Doug Mason

Doug Mason
Date of birth	20th August 1955
place of birth	Greater Sudbury , Ontario , Canada
size	182 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1972-1976	Welland Sabers
1976-1977	Thunder Bay Twins Port Huron Flags
1977-1988	Cambridge Hornets
1979-1988	Tilburg Trappers

Doug Mason
Coaching stations
1989-1990	Langhout Travelers Utrecht
1990-1991	Peter Langhout Utrecht
1991-1992	Sudbury Wolves ( Assistant Coach )
1992	SC Lyss
1992-1993	Asiago Hockey
1993-1997	Tilburg Trappers
1997-1998	Augsburger Panther ( assistant coach )
1998	SC Lucerne
1998-2001	Krefeld penguins
2001-2002	EV train
2003-2006	Iserlohn Roosters
2006-2009	Cologne Sharks
2009-2010	Adler Mannheim
2010-2014	Iserlohn Roosters
2014-2016	EC KAC
since 2016	Graz 99ers

Douglas A. Mason (born August 20, 1955 in Greater Sudbury , Ontario ) is a Dutch - Canadian ice hockey coach and former player. Since mid-December 2016 he has been the head coach of the Graz 99ers from the Austrian ice hockey league .

He is married and has a daughter. His son is the Dutch national ice hockey player Steve Mason .

Career as a player

Doug Mason played from 1972 to 1976 for the Welland Sabers in the lower-class junior league Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League . From 1976 to 1978 he played in the Ontario Hockey Association Senior for one year each for the Thunder Bay Twins and Cambridge Hornets. In the 1976/77 season he made his professional debut for the Port Huron Flags , for which he was on the ice in three games in the International Hockey League . From 1979 to 1988 he played for Tilburg Trappers in the Dutch Eredivisie .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1972/73	Welland Sabers	SOJHL
1973/74	Welland Sabers	SOJHL		62	38	43	81	88
1975/76	Welland Sabers	SOJHL
1976/77	Thunder Bay Twins	OHASr		26th	15th	8th	23	20th
1976/77	Port Huron flags	IHL		3	0	1	1	7th		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Cambridge Hornets	OHASr		38	26th	22nd	48	32
1979/80	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		37	41	41	82	52
1980/81	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		46	37	55	92	54
1981/82	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		52	38	47	85	88
1982/83	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		20th	13	17th	30th	26th
1983/84	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		54	47	66	113	31
1984/85	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		24	15th	22nd	37	28
1985/86	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		41	33	51	84	38
1986/87	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		31	15th	29	44	12
1987/88	Tilburg Trappers	Eredivisie		38	12	24	36	24
Eredivisie total				343	251	352	603	353

( 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 )

Career as a coach

Before joining the DEL as a trainer , he worked for a long time in the Netherlands and Canada. In Eindhoven followed Utrecht , the Sudbury Wolves , HC Asiago and the Tilburg Trappers . Then he celebrated his debut in the DEL. He was assistant trainer for the Augsburger Panthers for a while, from 1998 he trained the Krefeld Penguins for a total of three years . The following season he coached EV Zug . In the 2002/03 season Mason was without employment, in 2003 he replaced Dave Whistle with the Iserlohn Roosters , with whom he still confidently avoided relegation. As a result, he was voted Trainer of the Year 2003 in Iserlohn. The native Canadian got a contract early on until 2006 because he is considered a hard worker. In order to be able to concentrate fully on this task, he stepped down as bond coach in the Netherlands . With their national team, he narrowly missed promotion to the A group at the 2005 B World Cup in Eindhoven. On the last day of the season he announced his departure from Iserlohn. According to his own statements, he either wants to go to Sweden or take a break. Since April 2006 Doug Mason was the head coach of the Kölner Haie . Clayton Beddoes , who was already Mason's assistant in Iserlohn , stayed in Cologne as the assistant coach of the new Haie head coach . In the 2007/2008 season he was runner-up with the Kölner Haien. After only seven games in the 2008/09 season , Mason was dismissed from the KEC, as the start of the season was bad with seven defeats from as many games.

In the 2009/10 season Mason trained as the head coach of the Adler Mannheim before he was released on January 11, 2010 due to eight defeats in nine games. On December 13, 2010, Doug Mason took over the position of head coach at his ex-club Iserlohn Roosters and replaced Uli Liebsch there . At the end of the season he and his team just failed at the pre-playoffs. In February 2013, the Iserlohn Roosters took up the option to extend their contract with Doug Mason until the end of the 2013/14 season . On October 29, 2013, he was given a leave of absence due to poor athletic development.

Between October 2014 and December 2015 Mason trained the Austrian record champion EC KAC in the EBEL .

On 15 December 2016, transferred Graz 99ers Mason the post of head coach in succession to the sacked Ivo Jan .

statistics

season	team	league		annotation
1998/99	Krefeld penguins	DEL
1999/00	Krefeld penguins	DEL
2000/01	Krefeld penguins	DEL
2001/02	EV train	NLA
2003/04	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		from October 4, 2003
2004/05	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL
2005/06	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL
2006/07	Cologne Sharks	DEL
2007/08	Cologne Sharks	DEL		Runner-up
2008/09	Cologne Sharks	DEL		until September 22, 2008
2009/10	Adler Mannheim	DEL		until January 11, 2010
2010/11	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		from December 13, 2010
2011/12	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL
2012/13	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL
2013/14	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		until October 29, 2013
2014/15	EC KAC	EBEL		from October 2014
2015/16	EC KAC	EBEL		until December 2015
2016/17	Graz 99ers	EBEL		from December 2016

Web links

• Doug Mason at hockeydb.com (English)
• Doug Mason at eurohockey.com
• Doug Mason at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ haie.de: The Kölner Haie part ways with trainer Mason
2. ↑ adler-mannheim.de, Doug Mason exempted ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ iserlohn-roosters.de, Iserlohn Roosters part ways with trainer Uli Liebsch ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ Doug Mason no longer KAC coach - Alexander Mellitzer interim trainer. In: kurier.at. December 1, 2015, accessed December 2, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Graz 99ers | TRAINER TEAM RELEASED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. In: www.99ers.at. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .