Rob Cookson

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Rob Cookson in October 2014

Rob Cookson (born January 25, 1961 in Lacombe , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach.

Career

Cookson worked for the Canadian Ice Hockey Federation from 1991 and was active as a member of the coaching staff for various national teams. His main task was video analysis and enemy detection. He is an assistant coach for the Canadian national team at the Winter Olympics in 1994 and 1998 and several world championships, including the tournaments in 1997 and 2003, when Canada won the world title. He also won the World Cup four times as an assistant coach with the Canadian junior national teams, in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2004.

In 1998 he was hired by the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League (NHL) as a video coordinator. After three years he moved within the NHL to the Calgary Flames and worked there as an assistant coach until 2011.

In the 2011/12 season he was employed as an assistant coach at the University of Calgary.

From the 2012/13 season Cookson worked as an assistant to head coach Marc Crawford at the ZSC Lions from the Swiss National League A (NLA). With the Lions, he won the Swiss championship in 2014 and the cup competition in 2016. Three times in a row ZSC finished the NLA main round in first place under Crawford and Cookson. After the 2015/16 season, she separated from the Lions.

At the 2015 Spengler Cup , Cookson was an assistant coach on the staff of the Canadian selection that won the tournament.

In June 2016, Cookson was appointed as an assistant to the coaching staff of the NHL club Ottawa Senators . He then worked there for three years before he received no new contract for the 2019/20 season. In December 2019 he was hired by the Swiss NLA club HC Lugano as an assistant coach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Boucher returns as head coach at 2015 Spengler Cup. In: hockeycanada.ca. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  2. ^ Rob Cookson - Assistant Coach - Calgary Flames. In: www.nhl.com. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The assistant at the wheel of the ZSC. In: Tages-Anzeiger . Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Thank you! In: zsclions.ch. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Rob Cookson supports Guy Boucher. In: spenglercup.ch. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  6. ↑ News Release: Ottawa Senators name Rob Cookson assistant coach. In: senators.nhl.com. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Pierre Dorion has picked DJ Smith as the next head coach of the Ottawa Senators | Ottawa Sun. In: Ottawa Sun. May 24, 2019, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The two assistants are called: Rob Cookson and Paul DiPietro. In: HC Lugano. December 21, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Cookson, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Lacombe , Alberta , Canada