Bobby Robins

Bobby Robins
Date of birth	17th October 1981
place of birth	Rhinelander , Wisconsin , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2001-2002	Tri-City Storm
2002-2006	University of Massachusetts Lowell
2006-2007	Binghamton Senators
2007-2008	Elmira Jackals
2008-2009	Belfast Giants
2009-2010	HK Jesenice
2010-2011	Bakersfield Condors
2011	Chicago Express
2011-2015	Providence Bruins

Robert Raymond "Bobby" Robins (* 17th October 1981 in Rhinelander , Wisconsin ) is a former American ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 2001 to 2015 including three games for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League in position of the right winger has denied. But he was mainly active in the minor leagues American Hockey League and ECHL as well as in Europe . Robins was considered the Enforcer type of player .

Career

Robins spent his junior years with the Tri-City Storm in the United States Hockey League , where he played in the 2001/02 season. He then studied for four years at the University of Massachusetts Lowell . There he played parallel for the university team in Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

The striker switched to the professional field without drafting in the summer of 2006 when he received a contract with the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League . There he spent the 2006/07 season in the squad of the farm team Binghamton Senators in the American Hockey League . In the preseason he had already played a few matches for the team with a trial contract. After one season, Robins moved to the ECHL to the Elmira Jackals . During the season he played on loan for the Rochester Americans , Syracuse Crunch and Albany River Rats in the AHL.

Bobby Robins in the Chicago Express jersey

In search of a new challenge, the American moved to Europe for the 2008/09 season . An initially agreed engagement with the Rødovre Mighty Bulls from the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen did not materialize due to financial difficulties on the part of the club. He therefore moved to Great Britain at short notice and ran there for the Northern Irish club Belfast Giants in the Elite Ice Hockey League . With the team he won the Challenge Cup and the Knock Out Cup during the season . After this very successful season, Robins moved to the Slovenian club HK Jesenice . With the team he won the Slovenian championship .

Despite its success in Europe, the Enforcer returned to North America in the summer of 2010. First he played there for the Bakersfield Condors and the following year for the Chicago Express in the ECHL, before he made offers from the Abbotsford Heat and Providence Bruins from the American Hockey League towards the end of the 2011 calendar year . At the Providence Bruins Robins was then part of the regular squad in the following seasons and even managed to get a contract with their cooperation partner Boston Bruins valid for the NHL before the 2013/14 season . The striker made his debut at Boston at the beginning of the 2014/15 season at the age of 32. Already in the first mission of three later missions, however, he suffered a head injury that made him announce his retirement from active sport after two more games for Providence in the AHL at the end of the game year.

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Challenge Cup win with the Belfast Giants
• 2009 Knock Out Cup win with the Belfast Giants
• 2010 Slovenian champion with the HK Jesenice
• 2011 ECHL All-Star Game

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season	1	3	0	0	0	14th
NHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL: Regular season	8th	282	22nd	37	59	833
AHL: playoffs	2	21st	2	1	3	99

Web links

• Bobby Robins at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Bobby Robins at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Leonard: Bobby Robins Retires at 33. The Providence folk hero retires after suffering post-concussion symptoms following his very first NHL game. stanleycupofchowder.com, July 9, 2015, accessed March 5, 2017 .