Rob Zettler

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CanadaCanada  Rob Zettler Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 8, 1968
place of birth Sept-Îles , Quebec , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1986 , 3rd round, 55th position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1984-1988 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1988-1989 Kalamazoo Wings
1989-1991 Minnesota North Stars
1991-1994 San Jose Sharks
1994-1995 Philadelphia Flyers
1995-1998 Toronto Maple Leafs
1998-1999 Nashville Predators
1999-2002 Washington Capitals

Rob Zettler (born March 8, 1968 in Sept-Îles , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 583 games for the Minnesota North Stars , San Jose Sharks , Philadelphia during his playing career between 1984 and 2002 Flyers , Toronto Maple Leafs , Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . He also played another 310 games in the International Hockey League and American Hockey League . Most recently, until May 2019, Zettler worked as an assistant coach for the San Jose Sharks in his second term.

Career

Zettler began playing ice hockey in his hometown at the age of four. A successful junior period with Sault Ste. Followed from 1984 to 1988 . Marie Greyhounds in the Ontario Hockey League . During his time in the OHL, the Canadian won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the greyhounds and reached the final tournament for the Memorial Cup . Finally, he was selected in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft in the third round in 55th position by the Minnesota North Stars .

In the 1987/88 season, Zettler played his first games for the then North Stars farm team , the Kalamazoo Wings , in the International Hockey League (IHL). In the 1988/89 season , the defender ran for the first time in the NHL for Minnesota, but played again and again in Kalamazoo for the farm team up to and including the 1990/91 season . Due to the NHL Dispersal Draft in 1991 , Zettler had to switch to the San Jose Sharks . In the following three seasons Zettler developed into a permanent fixture in the defensive association of the newly created team, but was given in the course of the 1993/94 season in exchange for Vyachelsaw Buzayev to the Philadelphia Flyers . Zettler played there until the end of the 1995/96 season . This was followed by the transfer to the Toronto Maple Leafs in his Canadian homeland, where he played until 1998. He was then selected by the Nashville Predators in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft . After only one season there, he signed a free agent contract with the Washington Capitals , where he played under head coach Ron Wilson . After Zettler had been absent for a long time in the 1999/00 season due to a head injury, he could no longer build on his previous performances and often played in the American Hockey League with the Portland Pirates , the Capitals' farm team , in the following years . In addition to being a player, he worked there as a supporter of the team's talents to prepare them for an NHL career.

After the end of the 2001/02 season , Zettler ended his career on August 27, 2002. On December 6, 2002, he was named assistant coach of the team by the new head coach of the San Jose Sharks, Ron Wilson. There he worked with the team's defenders until 2008, before Ron Wilson was released at the end of the season. After Wilson had assumed the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs a little later and Zettler initially remained in the organization of the Sharks, the Maple Leafs signed him in July 2008. The Canadian had this position for four seasons before he left the Syracuse Crunch in the summer of 2012 was engaged in the same function. After Jon Cooper took over the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team in March 2013 , Zettler was promoted to head coach at the Syracuse Crunch. He held this position until the end of the 2015/16 season. In July 2017, he finally returned to the San Jose Sharks, who hired him as Peter DeBoer's assistant coach . There he was replaced by Bob Boughner after another two years after the 2018/19 season .

Together with Tim Hunter , he was the first professional sports trainer to receive a certificate from the Positive Coaching Alliance , an organization that takes care of sports as a character-building measure. In addition, Zettler founded the Zettler Pro Hockey Camps , a week-long ice hockey training course for eight to eleven year old children in South Lake Tahoe .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt
1984/85 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 60 2 14th 16 37 16 0 2 2 8th
1985 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds Memorial Cup 4th 0 1 1 2
1985/86 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 57 5 23 28 92 - - - - -
1986/87 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 64 13 22nd 35 89 4th 0 0 0 0
1987/88 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 64 7th 41 48 77 6th 2 2 4th 9
1987/88 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 2 0 1 1 0 7th 0 2 2 2
1988/89 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 80 5 21st 26th 79 6th 0 1 1 26th
1988/89 Minnesota North Stars NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1989/90 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 41 6th 10 16 64 7th 0 0 0 6th
1989/90 Minnesota North Stars NHL 31 0 8th 8th 45 - - - - -
1990/91 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1990/91 Minnesota North Stars NHL 47 1 4th 5 119 - - - - -
1991/92 San Jose Sharks NHL 74 1 8th 9 99 - - - - -
1992/93 San Jose Sharks NHL 80 0 7th 7th 150 - - - - -
1993/94 San Jose Sharks NHL 42 0 3 3 65 - - - - -
1993/94 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 33 0 4th 4th 69 - - - - -
1994/95 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 32 0 1 1 34 1 0 0 0 2
1995/96 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 29 0 1 1 48 2 0 0 0 0
1996/97 Utah grizzlies IHL 30th 0 10 10 60 - - - - -
1996/97 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 48 2 12 14th 51 - - - - -
1997/98 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 59 0 7th 7th 108 - - - - -
1998/99 Nashville Predators NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1998/99 Utah grizzlies IHL 77 2 16 18th 136 - - - - -
1999/00 Portland Pirates AHL 23 2 2 4th 27 - - - - -
1999/00 Washington Capitals NHL 12 0 2 2 19th 5 0 0 0 2
2000/01 Portland Pirates AHL 36 1 9 10 84 - - - - -
2000/01 Washington Capitals NHL 29 0 4th 4th 55 6th 0 0 0 0
2001/02 Washington Capitals NHL 49 1 4th 5 56 - - - - -
OHL total 245 27 100 127 295 26th 2 4th 6th 17th
IHL total 231 13 58 71 341 20th 0 3 3 34
AHL total 59 3 11 14th 111 - - - - -
NHL overall 569 5 65 70 922 14th 0 0 0 4th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Zettler, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Sept-Îles , Quebec , Canada