Rich Chernomaz

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Rich Chernomaz
Date of birth September 1, 1963
place of birth Selkirk , Manitoba , Canada
size 177 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 2nd lap, 26th position
Colorado Rockies
Career stations
1979-1980 Saskatoon Blades
1980-1983 Victoria Cougars
1982 Colorado Rockies
1983-1987 New Jersey Devils
Maine Mariners
1987-1993 Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1993-1995 St. John's Maple Leafs
1995-1999 SERC Wild Wings

Richard "Rich" M. Chernomaz (born September 1, 1963 in Selkirk , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player. Next to DEL record coach Don Jackson, he is the only coach who has won German championships in the German ice hockey league with two different clubs .

Career

As a player

Rich Chernomaz began his professional career in 1979 in the Western Hockey League with the Saskatoon Blades . After two years in the junior league , where he also played for the Victoria Cougars , he was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in a total of 26th place. In 1981 he won the championship in the WHL with the Cougars. During the 1981/82 season , the center forward received first missions with the Rockies, but he was never able to establish himself as a regular in the NHL. So he spent the next few years alternating between the New Jersey Devils renamed Rockies, for which he received occasional assignments, and their AHL farm team, the Maine Mariners . In 1984 Chernomaz won the AHL championship, the Calder Cup, with the Mariners . In 1987 Chernomaz was transferred to the Calgary Flames , but even here he only completed a few games for the NHL team and was mainly used in their IHL team in Salt Lake City. There he was always one of the top scorers, although as in his previous stations he received many penalties. In the season 1987/88 he led the team to win the play-offs , a year later they reached the final again, but lost there in five games.

For the 1993/94 season he moved to the St. John's Maple Leafs back in the AHL, where he played two years and set a new club record in terms of scorer points per season. Because of his 110 points in the 1993/94 season, he was also voted the best player of the year in the AHL. In 1995 he took part in the World Cup for Team Canada and won the bronze medal with the team. For the 1995/96 season he accepted an offer from Schwenninger Wild Wings from the DEL , where the attacker was always one of the top scorers, but with whom he only moved into the play-offs in the first year. In 1999 Chernomaz ended his active career.

Chernomaz was nicknamed the Ax of Manitoba in the early years of his career because of his tough and physical style of play .

As a trainer

Rich Chernomaz's coaching career began while he was still playing. From 1993 to 1995 he acted with the St. John's Maple Leafs not only as a striker, but also as an assistant to head coaches Marc Crawford and Tom Watt . He took up his first engagement as the chief trainer in 1999 with the Schwenninger Wild Wings, which he trained for two years. For the 2001/02 season he became Lance Nethery's assistant at the Kölner Haien . After his release in the spring of 2002, the Canadian took over the position of coach and led the KEC into the play-offs and the German championship . However, since Hans Zach was already established as the Haie coach for the 2002/03 season, Chernomaz moved to the Augsburg Panthers and to the Frankfurt Lions for the 2003/04 season . The Lions had been relegated from the DEL in the previous year, but remained in the DEL due to the forced relegation of the Schwenninger Wild Wings for financial reasons.

Chernomaz surprisingly won the title in his first season in Frankfurt, his second championship as a coach. The following year, the Lions finished the preliminary round as first in the table, but failed in the play-off semifinals at Mannheim. In the 2005/06 season Chernomaz missed the play-offs with the Frankfurt team. When the Lions released their manager Karl-Heinz Fliegauf shortly before Christmas 2006 , Chernomaz also took over his duties; for 2007/08 was Dwayne Norris , as an active player under Chernomaz 2002 in Cologne and 2004 German Champion in Frankfurt, new manager of the Lions. After the expulsion of the insolvent Lions from the DEL before the start of the 2010/11 season , Chernomaz took over the head coach of the dismissed Greg Thomson shortly after the start of the season at ERC Ingolstadt . At the end of 2012, Chernomaz was fired by the Ingolstadt residents. In April 2013 he returned to his old place of work in Frankfurt am Main, where he took over the post of sports director of the Löwen Frankfurt . On December 21, 2015, Chernomaz succeeded the coach Tim Kehler, who had previously been released from his duties, in addition to his position as sports director . From June 2016 he formed the athletic leadership team at the Lions with coach Paul Gardner . Shortly before Christmas 2017, Chernomaz's work in Frankfurt ended. The club announced that it would not extend the contract, which expired in April 2018, and that it would release Chernomaz with immediate effect, "so that there is no irritation about responsibilities in the sporting field and the sporting squad planning is continued," the club management said. Regarding Chernomaz's tenure in Frankfurt, the Löwen leadership announced: "We draw a positive conclusion in the sporting field, but want to further develop the range of work areas of the Löwen sports director and provide new impulses." including winning the DEL2 championship in the 2016/17 season.

Until mid-January 2019, he was the head coach of the Nottingham Panthers in the British Elite League for nine months . When he was fired in Nottingham, he was with his team in third place in the table, but had lost the previous four games. From February 5, 2019 to the end of April 2019, Chernomaz was the coach of EV Ravensburg from the DEL2. At the end of April 2019 he led Ravensburg to win the championship title in the DEL2, in the final series they prevailed against his former employer Frankfurt. After the Towerstars signed the Finn Tomek Valtonen for the 2019/20 season in mid-January 2019 , Chernomaz left Ravensburg after winning the title. After Valtonen's leave of absence, he returned to his old place of work in November 2019 and signed a contract with the Ravensburg Towerstars until 2021. In addition to his work as head coach, Chernomaz has since been responsible for putting together the squad together with Managing Director Rainer Schan.

Achievements and Awards

Statistics as a player

  • NHL: 51 games, 9 goals, 7 assists, 18 penalty minutes
  • DEL: 197 games, 74 goals, 163 assists, 596 penalty minutes
  • AHL: 457 games, 167 goals, 243 assists, 716 penalty minutes
  • IHL: 494 games, 226 goals, 324 assists, 1127 penalty minutes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Heinrich: Ice Hockey: The "Ax of Manitoba" as the root of success . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 15, 2004, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 30, 2016]).
  2. ↑ DEL playoffs: Kölner Haie celebrate sensational championship title. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  3. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Löwen Frankfurt: Review: The ice hockey miracle of Frankfurt | Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ ERC Ingolstadt dismisses coach Rich Chernomaz. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  5. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Rich Chernomaz returns to the Frankfurt Lions | Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ hessenschau.de, Frankfurt, Germany: Löwen fire coach Kehler - Chernomaz takes over | hessenschau.de | More sport. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  7. ^ Löwen Frankfurt: Pure experience: Paul Gardner coaches the Löwen Frankfurt - Löwen Frankfurt. In: www.loewen-frankfurt.de. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Setting the course at an early stage: Franz-David Fritzmeier new sports director. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Elite League: Nottingham Panthers sack head coach Rich Chernomaz . January 16, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed February 6, 2019]).
  10. ^ Ravensburg: Chernomaz for Ehrenberger. In: Donaukurier. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ravensburg Towerstars celebrate DEL2 championship 2019 after a clear 5-1 home win over Frankfurt. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Tomek Valtonen is the new Towerstars head coach. May 6, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ravensburg Towerstars part ways with head coach Tomek Valtonen - predecessor Rich Chernomaz takes over again. November 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020 .
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Squad of the Ravensburg Towerstars in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Chernomaz, Rich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chernomaz, Richard M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Selkirk , Manitoba, Canada