Roy Sommer (ice hockey player)

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United StatesUnited States  Roy summer Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 5th 1957
place of birth Oakland , California , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 6th round, 101st position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1974-1975 Spruce Grove Mets
1975-1977 Calgary Centennials
1977-1988 Saginaw Gears
Dayton / Grand Rapids Owls
1978-1979 Spokane Flyers
1979-1980 Houston Apollos
1980-1983 Wichita wind
1983-1985 Maine Mariners
1985-1986 Indianapolis Checkers
1986-1987 Muskegon Lumberjacks
United StatesUnited States  Roy summer
Coaching stations
1987-1988 Muskegon Lumberjacks (assistant coach)
1988-1989 Prince Albert Raiders (Assistant Coach)
1991-1992 Roanoke Valley Rebels
1992-1996 Richmond Renegades
1996-1998 San Jose Sharks (Assistant Coach)
1998-2001 Kentucky Thoroughblades
2001-2006 Cleveland Barons
2006-2015 Worcester Sharks
since 2015 San Jose Barracuda

Roy A. Sommer (born April 5, 1957 in Oakland , California ) is a retired American ice hockey player and current coach . During his career he completed three games for the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League in the 1980/81 season and was between 1995 and 1997 assistant coach of the San Jose Sharks . He is currently the head coach of the San Jose Barracuda in the American Hockey League .

Career

Sommer began his ice hockey career in 1974 at the age of 17 in the Alberta Junior Hockey League with Spruce Grove Mets, with whom he won the Centennial Cup, the championship of the AJHL, in his first season. After he had already played a game for the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Western Canada Hockey League during his time with the Mets, the Calgary Centennials from the WCHL signed him for the 1975/76 season , to which he remained loyal for two years he switched to the senior sector.

There were his first stop the Saginaw Gears from the International Hockey League , which he, however, after twelve completed sections in the game year 1976/77, following a change to the league rivals Dayton Owls , who in the course of the season for Grand Rapids is moved and in Grand Rapids Owls renamed had to leave. For the Owls he played 45 more encounters in the season and nine more in the 1978/79 game year, after he had spent the entire preseason with the Spokane Flyers in the Pacific Hockey League . Previously, he had already represented his home country at the turn of the year 1976/77 at the Junior World Championship in Czechoslovakia and was selected in the sixth round of the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft in 101st place by the Toronto Maple Leafs . During the 1979/80 season, summer finally moved to the Central Hockey League for the Houston Apollos , before he joined the league competitor Wichita Wind in the following season in 1980/81 , and he was appointed to be their team captain straight away.

This season, the trained center also played his only three games in the National Hockey League , after the Edmonton Oilers had signed him as a free agent on January 1, 1980 , as the Maple Leafs had shown no interest in a commitment. Sommer scored a goal in the three encounters and received seven penalty minutes. After the interlude in Edmonton, the striker spent the following two seasons until the summer of 1983 with the Wichita Wind, although he had been signed by the New Jersey Devils the year before . From the 1983/84 season he played for their farm team , the Maine Mariners , in the American Hockey League , with which he won the Calder Cup , the championship trophy of the AHL. In the following year, summer stayed with the Mariners, but the title defense was missed. Further stations until 1987 were the Indianapolis Checkers and Muskegon Lumberjacks , with whom he won the Turner Cup in 1986 , in the International Hockey League , before he ended his active career at the age of 30. In addition to his engagements with the NHL franchises in Toronto, Edmonton and New Jersey, he also played in the system of the St. Louis Blues and Pittsburgh Penguins .

