Terry Yake

Terry Donald Yake ( born October 22, 1968 in New Westminster, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who from 1988 to 2001 for the Hartford Whalers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Toronto Maple Leafs, St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals played in the National Hockey League.

Career

Terry Yake began his career with the Brandon Wheat Kings, for whom he played from 1984 to 1988 for four years in the Western Hockey League. During this time he was in the fourth round as a total 81 players selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 by the Hartford Whalers. He played the next five years, both for the Hartford Whalers in the NHL, as well as for their farm team of the American Hockey League, the Binghamton Whalers and the Springfield Indians.

During the NHL Expansion Draft 1993, the newly formed Mighty Ducks of Anaheim committed to Canadians. Although Yake was used in all 82 games of the regular season, he was released on 28 September 1994 in exchange for David Sacco on the Toronto Maple Leafs. This lent him to the Denver Grizzlies of the International Hockey League, so he played only 19 games for the Maple Leafs. During the season 1995/96, the attacker was exclusively for the Milwaukee Admirals of the IHL on the ice.

Although it took the Buffalo Sabres in 1996 as a free agent contract, but he came in the 1996/97 season exclusively for their at that time the AHL farm team, the Rochester Americans used. By 2001 Yake played two and a half years with the St. Louis Blues and a half years with the Washington Capitals before he finished his NHL career and moved to Europe, where he and 2001-2004 respectively one season with the mosquitoes eating, Nuremberg Ice Tigers the Krefeld penguins of the DEL completed. After a long break Yake played from the 2005/06 season when EHC Visp in the Swiss National League B.

In the 2008 /09 season he was awarded by the Swiss NLB Club Lausanne HC in the role of player coach as a replacement for the ejected Corry Pecker. In early 2009 he replaced Dany Gelinas as coach of Lausanne Hockey Club. During the 2009/10 season Yake was replaced by John Van Boxmeer.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

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