Rich Chernomaz
Richard " Rich" M. Chernomaz ( born September 1, 1963 in Selkirk, Manitoba ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player.
Career
As a player
Rich Chernomaz began his professional career in 1979 in the Western Hockey League with the Saskatoon Blades. After two years in the junior league, where he also played for the Victoria Cougars, he was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 at a total of 26 point. In 1981, he won the championship with the Cougars in the WHL. During the 1981/82 season, the center forward was first missions in the Rockies, but he could be in the NHL never establish himself as a regular player. So he spent the next few years alternating between the renamed New Jersey Devils Rockies, for which he received sporadic inserts, and their AHL farm team, the Maine Mariners. 1984 won Chernomaz with the Mariners the championship of the AHL, the Calder Cup. 1987 Chernomaz was transferred to the Calgary Flames, but even here he completed only a few games for the NHL team and came mainly in the IHL team in Salt Lake City for use. He always was one of the Topscorern, although he received as many criminal life, even with his previous stations. In the season 1987/88 he led the team to win the play-offs, a year later they again reached the final, but was defeated there in five games.
For the 1993/94 season he moved to the St. John 's Maple Leafs back in the AHL, where he played for two years and a new club record in terms of points per game scorer aufstellte on time. Due to its 110 points in the 1993/94 season he was also voted the best player of the year in the AHL. In 1995 he took part for the team Canada at the World Championships and won the bronze medal with the team. For the season 1995/96 he accepted an offer of Schwenningen Wild Wings from the DEL, where the attacker to always belonged to the Topscorern, but with whom he entered into the play- offs only in the first year. 1999 ended Chernomaz his active career.
Due to its hard and figure-hugging style of play Chernomaz received in the early years of his career nicknamed ax of Manitoba.
As a coach
The coaching career of Rich Chernomaz began even during his playing days as a player. From 1993 to 1995, he acted with the St. John 's Maple Leafs not only as a striker, but also as an assistant to the head coach Marc Crawford and Tom Watts. His first engagement as the main responsible coach, he took 1999 at the Schwenningen Wild Wings, which he coached for two years. For the season 2001 /02 he became assistant Lance Nethery at the Cologne Sharks. After his release in the spring of 2002, the Canadians took over the post of coach and led the KEC in the play-offs and the German Championship. However, as already Hans Zach was clear as coach of the Sharks to the 2002 / 03, Chernomaz joined the Augsburg Panthers and the 2003/04 season at the Frankfurt Lions. The Lions were relegated from the sporty DEL in the previous year, remained by the financially -related forced relegation of the Schwenningen Wild Wings but in the DEL.
Chernomaz surprisingly won in his first season in Frankfurt the title, his second championship as a coach. The following year, the Lions finished the preliminary round as a table first, but failed in the play-off semi-final at Mannheim. In the season 2005/ 06 Chernomaz missed with frankfurters the play-offs. When the Lions shortly before Christmas 2006 dismissed their manager Karl -Heinz Fliegauf, Chernomaz also took over its role; for the 2007/08 season was Dwayne Norris, as an active player under Chernomaz 2002 in Cologne and Frankfurt in 2004 German champions, new manager of the Lions. After excluding the insolvent Lions of the DEL before the start of the 2010/11 season Chernomaz took over shortly after the start of the season at ERC Ingolstadt the head coach position of the dismissed Greg Thomson. The end of 2012 Chernomaz was dismissed from the Ingolstadt engineers. In April 2013 he returned to his old stamping ground to Frankfurt, where he took over the position as sports director of the Frankfurt Lions.
Awards and achievements
Statistics as a player
- NHL: 51 games, 9 goals, 7 Assists, 18 penalty minutes
- DEL: 197 games, 74 goals, 163 templates, 596 penalty minutes
- AHL: 457 games, 167 goals, 243 templates, 716 penalty minutes
- IHL: 494 games, 226 goals, 324 templates, 1127 penalty minutes