With the beginning of the 1987/88 season, summer worked for a year as the assistant coach of the Muskegon Lumberjacks under head coach Rick Ley . At the same time he began studying at the University of Maine which lasted until 1991 and which later also took him to Indiana State University . Due to his studies, he only worked in the season 1988/89 as an assistant to Peter Anholt with the Prince George Cougars in the Western Hockey League , before taking a two-year break. For the 1991/92 season, the American took his first head coach with the Roanoke Valley Rebels from the East Coast Hockey League . This he left after only a year, because the league competitor Richmond Renegades had taken him under contract. After two mixed first seasons, summer led the team to win the Riley Cup in the 1994/95 game year . He himself had already been named head coach in one of the two all-star teams during the season. In the summer months, Sommer did not take a break and between 1994 and 1996 he also acted as the head coach of the San Jose Rhinos , an inline hockey team from Roller Hockey International . He led this to winning the Murphy Cup in 1995 and was nominated there in 1996 as the head coach of an All-Star team. The season that followed winning the ECHL title was similarly successful. Since he led the Renegades with the best season record of all teams in the playoffs, he was again in charge of one of the All-Star teams and was also named the best coach in the league. Nevertheless, he missed a successful title defense with the team.

Sommer's successful work with the Richmond Renegades and the San Jose Rhinos had not gone unnoticed by both the National Hockey League franchises and the US Association. After he had ended the engagements in Richmond and San Jose in 1996, the San Jose Sharks took him from the NHL under contract. At the same time, the US federation, which was looking for a head coach for the national inline hockey team, showed interest in him. This he led between 1996 and 1998 at three IIHF inline hockey world championships to two gold medals and one silver medal. In San Jose he worked in the 1996/97 season as assistant coach to Al Sims , who was replaced by Darryl Sutter the following year . Sommer's time with the Sharks ended in the summer of 1998 when Sutter hired new assistants. Since the management of San Joses did not want to do without the services summer, he was promoted to head coach of the Kentucky Thoroughblades , San Jose's farm team at the time in the American Hockey League. In total, Sommer supervised the Thoroughblades for three years, led them into the playoffs each year and won a division title in 2000 and 2001 . The league management honored these results in January 2000 with the appointment as head coach at the AHL All-Star Classic .

After the 2000/01 season, the franchise moved from Kentucky to Cleveland and continued to play in the AHL under the name Cleveland Barons . Although Sommer remained their head coach and Cleveland in cooperation with the Sharks, but in the five years of the team's existence only one win rate of more than 50 percent and qualification for the playoffs was achieved. For the 2006/07 season the team moved again, this time to Worcester in the US state of Massachusetts . There the team took the name Worcester Sharks . The American continued to train the franchise despite the unsuccessful time in Cleveland. Currently is the longest serving head coach of the American Hockey League. Since the 2002/03 season he has been working behind the gang with his assistant coach David Cunniff .

On February 11, 2012, Sommer reached another milestone in his coaching career with the 500th career win in the American Hockey League. In the history of the league, only Bun Cook , Frank Mathers and John Paddock had succeeded in this.

Even after the team moved again in 2015, which is now called San Jose Barracuda , Sommer remained in the position of head coach.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

International

  • 1996 gold medal at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship
  • 1997 gold medal at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship
  • 1998 silver medal at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship

Career statistics

As a player

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1974/75 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 1 0 0 0 5 - - - - -
1974/75 Spruce Grove Mets AJHL 85 20th 21st 41 200 - - - - -
1975/76 Calgary Centennials WCHL 70 13 24 37 155 - - - - -
1976/77 Calgary Centennials WCHL 50 16 22nd 38 111 9 5 9 14th 8th
1977/78 Saginaw Gears IHL 12 2 3 5 2 - - - - -
1977/78 Dayton / Grand Rapids Owls IHL 45 20th 18th 38 67 - - - - -
1978/79 Spokane Flyers PHL 45 19th 30th 49 196 - - - - -
1979/80 Grand Rapids Owls IHL 9 1 4th 5 32 - - - - -
1979/80 Houston Apollos CHL 69 24 31 55 246 6th 2 2 4th 8th
1980/81 Wichita wind CHL 57 13 22nd 35 212 14th 3 2 5 61
1980/81 Edmonton Oilers NHL 3 1 0 1 7th - - - - -
1981/82 Wichita wind CHL 76 17th 28 45 193 - - - - -
1982/83 Wichita wind CHL 73 22nd 39 61 130 - - - - -
1983/84 Maine Mariners AHL 67 7th 10 17th 202 14th 6th 1 7th 24
1984/85 Maine Mariners AHL 80 12 13 25th 175 11 4th 2 6th 27
1985/86 Indianapolis Checkers IHL 37 9 10 19th 118 - - - - -
1985/86 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 27 5 8th 13 109 12 2 4th 6th 92
1986/87 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 65 14th 13 27 219 15th 3 3 6th 44
AJHL total 85 20th 21st 41 200 - - - - -
WCHL overall 121 29 46 75 271 9 5 9 14th 8th
PHL total 45 19th 30th 49 196 - - - - -
CHL total 275 76 120 196 781 20th 5 4th 9 69
IHL total 195 51 56 107 547 27 5 7th 12 136
AHL total 147 19th 23 42 377 25th 10 3 13 51
NHL overall 3 1 0 1 7th - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1977 United States June World Cup 7th place 7th 3 1 4th 0
Juniors overall 7th 3 1 4th 0

