Roy Sommer

Roy Sommer ( born April 5, 1957 in Oakland, California ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach. During his career, he graduated in the 1980/81 season three games for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League between 1995 and 1997 and was assistant coach of the San Jose Sharks. He is currently the head coach of the Worcester Sharks in the American Hockey League.

  • 3.1 As a player
  • 3.2 As a coach

Career

Summer began his hockey career in 1974 at the age of 17 years in the Alberta Junior Hockey League in Spruce Grove Mets, with whom he in his first season the Centennial Cup, the championship of the AJHL, won. After he had been a game for the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Western Canada Hockey League denied during his time with the Mets, took him to the 1975/76 season the Calgary Centennials of the WCHL under contract to which he remained faithful for two years before he moved to the senior level.

There, his first stop on the Saginaw Gears of the International Hockey League, were he but after twelve completed games in the game year 1976/77 due to a change to league rivals Dayton Owls, who moved in the course of the season to Grand Rapids in Grand Rapids Owls renamed had to leave. For the Owls, he played a further 45 matches in the season and nine more in the game year 1978/79, after he had spent the entire preseason with the Spokane Flyers in the Pacific Hockey League. Previously, he had already represented his country at the turn of 1976/77 at the Junior World Championships in Czechoslovakia and was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 in the sixth round to 101 place. During the season 1979/80 summer finally moved to the Central Hockey League with the Houston Apollos before he located in the following season 1980/81 Premier League rivals the Wichita Wind joined to their captain he was appointed first time.

This season, the trained Center also denied his only three games in the National Hockey League, having him on January 1, 1980, the Edmonton Oilers had taken as a free agent contract, as the Maple Leafs had shown no interest in commitment. Summer scored in the three games to score and received seven penalty minutes. After the interlude in Edmonton striker spent the next two seasons until the summer of 1983 at the Wichita Wind, though he had previously been taken in by the New Jersey Devils under contract. From the season 1983/84 he played for their farm team, the Maine Mariners, in the American Hockey League, with which he, like the Calder Cup, the championship trophy of the AHL, won. Even in the following year remained at the summer Mariners, but defending the title was missed. More stations to 1987 were the Indianapolis Checkers and Muskegon Lumberjacks, with whom he won the 1986 Turner Cup in the International Hockey League, before he at the age of 30 years finished his career as a player. In addition to his engagements with the NHL franchises in Toronto, Edmonton and New Jersey, he also played in the system of the St. Louis Blues and Pittsburgh Penguins.

With the beginning of the season 1987/88 summer worked for a year as assistant coach of the Muskegon Lumberjacks under head coach Rick Ley. At the same time he started at the University of Maine a lasting until 1991 Study, which later led him to the Indiana State University. Because of his studies, he was still working only in the season 1988/89 as an assistant to Peter Anholt at the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League before he lodged a two-year break. For the season 1991/92 the Americans took his first head coaching job at the Roanoke Valley Rebels of the East Coast Hockey League. This he left after only one year, when he was the league rival Richmond Renegades had contracted. After two streaky first summer seasons led the team in the game year 1994/95 to win the Riley Cup. He had also won in the course of the season with the appointment to head coach in one of the two All-Star teams. In the summer months, summer grudged no break and served between 1994 and 1996 at the same time as the head coach of the San Jose Rhinos, an inline hockey team of Roller Hockey International. These he led in 1995 to winning the Murphy Cup and, in 1996, also nominated as head coach of an All-Star team. Similarly successful was also the adjoining the title win in the ECHL season. Then he led the Renegades with the best season record of all teams in the playoffs, he oversaw again one of the All-Star team and was also named the best coach in the league. However, he missed the team's successful title defense.

Summer successful work at the Richmond Renegades and the San Jose Rhinos was both the franchises of the National Hockey League and the American Association has not gone unnoticed. After the engagements in Richmond and San Jose terminated in 1996, took him from the San Jose Sharks in the NHL under contract. At the same time also showed the U.S. federation, was looking for a head coach for the inline hockey team, interest in him. This he conducted between 1996 and 1998 at three IIHF Inline Hockey World Championships to two gold medals and one silver medal. In San Jose, he worked in the 1996/97 season as an assistant coach Al Sims, who was replaced the following year by Darryl Sutter. Summer time at the Sharks ended in the summer of 1998, when Sutter left undertake new wizard. Since the management of San Jose but did not want to do without the services of the summer, he became the head coach of the Kentucky Thoroughblades, San Jose damaligem farm team in the American Hockey League, promoted. Total charge of the summer Thoroughblades three game years, she led every year in the playoffs and won the 2000 and 2001 each have a division title. These results honored the league administration in January 2000 with the appointment as head coach in the AHL All-Star Classic.

According to the 2000 /01 season, the franchise of Kentucky moved to Cleveland and played from now on under the name Cleveland Barons continued in the AHL. While summer was their head coach and Cleveland in cooperation with the Sharks, but in the five years of the existence of the team only once managed a win rate of over 50 per cent and qualify for the playoffs. For the 2006/07 season the team settled again, this time to Worcester in Massachusetts. There, the team adopted the name Worcester Sharks. The Americans continued to coach the franchise despite the less successful time in Cleveland. Currently, the longest in office located head coach of the American Hockey League is. Since the season 2002/ 03 he worked with his assistant coach David Cunniff along behind the gang.

On February 11, 2012 Summer reached another milestone in his coaching career with the 500th career victory in the American Hockey League. This was in the history of the League previously only Bun Cook, Frank Mathers and John Paddock succeeded.

Awards and achievements

As a player

As a coach

Internationally

Career Stats

As a player

( 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 )

As a coach

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