John Fust

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Flag of Canada and Switzerland.png  John Fust Ice hockey player
John Fust
Date of birth March 5th 1972
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1991-1994 Princeton University
1994-1995 HC Martigny
EHC Olten
1995-1997 SC Herisau
1997-2002 SC Langnau
2002-2004 HC Ambrì-Piotta
2004-2006 Forward Morges HC
2006 HC Sierre

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  John Fust
Coaching stations
2007-2010 EHC Visp
2010-2013 SCL Tigers
2014-2016 Switzerland U20
2016-2017 EHC Visp
2018 Lausanne HC

John Fust (born March 5, 1972 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian - Swiss ice hockey player and current coach . Since May 2018 he has been in charge of the top talent promotion at Lausanne HC .

Player career

John Fust played during his studies at Princeton University from 1991 to 1994 for their ice hockey team in the ECAC . For the 1994/95 season he moved to Switzerland to HC Martigny in the National League B , where he gained his first professional experience. In the same season he also played for EHC Olten . Then signed a contract with Fust SC Herisau , with which he won in his second season, the NLB championship and promotion to the National League A managed. Although he could have played in the National League A after the rise of the SCH in the following season, Fust returned to the National League B for the 1997/98 season and went to SC Langnau .

Even with the Langnauers, he was promoted to the NLA and Fust was the best scorer of his team in the playoffs with ten points. The 1998/99 season was knocked off as the bottom of the table of the NLA ended and SC Langnau only managed to get the league in seven games in the league qualification against EHC Chur . In addition to Todd Elik , Langnauer's best scorer, Fust was also instrumental in maintaining the team's league. In the following three seasons, the team had to compete again in the playouts and again managed to maintain the league. For the 2002/03 season , John Fust signed a contract with HC Ambrì-Piotta , with which he qualified for the playoffs at the end of the season, but failed in four games against HC Davos . After another year at HCAP, Fust went from 2004 to 2006 in the NLB for Forward Morges HC and HC Sierre before ending his active career.

Coaching career

During the 2007-08 season , Fust was introduced as head coach of EHC Visp after Terry Yake was sacked . In the 2008/09 season he reached the semi-finals of the playoffs with the Valais, a season later the regular season was finished in first place and lost in the playoff finals in five games against Lausanne HC . In January 2010, Fust announced that he was leaving the EHC Visp at the end of the season at his own request. A short time later he agreed on a two-year contract with the SCL Tigers .

In his debut season , Fust led the Langnauer for the first time since the introduction of the new mode in the playoffs. This was achieved seven games before the end of qualification with a 3-2 away win against the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers . In the first play-off round, however, the team failed with a sweep at canton rivals SC Bern .

On December 9, 2012, Fust was released by the SCL Tigers and replaced by the previous assistant coach Alex Reinhard . In May 2013 he was hired as an assistant coach by the NLA promoted Lausanne HC .

From May 2014, Fust was the head coach of the Swiss U20 national ice hockey team and was his assistant coach during Glen Hanlon's tenure in the men's national team . After Hanlon's resignation, Fust worked as head coach of the Swiss national team at the 2015 Deutschland Cup , before Patrick Fischer took over the post. His contract as U20 national coach expired in 2016. In April 2016 he returned to EHC Visp ( National League B ) and took over the position of head coach. After his team's elimination in the playoff quarter-finals in the 2016/17 season against HC La-Chaux-de-Fonds , Fust's contract was not extended, and Alexei Kowaljow had to vacate the post of sports director.

On February 8, 2018, Fust succeeded Yves Sarault as head coach at Lausanne HC , who was third from bottom of the National League at the time Fust was hired. He had already worked as an assistant coach for Lausanne in the 2013/14 season. Fust remained in office until the end of the 2017/18 season and moved to Lausanne in May 2018 as the head of the top talent promotion. In April 2019 he was also appointed to the staff of the Danish national team to work as an assistant coach under Heinz Ehlers during the 2019 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

Personal

After the end of his playing career, Fust began training with the Canadian secret service, but broke it off prematurely in order to advance his coaching career.

His grandparents emigrated from Switzerland to Canada, they came from St. Gallen and Zurich.

NLA statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 6th 266 58 73 131 217
Playoffs 2 11 1 1 2 4th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 20min: John Fust remains a trainer in Visp
  2. ↑ 20min: John Fust leaves Visp
  3. ↑ News: John Fust new coach of the SCL Tigers
  4. ↑ swiss-icehockey.ch, Glen Hanlon new men's A- and John Fust U20 national coach , May 26, 2014
  5. ↑ Swiss national team with four newcomers to the Germany Cup. In: www.toponline.ch. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  6. ^ EHC Visp Sport AG: John Fust on the EHC Visp. In: www.ehc-visp.ch. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Agencies / boe: Big cleaning in the NLB. March 3, 2017, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ http://www.lausannehc.ch/john-fust-appele-a-la-barre-pour-passer-un-cap-necessaire/
  9. ^ Jérôme Reynard: LHC: John Fust nommé directeur de la formation . In: VQH . May 18, 2018, ISSN  1424-4039 ( 24heures.ch [accessed April 12, 2019]).
  10. ^ John Fust avec Heinz Ehlers et le Danemark. Retrieved April 12, 2019 (Swiss French).
  11. ^ The mission of the Langnau agent John Fust. In: bernerzeitung.ch/. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  12. ↑ In Langnau, coach John Fust fights the impending relapse into old habits: the defense as an opportunity. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  13. ↑ My name is Fust, John Fust. In: www.worldjunior2015.com. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Fust, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 5th 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec