Ric Seiling

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CanadaCanada  Ric Seiling Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 15, 1957
place of birth Elmira , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 1st round, 14th position
Buffalo Sabers
WHA Amateur Draft 1977 , 6th lap, 55th position
Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
1974-1976 Hamilton Fincups
1976-1977 St. Catharines Fincups
1977-1986 Buffalo Sabers
1986-1987 Detroit Red Wings
1987-1988 Adirondack Red Wings

Richard James Seiling (born December 15, 1957 in Elmira , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who played 800 games for the Buffalo Sabers and Detroit Red Wings in the course of his active career between 1974 and 1988 National Hockey League on the position of the right winger . Since summer 2015 he has been head coach of the Buffalo Beauts from the National Women's Hockey League together with Craig Muni .

Career

Seiling, who grew up as the youngest of three brothers in Elmira in the Canadian province of Ontario , spent his junior years between 1974 and 1977 at the Hamilton Fincups and St. Catharines Fincups in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . With the Hamilton Fincups, the striker won both the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the subsequent Memorial Cup in the 1975/76 season . After the season he moved with the team to St. Catharines . In the summer of 1977 Seiling was in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 in the first round in 14th place by the Buffalo Sabers from the National Hockey League and in the WHA Amateur Draft 1977 in the sixth round in 55th position by the Winnipeg Jets from the World Hockey Association selected.

The attacker immediately decided to switch to the professional field and played with the beginning of the 1977/78 season for the Sabers in the NHL. There he spent the following eight seasons and achieved a career record with 60 scorer points in the 1979/80 season . An eye injury suffered in the following game year caused his offensive production to decline over the years, so that Buffalo separated from him in October 1986 and transferred to the Detroit Red Wings . There Seiling completed another season before he was deported to the farm team Adirondack Red Wings in the American Hockey League for the season 1987/88 . In the summer of 1988, at the age of 29, he finally announced his retirement from active professional sport.

During his time with the Adirondack Red Wings, Seiling had already held a position as an assistant coach and gained initial experience in the coaching business. After a break of several years, he took over the head coach of the Utica Blizzard from the Colonial Hockey League for the 1994/95 season , for which he once again laced his skates in one game. Subsequently, the engagements with the Owen Sound Platers from the Ontario Hockey League in the 1995/96 season and the San Antonio Iguanas from the Central Hockey League in the 1996/97 season were marked by little success, since he was dismissed during the current season has been. He was also released from his duties with the Tulsa Oilers from the CHL during the 1998/99 season , after he had led the team into the playoffs the previous year.

As a result, Seiling paused for several years before returning to women's ice hockey in the summer of 2015 . Seiling was hired as the head coach of the Buffalo Beauts from the newly formed National Women's Hockey League , where he shared the post with Shelley Looney . For the 2016/17 season he was given a new head coach colleague, Craig Muni . He was also promoted to General Manager and led the team - after the runner-up in the previous year - to win the Isobel Cup for the first time .

International

For the Canadian U20 national team , Seiling was used at the Junior World Cup in 1977 in Czechoslovakia . He contributed four scorer points to winning the silver medal in seven tournaments .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1974/75 Hamilton Fincups OMJHL 68 33 30th 63 74 17th 13 5 18th 25th
1975/76 Hamilton Fincups OMJHL 59 35 51 86 49 14th 14th 13 27 19th
1976 Hamilton Fincups Memorial Cup 3 3 6th 9 2
1976/77 St. Catharines Fincups OMJHL 62 50 61 111 103 14th 6th 6th 12 36
1977/78 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 19th 19th 38 33 8th 0 2 2 7th
1978/79 Buffalo Sabers NHL 78 20th 22nd 42 56 3 0 1 1 2
1979/80 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 25th 35 60 54 14th 5 4th 9 6th
1980/81 Buffalo Sabers NHL 74 30th 27 57 80 8th 2 2 4th 2
1981/82 Buffalo Sabers NHL 57 22nd 25th 47 58 4th 1 1 2 2
1982/83 Buffalo Sabers NHL 75 19th 22nd 41 41 10 2 3 5 6th
1983/84 Buffalo Sabers NHL 78 13 22nd 35 42 3 0 0 0 2
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 73 16 15th 31 86 5 4th 1 5 4th
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 69 12 13 25th 74 - - - - -
1986/87 Detroit Red Wings NHL 74 3 8th 11 49 7th 0 0 0 5
1987/88 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 70 16 13 29 34 9 2 2 4th 4th
OMJHL overall 189 118 142 260 226 45 33 24 57 80
NHL overall 738 179 208 387 573 62 14th 14th 28 36

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1977 Canada June World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 3 1 4th 10
Juniors overall 7th 3 1 4th 10

( 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 )

family

Seiling's brothers were also professional ice hockey players. Rod , 13 years his senior , played over 1,000 games in the National Hockey League between 1963 and 1979 and also represented Canada internationally. Don , who was born in 1953, made it to the American Hockey League , where he won the Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears .

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personal data
SURNAME Seiling, Ric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seiling, Richard James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmira , Ontario