( 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 )

As a trainer

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp S. N U OTN Pt Victory-% Sp S. N result
1987/88 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL Assistant coach under Rick Ley
1988/89 Prince Albert Raiders WHL Assistant trainer under Peter Anholt
1989/90 without a contract no job as a trainer -
1990/91 without a contract no job as a trainer
1991/92 Roanoke Valley Rebels ECHL 64 21st 36 - 7th 49 0.383 7th 3 4th Quarterfinal division
1992/93 Richmond Renegades ECHL 64 34 28 - 2 70 0.547 1 0 1 Qualification
1993/94 Richmond Renegades ECHL 68 34 29 - 5 73 0.537 - - - -
1994/95 Richmond Renegades ECHL 68 41 20th - 7th 89 0.654 17th 13 4th Riley Cup winner
1995/96 Richmond Renegades ECHL 70 46 11 - 13 105 0.750 7th 4th 3 Division semifinal
1996/97 San Jose Sharks NHL Assistant coach under Al Sims
1997/98 San Jose Sharks NHL Assistant coach under Darryl Sutter
1998/99 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 80 44 26th 7th 3 98 0.613 12 6th 6th Conference semifinal
1999/00 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 80 42 25th 9 4th 97 0.606 9 4th 5 Conference semifinal
2000/01 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 80 42 25th 12 1 97 0.606 3 0 3 Conference quarterfinal
2001/02 Cleveland Barons AHL 80 29 40 7th 4th 69 0.431 - - - -
2002/03 Cleveland Barons AHL 80 22nd 48 5 5 54 0.338 - - - -
2003/04 Cleveland Barons AHL 80 37 28 8th 7th 89 0.556 6th 2 4th Division semifinal
2004/05 Cleveland Barons AHL 80 35 37 6th 2 78 0.488 - - - -
2005/06 Cleveland Barons AHL 80 27 48 - 5 59 0.369 - - - -
2006/07 Worcester Sharks AHL 80 41 28 - 11 93 0.581 6th 2 4th Division semifinal
2007/08 Worcester Sharks AHL 80 32 37 - 11 75 0.469 - - - -
2008/09 Worcester Sharks AHL 80 42 35 - 3 87 0.544 12 6th 6th Division Final
2009/10 Worcester Sharks AHL 80 49 25th - 6th 104 0.650 11 6th 5 Division Final
2010/11 Worcester Sharks AHL 80 36 31 - 13 85 0.531 - - - -
2011/12 Worcester Sharks AHL 76 31 33 - 12 74 0.487 - - - -
2012/13 Worcester Sharks AHL 76 31 34 - 11 73 0.480 - - - -
2013/14 Worcester Sharks AHL 76 36 34 - 6th 78 0.513 - - - -
2014/15 Worcester Sharks AHL 76 41 29 - 6th 88 0.579 4th 1 3 Division semifinal
2015/16 San Jose Barracuda AHL 68 31 26th - 11 73 0.537 4th 1 3 Division semifinal
2016/17 San Jose Barracuda AHL
ECHL total 334 176 124 - 34 386 0.578 32 20th 12 4 participations
AHL total 1412 648 589 54 121 1471 0.521 67 28 39 9 participations

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personal data
SURNAME Summer, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sommer, Roy A. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland , California