Robert Cimetta

Robert Cimetta
Date of birth	February 15, 1970
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1988 , 1st lap, 18th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
1986-1989	Toronto Marlboros
1989-1990	Boston Bruins
1990-1992	Toronto Maple Leafs
1992-1993	St. John's Maple Leafs
1993-1994	Indianapolis Ice
1994-1996	Adler Mannheim
1996	Berlin Capitals
1996-1998	Adler Mannheim
1998-2000	Berlin Capitals

Robert "Rob" Cimetta (born February 15, 1970 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs and in the German Ice Hockey League for the Adler Mannheim and Berlin Capitals played.

Player career

The 1.83 m tall winger began his career with the Toronto Marlboros in the Canadian Junior League OHL before he was selected ( drafted ) in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft as 18th in the first round by the Boston Bruins .

In the 1988/89 season , the left shooter completed his first NHL missions for Boston, he also played for the Maine Mariners , the then farm team of the Bruins in the American Hockey League . In the following season , the Canadian was in 47 NHL games on the ice, scoring eight goals and nine assists . In November 1990 , Cimetta was finally transferred from the Bruins to his hometown of Toronto to the Maple Leafs , where he completed 49 games in the following two years. However, it was used more and more in various farm teams in the AHL and the IHL .

For the 1994/95 season Rob Cimetta moved to the newly founded DEL to the Adler Mannheim , for which he completed 192 season and play-off games until 1998 , scoring 95 goals and 132 assists. Even today, Cimetta occupies fifth place in the team's internal goals, assists and points list. With the Adler, Cimetta won the German championship twice in 1997 and 1998 . The Canadian ended his career in 2000 with the Berlin Capitals, for which he had already played eight games in the 1996/97 season .

International

Due to his strong performance in his last OHL season, which he could finish as top scorer, Robert Cimetta was nominated in 1989 for the Canadian junior national team , for which he played seven games at the U20 World Cup in 1989 .

Others

After finishing his sporting career, Cimetta worked for an American finance company Morgan Stanley . During the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 , he was on the 61st floor of the south tower, which was the second of the two towers to be rammed by a hijacked aircraft. However, he was able to save himself and was unharmed.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1986/87	Toronto Marlboros	OHL		66	21st	35	56	65		-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Toronto Marlboros	OHL		64	34	42	76	90		4th	2	2	4th	7th
1988/89	Toronto Marlboros	OHL		50	55	47	102	89		6th	3	3	6th	0
1988/89	Boston Bruins	NHL		7th	2	0	2	0		1	0	0	0	15th
1989/90	Maine Mariners	AHL		9	3	2	5	13		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Boston Bruins	NHL		47	8th	9	17th	33		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Newmarket Saints	AHL		29	16	18th	34	24		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		25th	2	4th	6th	21st		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		19th	4th	13	17th	23		10	3	7th	10	24
1991/92	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		24	4th	3	7th	12		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		76	28	57	85	125		9	2	10	12	32
1993/94	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		79	26th	54	80	178		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Adler Mannheim	DEL		39	29	31	60	126		9	6th	6th	12	32
1995/96	Adler Mannheim	DEL		50	21st	42	63	76		1	0	1	1	25th
1996/97	Berlin Capitals	DEL		8th	4th	5	9	16		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Adler Mannheim	DEL		36	18th	21st	39	40		9	13	2	15th	14th
1997/98	Adler Mannheim	DEL		41	12	20th	32	82		7th	3	3	6th	18th
1998/99	Berlin Capitals	DEL		34	11	13	24	94		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Berlin Capitals	DEL		49	6th	16	22nd	123		3	0	0	0	10
OHL total				180	110	124	234	244		10	5	5	10	7th
AHL total				133	51	90	141	185		19th	5	17th	22nd	56
IHL total				79	26th	54	80	178		0	0	0	0	0
DEL total				257	101	148	249	557		29	22nd	12	34	99
NHL overall				103	16	16	32	66		1	0	0	0	15th

( 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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Hockey News of February 9, 2008 ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 5, 2011 

Web links

• Robert Cimetta at hockeydb.com (English)
• Robert Cimetta at eurohockey.com