Robbie Ftorek

Brian Robert " Robbie" Ftorek ( born January 2, 1952 in Needham, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach, who from 1973 to 1985 for the Detroit Red Wings, Quebec Nordiques and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and the Phoenix Roadrunners and Cincinnati Stingers in the World Hockey Association played.

Career

At 20, he was inducted into the U.S. Hockey National Team. Together with Mark Howe and Craig Sarner won the silver medal team at the Olympic Winter Games in 1972 in Sapporo. In the B World Cup in Romania but you missed despite good performances from Ftorek promotion to the A group.

For the 1972/73 season he was engaged by the Detroit Red Wings, arrived in the NHL only to sporadic operations. Mostly he played for the Virginia Wings in the American Hockey League.

In the season 1974/75 he moved to the World Hockey Association with the Phoenix Roadrunners. Again he started in farm team at the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League. He soon made ​​the jump to the Roadrunners and he lacked only nine points to best scorer in Phoenix to become. He succeeded already in the 1975/76 season and in the 1976/77 season he was with 117 points even the best scorer in the league. For his national team he played in the 1976 Canada Cup and was elected there to the MVP of the American team.

In the WHA he was elected MVP in 1977 and so it was no problem for him to find after the dissolution of the Roadrunners a new team. Even with the Cincinnati Stingers he was one of the stars, and was in both 1977/ 78 and in the following year, the best scorer of the team.

With resolution of the WHA Quebec Nordiques picked him. Again, he was one of the most successful scorer and captain. In 1981, he again played the Canada Cup. Over the 1981/82 season he was delivered to the New York Rangers. Particularly strong was his performance in the playoffs in 1982 when the Rangers local rivals, the New York Islanders would have put in the second round almost on the way to their third Stanley Cup in a row leg.

After the 1984/85 in which it was only used sporadically in the NHL season, he finished his NHL career and took over the post of player coach with the New Haven Nighthawks in the AHL. From the summer of 1986 then he just stood still behind the gang. During the season 1987/88 he took over the coaching job with the Los Angeles Kings from Rogatien Vachon and was also in the 1988/89 season, when Wayne Gretzky came to the Kings behind the gang.

From 1989 he was with the Quebec Nordiques. At first, he coached the AHL farm team, the Halifax Citadel, and from 1990 he was an assistant coach in the NHL. Also as an assistant, he joined in the 1991/92 season to the New Jersey Devils. Here he took over in 1992, the farm team in the AHL. After a year he moved to the Utica Devils of the Albany River Rats with whom he could Calder Cup 1995 win. 1996, it was brought him back as an assistant to Jacques Lemaire to the Devils and in the 1998/99 season, he took over the position of head coach. He was replaced by Larry Robinson. In the 2000 /01 season, he took over the Boston Bruins and was nominated in 2002 for election to the Jack Adams Award. In 2003 he returned for three seasons with the Albany River Rats. For the season 2007/ 08 Ftorek became the new head coach of the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League. After its premiere season in the playoffs have been missed, the team achieved in the following three seasons, the final round, but did not progress beyond the first round. During the 2012/13 OHL season, he was after 27 games, in which the team was able to win only seven, released by the Otters.

In 1991, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

Statistics

Sporting successes

  • Olympic Silver Medal: 1972
  • Calder Cup: 1995 as manager
  • Stanley Cup: 2000 as a coach / scout

Personal Awards

  • WHA First All -Star Team: 1977 and 1979
  • WHA Second All-Star Team: 1976 and 1978
  • Gordie Howe Trophy: 1977
  • Louis A. R. Pieri Award: 1995 and 1996
  • Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1999 and 2002 as assistant coach
Needham (Massachusetts) Phoenix Roadrunners (WHA) 1972–73 NHL season 1974–75 WHA season 1975–76 WHA season 1976–77 WHA season 1977–78 WHA season 1981 Canada Cup 1981–82 NHL season 1984–85 NHL season 1987–88 NHL season 1988–89 NHL season Halifax Citadels 1991–92 NHL season 1998–99 NHL season 2000–01 NHL season 2012–13 OHL season Frank Patrick (ice hockey) Cooney Weiland Georges Boucher Harry Sinden Tom Johnson (ice hockey) Don Cherry Fred Creighton Butch Goring Brian Sutter Steve Kasper Pat Burns Mike Keenan Mike Sullivan (ice hockey, born 1968) Dave Lewis (ice hockey) Claude Julien (ice hockey) Peter Chiarelli (ice hockey)
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