Jeff Tory

Jeff Tory
Date of birth	May 5th 1973
place of birth	Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada
size	179 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	defender
number	# 7
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1993-1996	University of Maine
1996-1997	Kentucky Thoroughblades
1997-1999	Houston Eros
1999-2000	Philadelphia Phantoms
2000-2001	Houston Eros
2001-2002	Kassel Huskies
2002-2003	Hamburg Freezers
2003-2006	DEG Metro Stars
2006-2007	ERC Ingolstadt
2007-2010	EC KAC
2010-2011	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2011–2012	Ice pirates Crimmitschau

Jeffrey Tory (born May 5, 1973 in Burnaby , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach , who currently looks after the junior team of the Portland Pirates in the United States Premier Hockey League .

Career

Tory began his career on the team at the University of Maine in the US college league NCAA ( Hockey East ) and moved to the American Hockey League for the 1996/97 season . In the same year he completed 54 games for the Canadian national team and scored 45 points. After several years in the International Hockey League , he moved to Europe in the summer of 2001 in the German Ice Hockey League for the Kassel Huskies .

He spent a total of six years in the German elite league, half of the time under contract with the DEG Metro Stars , before the Austrian record champions EC KAC signed him for the 2007/08 season. While he stood out in Germany with a hard shot from the blue line, he managed to set the club's season record for assists with 40 assists in 49 games in Klagenfurt . In the following two seasons, too, he showed particularly good offensives. In the spring of 2010, however, it became known that the club no longer extended the contract with him. For the 2010/11 season Tory was signed by HDD Olimpija Ljubljana . After the season he went back to Germany, where he signed a contract with the second division Eispiraten Crimmitschau .

Since summer 2013, Tory has been the head coach of the Portland Pirates' U18 youth team in the United States Premier Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 Turner Cup win with the Houston Eros
• 2006 German Cup victory with the DEG Metro Stars
• 2009 Austrian champion with the KAC

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1993/94	University of Maine	NCAA		3	0	0	0	4th
1994/95	University of Maine	NCAA		40	13	42	55	22nd
1995/96	University of Maine	NCAA		38	4th	37	41	36
1996/97	Team Canada	International		54	8th	37	45	30th
1996/97	Kentucky Thoroughblades	AHL		3	0	2	2	0		4th	0	0	0	2
1997/98	Houston Eros	IHL		74	11	27	38	35		4th	0	1	1	2
1998/99	Houston Eros	IHL		79	19th	36	55	46		18th	2	6th	8th	8th
1999/00	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		76	17th	41	58	44		5	1	3	4th	4th
2000/01	Utah grizzlies	IHL		10	1	3	4th	7th
2000/01	Houston Eros	IHL		70	12	23	35	24		7th	1	4th	5	2
2001/02	Kassel Huskies	DEL		59	10	28	38	24		7th	0	3	3	16
2002/03	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	13	33	46	46		5	0	0	0	2
2003/04	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		51	12	34	46	58		4th	1	0	1	4th
2004/05	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		50	10	20th	30th	73
2005/06	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		52	14th	32	46	30th		14th	1	9	10	10
2006/07	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		51	12	31	43	26th		6th	2	3	5	4th
2007/08	EC KAC	EBEL		46	6th	39	45	24		3	0	1	1	0
2008/09	EC KAC	EBEL		51	9	42	51	30th		17th	3	12	15th	24
2009/10	EC KAC	EBEL		53	13	36	49	28		7th	1	5	6th	4th
2010/11	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	EBEL		33	0	19th	19th	16
2011/12	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd BL

Web links

• Jeff Tory at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jeff Tory at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ jrpirates.com Junior Pirates add 16 year Pro, Jeff Tory, to Hockey Ops Staff