Craig Sarner

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United StatesUnited States  Craig Sarner Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 20, 1949
place of birth St. Paul , Minnesota , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1968-1971 University of Minnesota
1971-1972 USA hockey
1972 Oklahoma City Blazers
1972-1974 Boston Braves
1974-1975 Rochester Americans
1975 Boston Bruins
1975-1976 Minnesota Fighting Saints
1976-1988 Cologne EC
1978-1979 Berlin ice skating club
1979-1982 HC Davos

Craig Brian Sarner (born June 20, 1949 in St. Paul , Minnesota ) is a former American ice hockey player and coach who worked for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League as well as the Cologne EC and Berlin from 1971 to 1982 Schlittschuhclub in the hockey Bundesliga played.

Career

After his junior years at the University of Minnesota , Sarner was recruited by the US hockey association USA Hockey for the Olympic selection. Together with Mark Howe and Robbie Ftorek , the team won the silver medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan . At the B World Championship in Romania in the same year, however, the Americans missed promotion to the A group. In the following years he played in the American Hockey League for the Boston Braves and the Rochester Americans . In January 1975 he was called up from Rochester for seven games with the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League . After the ice hockey world championship in Poland in 1976 , in which the US team took fourth place, Sarner moved to Europe.

In the 1976/77 season he played for the Cologne EC and had a large share in winning the German championship . After another year in Cologne, he moved to the Berlin ice skating club for a year . The next stop was HC Davos , where he was active for three years - last year as a player-coach.

As a result, Sarner stayed in Switzerland and coached SC Bern before returning to Germany for a season to coach the Schwenninger ERC in the 1984/85 season . It was only during the 1990/91 season that Sarner could be seen again behind the ties of a Bundesliga club when he took over BSC Prussia in November 1990 . He stayed with the Prussians until November 1992 and was then replaced by Billy Flynn . In the following season he took over the Mannheim ERC . Towards the end of the 1990s, engagements at ETC Crimmitschau and Heilbronner EC followed .

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personal data
SURNAME Sarner, Craig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarner, Craig Brian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Paul , Minnesota