Peter Sidorkiewicz
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Peter Sidorkiewicz ( born June 29, 1963 in Dąbrowa Białostocka ) is a former Canadian- Polish ice hockey goaltender and current coach, who in his active period from 1980 to 1995, including for the Hartford Whalers, Ottawa Senators and New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League has played.
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Career
Peter Sidorkiewicz already wandered off as a teenager with his family to Canada. His career as a hockey player with the Oshawa Generals, he began, for the to 1984 he was active from 1980 in the junior league Ontario Hockey League. With the Generals he won in the 1982/83 season the J. Ross Robertson Cup and was selected the final tournament for the championship of the Canadian Hockey League in the All- Star team in the subsequent Memorial Cup. In addition, he received the Dave Pinkney Trophy for the lowest Gegentorschnitt the OHL. In the NHL Entry Draft 1981, the goalkeeper was selected in the fifth round as the 91st overall player of the Washington Capitals, for which he, however, never played. Instead, he was, after he started the 1984/85 season with the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League, issued on March 12, 1985 along with Dean Evason in exchange for David Jensen to the Hartford Whalers.
In his first four years in the franchise of the Hartford Whalers Sidorkiewicz played almost exclusively for their farm team, the Binghamton Whalers of the American Hockey League before he was towards the end of the 1987/88 season his debut in the National Hockey League for Hartford. In the following four seasons of the Polish-born stand regularly for the Hartford Whalers in the NHL between the posts, before he was hired on June 18, 1992 NHL Expansion Draft by the newly formed Ottawa Senators. In Ottawa, he played a good first season, after which he was nominated for the 1993 NHL All-Star Game.
In the summer of 1993 Sidorkiewicz moved to the New Jersey Devils, for which he only four games in the NHL completed in the next five years, while at their AHL farm team, the Albany River Rats, as well as the 1994/95 season in the remaining time his former club Fort Wayne Komets of the IHL spent. Following the 1997/98 season, he finished his playing career at the age of 34 years.
From 1999 to 2011 he worked for the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League. First, he spent seven years as an assistant coach before he was promoted to head coach of the Otters. During the season 2007/ 08 he was replaced in that position by Robbie Ftorek and then moved back into second place as assistant coach.
Internationally
For Canada, he took part in the 1989 World Series, where he won the silver medal with his team. As a substitute goalkeeper in the tournament, he came to use one.