Sean Simpson
Sean Simpson ( born May 4, 1960 in Essex, United Kingdom) is an ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. Since March 2010 he has been coach of the Swiss national ice hockey team.
Career
As a player
Sean Simpson began his career as a hockey player in the Ontario Hockey Association, where he for a year from 1976 to 1981 for the Kingston Canadians and finally four years for the Ottawa 67 's played first. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1980 in the seventh round as a total 141 players from the Chicago Blackhawks. In the season 1981/82 he was at their farm team in the American Hockey League, the New Brunswick Hawks on the ice. Since his contract was not renewed, he joined the following year the Springfield Indians.
In the summer of 1983, Simpson moved to Europe, where he played one season for the Tilburg Trappers of the Dutch Eredivisie, for which he was active for a short trip to the Zurich SC three more seasons. In his first season with the trapper, he was equal top scorer in the league. In the 1988/89 season Simpson stood for their league rivals, the Rotterdam Pandas, on the ice and for the second time in his career leading scorer in the Netherlands.
After each one of play for EHC Olten of the Swiss National League A and the HC Fiemme Cavalese from the Italian Serie A1 Simpson ended his playing career in 1991.
Internationally
With the Canadian National Team Simpson took part in the World Youth Championship in 1980 and finished fifth.
As a coach
After the end of his active career Simpson in 1999 she took the position as head coach of the newly founded Munich Barons from the German Ice Hockey League, with whom he same German champion was in the first season. After two years in Munich, Simpson was first also head coach of the relocated to Hamburg clubs, who played from 2002 as Hamburg Freezers. This he left in 2003. According to a commitment to EV train in the Swiss National League A, in which he was active as a coach already in the 1990s, Simpson took over in the summer of 2008, the coach of the ZSC Lions, with whom he 2009, the Champions Hockey League and the Victoria Cup won.
Simpson took over in February 2010 as the successor of Ralph Krueger, the coach of the Swiss national ice hockey team and led the national team in the wake closer to world class approach. On March 2, 2014 Sean Simpson announced his retirement after the 2014 World Cup known as Switzerland coach.
The following places reached Sean Simpson with the Swiss national team to the respective Tournaments:
Awards and achievements
AHL stats
Private
Sean Simpson lives with his family in Risch -Rotkreuz train in Canton in Switzerland.