Bob Essensa

Bob Essensa
Date of birth	January 14, 1965
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1983 , 4th lap, 69th position Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
1983-1987	Michigan State University
1987-1988	Moncton Hawks
1988-1994	Winnipeg Jets
1994	Detroit Red Wings
1994-1995	San Diego Gulls
1995-1996	Fort Wayne Comet
1996-1999	Edmonton Oilers
1999-2000	Phoenix Coyotes
2000-2001	Vancouver Canucks
2001-2002	Buffalo Sabers

Robert Earle "Bob" Essensa (born January 14, 1965 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and current coach who worked for the Winnipeg Jets , Detroit Red Wings , Edmonton Oilers , Phoenix Coyotes , Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabers have played in the National Hockey League .

Career

Bob Essensa began his career as a hockey player in the Michigan State University team , for which he was active from 1984 to 1987. As a junior player, he was previously selected in the fourth round of the 1983 NHL Entry Draft as the 69th player in total by the Winnipeg Jets , for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1988/89 season , after he had been exclusively for the previous year whose farm team from the American Hockey League , the Moncton Hawks , was used. In the following five years, the goalkeeper played regularly with the Jets in the NHL, where he also ran up in the 1988/89 season in 22 games for the Fort Wayne Comets from the International Hockey League .

On March 8, 1994 he was given together with Sergei Bautin in exchange for Tim Cheveldae and Dallas Drake to the Detroit Red Wings , for which he completed only 15 games until the end of the 1993/94 season in the NHL. From 1994 to 1996 Essensa played exclusively for the farm teams of the Detroit Red Wings, the San Diego Gulls and his ex-club Fort Wayne Komets from the IHL, as well as the Adirondack Red Wings from the AHL. On June 14, 1996, the Canadian was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers , where he had a regular place in the following three years, as well as the Phoenix Coyotes , Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabers , where he was each in the NHL for a year Contract was before he ended his active career following the 2001/02 season at the age of 37.

From 2005 to 2009 Essensa worked for the Boston Bruins as a goalkeeping coach.

Achievements and Awards

• 1985 CCHA First All-Star Team
• 1986 CCHA Second All-Star Team
• 1990 NHL All-Rookie Team

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Victories	Defeats	draw	Shutouts
Regular season	12	446	173	176	47	18th
Playoffs	6th	16	4th	9	0	0

Web links

• Bob Essensa at hockeydb.com (English)
• Bob Essensa at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Bob Essensa at hockeygoalies.org