Jeff Brubaker

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United StatesUnited States  Jeff Brubaker Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 24, 1958
place of birth Hagerstown , Maryland , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 95 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 6th round, 102nd position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
1974-1976 St. Paul Vulcans
1976 Michigan State University
1976-1988 Peterborough Petes
1978-1979 Rochester Americans
1979-1980 Springfield Indians
1980-1981 Binghamton Whalers
1981-1983 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1983-1984 Colorado Flames
1984-1985 Toronto Maple Leafs
1985-1987 Nova Scotia Oilers
1987 Hershey Bears
1987-1988 New York Rangers
1988-1989 Adirondack Red Wings

Jeffrey Joseph Brubaker (born February 24, 1958 in Hagerstown , Maryland ) is a former American ice hockey player and coach who worked for the Hartford Whalers , Canadiens de Montréal , Calgary Flames , Toronto Maple, among others, from 1974 to 1989 Leafs , Edmonton Oilers , New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League .

Career

Jeff Brubaker began his career as a hockey player in the St. Paul Vulcans junior team, for which he was active from 1974 to 1976. He then briefly attended Michigan State University , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , but joined the Peterborough Petes from the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey Association during the 1976/77 season , for which he spent a year and a half ran up. He was then selected in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft in the sixth round as a total of 102nd player by the Boston Bruins , for whom he never played. Instead, the winger made his professional ice hockey debut for the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League in the 1978/79 season . Towards the end of the season he moved to the New England Whalers from the World Hockey Association . The WHA stopped playing at the end of the season and the New England Whalers switched to the National Hockey League as Hartford Whalers . In the NHL, the left shooter came in the 1979/80 season to three missions for Hartford, but spent most of the season with the Springfield Indians in the AHL. In the 1980/81 season he was used in half of all games of the NHL team of the Hartford Whalers, while he had to spend the rest of the time with their AHL farm team Binghamton Whalers .

From 1981 to 1983 Brubaker ran for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in the AHL. For their cooperation partner Canadiens de Montréal , he only came to a total of five missions in the NHL during this period. During the 1983/84 season he appeared as a regular for the Colorado Flames in the Central Hockey League , while he was also on the ice in four games for their NHL partner Calgary Flames . For the 1984/85 season , the American was obliged by the Toronto Maple Leafs , where he completed his only full NHL season. In 68 games he scored eight goals and four assists. In Toronto he began the following season as a regular player before their NHL league rival Edmonton Oilers acquired his transfer rights. With these he came only sporadically to missions in the NHL and spent most of the time in the AHL farm team Nova Scotia Oilers . The 1986/87 season he finally ended with the Hershey Bears from the AHL. For the 1987/88 season he was signed by the New York Rangers , for which he scored two goals in 31 games in the NHL. The rest of the time he spent with their Colorado Rangers farm team in the International Hockey League . He last appeared in the 1988/89 season for the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL, for which he only played a single game. He spent the entire rest of the season as a regular on their farm team Adirondack Red Wings from the AHL. He then ended his active career at the age of 31.

United StatesUnited States  Jeff Brubaker
Coaching stations
1989-1995 Greensboro Monarchs
1995-1996 Jacksonville Lizard Kings
1996 Orlando Jackals (inline hockey)
1996-1997 San Antonio Dragons
1998-1999 Tallahassee Tiger Sharks
1999-2001 Greensboro Generals
2004-2005 Asheville Aces

From 1989 to 1995 Brubaker was the head coach of the Greensboro Monarchs from the ECHL . With these he won the Riley Cup in the 1989/90 season . In the 1994/95 season he failed with the Monarchs only in the playoff final. The same happened to him in the following season with ECHL league rivals Jacksonville Lizard Kings . In between he had also looked after the Orlando Jackals from the professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International . In the 1996/97 season he led the San Antonio Dragons from the IHL in the second playoff round. For the 1998/99 season he joined the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks from the ECHL, with whom he also missed the playoffs, as in the following two years with their league rivals Greensboro Generals . Most recently he was in the 2004/05 season with the Asheville Aces from the Southern Professional Hockey League behind the gang, with which he again missed the playoffs.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 8th 178 16 9 25th 512
NHL playoffs 1 2 0 0 0 27
WHA regular season 1 12 0 0 0 19th
WHA playoffs 1 3 0 0 0 12

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personal data
SURNAME Brubaker, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brubaker, Jeffrey Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagerstown , Maryland , USA