Ross Yates

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CanadaCanada  Ross Yates Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 18, 1959
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1976-1981 Mount Allison University
1981-1984 Binghamton Whalers
1984-1986 Mannheim ERC
1986 Rochester Americans
1986-1990 EHC Kloten
1990-1991 SC Rapperswil-Jona
1991-1992 HC Auronzo

Ross Richard Yates (born June 18, 1959 in Montreal , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach .

Career

Yates played in his youth for Mount Allison University in the CIAU until he began his career with the Binghamton Whalers in the AHL in the 1980/81 season . During his active sporting season in Binghamton , he won both the John B. Sollenberger Trophy and the Les Cunningham Award and the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award in the 1982/83 season . Although he then moved to the Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League during the 1983/84 season , he only played seven games there until he moved to Germany to the Mannheim ERC for the following season .

He ended his active time as a player in Italy with the second division club HC Auronzo , after he had previously played in the National League A from 1986 and 1992 for the EHC Kloten , where he also worked as a player-coach.

Yates began his career as a coach at EC Kassel in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . With Kassel he reached the second division runner-up in the 1993/94 season and thus qualified for the newly founded German Ice Hockey League . For the first time he managed to bring the ice hockey club from Northern Hesse , which was then renamed Kassel Huskies , into the top German league. In the first two years of the DEL he also qualified with the "Huskies" for the play-off quarter-finals. In the 1996/97 season he worked as head coach at the Italian club HC Gherdëina .

For the 2000/01 season, Yates moved back to North America in the AHL for the Syracuse Crunch , for which he worked as an assistant coach until 2006 and from 2006 to 2010 as head coach behind the gang of Syracuse Crunch. From 2012 to 2014 he was assistant coach and then head coach of the Saint John Sea Dogs until 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Yates, Ross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yates, Ross Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec