Ross Yates
Ross Richard Yates ( born June 18, 1959 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach.
Career
Yates played in his youth for the Mount Allison University in the CIAU until he joined the 1980/81 season his career at the Binghamton Whalers in the AHL began. During his active sporting season in Binghamton, he won in the 1982/83 season, both the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as well as the Les Cunningham Award and the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award. Although he then moved during the season 1983/84 to the Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League, denied there but only seven games until he joined the following season after Germany moved to Mannheim ERC.
Its active time as a player, he finished in Italy at second division HC Auronzo after he had previously played in the National League A in 1986 and 1992 for the EHC Kloten, where he was also active as a secondary player-coach.
Yates began his career as a coach at EC Kassel in the 2nd Hockey League. With Kassel he reached in the 1993/94 season the second division runner-up title and thus qualified for the newly founded German Hockey League. For the first time, he managed to bring the Hockey Club of Northern Hesse, who was subsequently renamed in Kassel Huskies, in the highest German league. In the first two years of the DEL, he also qualified with the " Huskies " for the play-off quarter-finals. In the season 1996/97 he served as head coach at the Italian club HC Gherdeina.
For the 2000/01 season Yates moved back to North America in the AHL with the Syracuse Crunch, where he worked as an assistant coach until 2006 and from 2006 to 2010 was as head coach of the gang behind the Syracuse Crunch.