Robert Cimetta

Robert " Rob" Cimetta (* February 15, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who is in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs as well as in the German Ice Hockey League for the Adler Mannheim and Berlin Capitals played.

Playing career

The 1.83 m wide winger began his career with the Toronto Marlboros in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL before he selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 as 18th in the first round by the Boston Bruins ( drafted ) was.

In the 1988/89 season the links Sagittarius completed his first NHL inserts for Boston, he also played for the Maine Mariners, the former farm team the Bruins in the American Hockey League. In the following season the Canadians stood in 47 NHL games on the ice, scoring eight goals and nine assists. In November 1990 Cimetta was finally transferred from the Bruins in his hometown of Toronto at the Maple Leafs, where he completed 49 games in the next two years. However, he became increasingly more used in various farm team in the AHL and the IHL.

For the season 1994/95 Rob Cimetta moved to the newly founded DEL to Adler Mannheim, where he 192 season and play-off games completed until 1998, scoring 95 goals and 132 assists. Even today occupied Cimetta thus the fifth place in the team-internal doors, templates and points leaderboard. With the Eagles Cimetta 1997 and 1998 also won twice the German championship. His career ended the Canadians at the 2000 Berlin Capitals, for which he had already completed in the 1996/97 season eight games.

Internationally

Due to its strong performance in his last OHL season, he could finish as top scorer, Robert Cimetta was nominated for the 1989 Canadian junior national team for which he played seven games at the U20 World Cup in 1989.

Others

After finishing his sports career Cimetta worked for a U.S. financial firm Morgan Stanley. The attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center, he touched on the 61st floor of the South Tower, which was rammed as the second of the two towers of a hijacked plane. However, he was able to escape and was uninjured.

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 )