coach of the DEL ." In Iserlohn it was 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001 voted coach of the year. The following season the Americans moved to the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. With them he won the 2003/ 04 and 2004/ 05 respectively 5th place as the successor of Stéphane Richer, he took over on 14 December 2005, the Adler Mannheim. After the 2005/06 play-offs were missed, Poss reached with the eagles 2006/ 07 is the double of cup win and championship. After a poor start and a losing streak, he was released on December 22, 2007 in Mannheim and replaced by Dave King. In 2010 he signed a two -year contract with the Florida Everblades, with those in the 2011/12 season for the first time Kelly Cup was won by the Americans.
Club Record
Germany coach
Since 1 October 2004 Poss supervised in a double feature the German national ice hockey team. After the end of the season 2004/2005 he resigned his position at the Ice Tigers. With the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB) he completed in early February 2005 from a permanent contract, although the previous results were not as positive. When Germany Cup 2004, they lost four times in four games and in a four - nation tournament in Budapest they lost Canada and Slovakia. A disgrace was prevented by a tight 4-3 victory over the host Hungary. In preparing for the 2005 World Cup it was better: Against the U.S. you missed with a 2:3 barely a surprise in Belarus you won even 4:1. At the World Cup, however, you could celebrate a victory in the first round, which is why you had in the relegation round. The German national team won there three points from three matches and climbed as Penultimate relegation in the B group from. Then, the criticism in the media was larger and there were rumors of a detachment of Poss. However Poss remained the DEB 's coach despite protests. The former assistant coach Ernst Höfner and Bernhard Englbrecht were replaced by Uwe Krupp and Klaus Merk. His contract was dissolved on 14 December 2005, a day later Uwe Krupp was announced as his successor.