Colin Muller

Colin Muller
Date of birth	December 1, 1963
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	177 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1984	HC Lugano
1984-1986	EHC Basel
1986-1999	EV train
1999-2000	Friborg-Gottéron
2000-2001	EHC Seewen

Colin Muller (born December 1, 1963 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian - Swiss ice hockey coach . He is the assistant coach of the Swiss women's national team.

Player career

Muller grew up in Scarborough in the Toronto area. At the age of 19 he came to Switzerland and played for HC Lugano . Muller originally envisioned staying in the country for just one year and then continuing his studies in Canada. From 1984 he played for the EHC Basel in the National League B , in 1986 he switched to EV Zug . With the EVZ, he was promoted to the National League A in his first season . He was to remain loyal to the club for 13 years and become Swiss champion in 1998. Muller temporarily served as assistant captain. He moved to HC Friborg-Gottéron in 1999 , finally ended his playing career and started his coaching career. He completed a total of 544 games in the NLA and scored 203 goals.

Coaching career

His first station was in 1999/2000 HC Friborg-Gottéron , where he also played and formed a coaching team with Hans Kossmann . The two led the team into the playoffs, but received no contract extension at the end of the season.

Then Muller worked from 2000 to 2002 at SC Rapperswil-Jona on the side of Russian Evgeni Popichin , in the 2002/03 season again for a few months at HC Friborg-Gottéron.

For the 2003/04 season he accepted the offer from EV Zug . There he became the assistant coach of Sean Simpson , under whom Muller had played (among other things during the 1997/98 championship season) at the EVZ. The two worked together in Zug until 2008 and then for two more years at the ZSC Lions . When Simpson became the Swiss national coach in 2010, Muller was promoted to head coach at ZSC. However, his tenure lasted only 16 games in the 2010/11 season, from which the Lions took 20 points under his leadership. That did not meet the expectations of those responsible, who dismissed Muller and his assistant Bob Leslie and hired the Swede Bengt-Åke Gustafsson .

Muller is part of the coaching staff of the Swiss national team as assistant to Sean Simpson at the 2011 World Cup. For the 2011/12 season Muller head coach when was EHC Olten in the National League B . At the end of December 2011 he was released there. His team had previously suffered four defeats in a row and was sixth in the table at the time of dismissal.

He then worked for the Swiss federation, once again acted as an assistant to the national team and also took on tasks in the junior division: at the 2014 U20 World Cup, he was the head coach of the “Nati”. At the World Championships in 2013 (when Switzerland won silver) and 2014 and at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, Muller was Simpsons assistant again. The team went on common paths in the years that followed. Simpson and Muller accepted an offer from Lokomotive Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and took the position in July 2014. In September of that year, both were sacked after just nine games.

Muller followed Simpson in December 2014 to the Kloten Flyers (NLA), again in the constellation Simpson as head coach, Muller as assistant. In May 2016, his contract with Kloten was terminated after the club was taken over by a new owner and financial cuts were announced. Shortly thereafter, Muller was signed by Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) as an assistant coach. He also works with Simpson in Mannheim. On December 4, 2017, Muller, Simpson and manager Teal Fowler in Mannheim were dismissed due to the "disappointing performances and the latest results," as the club announced. At the beginning of February 2019, Muller became an assistant coach for the Swiss women's national team.

Achievements and Awards

• 1987 Promotion to National League A with EV Zug (as a player)
• 1998 Swiss champions with EV Zug (as a player)
• Silver medal at the 2013 World Cup (as assistant coach)

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1984/85	EHC Basel	NLB		39	31	15th	46
1985/86	EHC Basel	NLB		34	20th	15th	35	31		2	0	2	2	0
1986/87	EV train	NLB		32	11	21st	32	52		6th	6th	1	7th	8th
1987/88	EV train	NLA		36	12	9	21st	28
1988/89	EV train	NLA		36	14th	13	27	55		3	0	0	0	2
1989/90	EV train	NLA		35	24	30th	54	43		2	0	3	3	2
1990/91	EV train	NLA		36	11	15th	26th	22nd		3	1	1	2	2
1991/92	EV train	NLA		35	12	3	15th	39		5	3	1	4th	12
1992/93	EV train	NLA		36	20th	18th	38	40		5	0	0	0	6th
1993/94	EV train	NLA		36	14th	7th	21st	12		9	3	1	4th	10
1994/95	EV train	NLA		30th	9	15th	24	12		12	8th	2	10	12
1995/96	EV train	NLA		35	19th	10	29	20th		9	6th	2	8th	6th
1996/97	EV train	NLA		34	1	8th	9	8th		10	4th	3	7th	2
1997/98	EV train	NLA		38	14th	18th	32	16		20th	4th	2	6th	14th
1998/99	EV train	NLA		45	16	9	25th	12		11	3	3	6th	12
1999/00	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		23	8th	5	13	8th
2000/01	EHC Seewen	1st League		3	1	4th	5	2
NLA total				455	174	170	344	315		89	32	18th	50	80
NLB total				108	62	51	113	83		8th	6th	3	9	8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Colin Muller at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Colin Muller wanted poster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ update AG, www.update.ch: Stadtanzeiger Olten: “The balance is important”. In: www.stadtanzeiger-olten.ch. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Muller Colin. In: evz.ch. Retrieved March 21, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Simpson assistant becomes ZSC head coach. In: tagesanzeiger.ch/. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Colin Muller: «I am very disappointed». In: Freiburger Nachrichten - News from Freiburg. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Blick: Colin Muller is the new head coach - Blick. In: www.blick.ch. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
6. ↑ ZSC trainer Colin Muller is fired. In: az Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Muller and Jost assist Simpson. In: tagesanzeiger.ch/. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Ex-Nati assistant coach Colin Muller is the coach of the EHC Olten. In: az Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
9. ↑ EHC Olten dismisses trainer Colin Muller. In: Solothurner Zeitung. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
10. ^ U20 national team with 26 men to Sweden. (No longer available online.) Live-wintersport.com, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on March 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Bitter end for Simpson in Russia. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Bang in Kloten: Simpson replaces Hollenstein. In: zol.ch. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Press release 020516 - EHC Kloten. (No longer available online.) In: EHC Kloten. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Sean Simpson has "gone under". In: az Limmattaler Zeitung. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
15. ↑ DEL: Simpson is the new Adler trainer. In: Spiegel Online . May 11, 2016, accessed December 6, 2017 . 
16. ^ Adler split up with Fowler, Simpson and Muller
17. ↑ Nati féminine: Colin Muller new assistant. Retrieved February 3, 2019 (Swiss French).