Richard Kromm
Richard Gordon Kromm ( born March 29, 1964 in Trail, British Columbia, Canada ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and since July 2013 working as a head coach at the Stockton Thunder of the ECHL. During his career he played 408 games for the Calgary Flames and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League.
Career
Richard Kromm began his career as a hockey player with the Portland Winter Hawks, for whom he played in the Western Hockey League from 1981 to 1983. During this time he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 in the second round than a total of 37 players from the New York Islanders. At the beginning of the 1983/84 season Kromm was delivered to the Calgary Flames, where he had the following three seasons running. On March 11, 1986 Kromm was submitted along with Steve Konroyd in exchange for John Tonelli to the New York Islanders, of which he was four years ago already drafted.
For three years, played Kromm both for the Islanders, as well as their at that time the farm team of the American Hockey League, the Springfield Indians. After he started the 1989/90 season in the AHL squad of Indians, joined the attacker for the rest of the season to Leksand IF in the Swedish Elitserien.
After the year in Europe Kromm signed for another three years with the Islanders, in which, however, he came to the NHL team in only eight games for use. In the remaining games, he stood for the at that time the AHL farm team, the Capital District Islanders, on the ice.
In 1993, just after finishing his career as an active player, Kromm was an assistant coach with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League, where he remained in that position until 1995. During the season 1993/94 he was allowed to complete two games as interim coach of the Cyclones. From 1995 to 1997 Kromm the Carolina Monarchs trained from the American Hockey League as head coach. He was then in the 1997/98 season assistant coach for the Chicago Wolves of the International Hockey League. In his three years at Muskegon Fury of the United Hockey League from 1998 to 2001, he won the league title once in 1999 as a coach.
In the years 2002 to 2004, the Americans coached the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League. In the 2007 /08 season Kromm held the post as head coach of the Calgary League rivals, his former club Portland Winter Hawks held. After only eleven wins in 72 games, he was relieved at the Winter Hawks end of the season of the Office. For the season 2009/10 he was entrusted with the management of the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League, which he led to 51 wins in 76 games of the regular season. In August 2010, Kromm took over the duties of the head coach and general manager of the Evansville Icemen.
In July 2013 he was hired by the Stockton Thunder as head coach.