Ted Sator
Ted Sator ( born November 18, 1949 in New Hartford, New York ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach.
Career
Ted Sator began his career as a hockey player in the team of the Bowling Green State University, which he attended from 1969 to 1972 and for which he was active in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Then the winger received a contract with the Long Iceland Ducks of the Eastern Professional Hockey League. For this he gave in the 1972/73 season in three games one assist. Subsequently, however, he had to end his career due to a serious knee injury.
After he was in the 1982/83 season committed as a scout by the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, he was given the opportunity in the next two years to work as an assistant coach for the NHL team. Then he managed to jump to the head coach. From 1985 to 1989 he was in each case for two seasons primarily responsible for the NHL teams of the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. He then moved back into second place and also looked after two years as assistant coach the Boston Bruins.
In the summer of 1991 Sator went to Europe, where he spent two years as head coach of HC Milan of the Italian Serie A1. In both seasons, he led his team to win the national championship. This was followed for the Americans to return to the NHL, where he worked in the following four seasons for the NHL teams the St. Louis Blues, Hartford Whalers and Vancouver Canucks assistant coach. Parallel to his work with the Canucks, he worked in the 1996/97 season also for their at that time the farm team, the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League (also known as co-trainer ).
From 1997 to 2002 oversaw the Sator New Orleans Brass of the ECHL in the entire five years of its existence as a head coach. He then returned to Europe, where he led the Espoo Blues of the Hungarian representative Alba Volán Székesfehérvár in the Austrian Hockey League coaching mainly responsible from 2002 to 2004 in the Finnish SM- liiga, and from 2007 to 2009. In November 2009, he was head coach of the Croatian EBEL rookie KHL Medveščak Zagreb after a short time before the Canadian Enio Sacilotto had to leave his post prematurely. In 2011 he left the KHL again and was coach at Lindenwood University.
Internationally
Ted Sator supervised at the World Championships in 1996 as an assistant coach the U.S. national hockey team. With this he won the bronze medal here. In the B World Cup 2007 with Slovenia, he managed to climb into the A World Championship. However, he left the team after this success. At the World Championship Division I in 2010 and 2011 he was the head coach of the national team of Hungary in the gang.