Sean Simpson

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Sean Simpson
Date of birth May 4th 1960
place of birth Essex , England , UK
size 183 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 7th round, 141st position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1976-1977 Kingston Canadians
1977-1981 Ottawa 67's
1981-1982 New Brunswick Hawks
1982-1983 Springfield Indians
1983-1984 Tilburg Trappers
1985 Zurich SC
1985-1988 Tilburg Trappers
1988-1989 Rotterdam pandas
1989-1990 EHC Olten
1990-1991 HC Fiemme Cavalese

Sean Ronald Simpson (born May 4, 1960 in Essex , United Kingdom ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . Since October 2019 he has been a coaching advisor at the Swiss first division club Friborg-Gottéron .

Career

As a player

Sean Simpson began his career as a hockey player with the Ontario Hockey Association , where he played for the Kingston Canadians for one year from 1976 to 1981 and then for the Ottawa 67’s for four years . During this time he was selected in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round as a total of 141 players by the Chicago Black Hawks . In the 1981/82 season he was with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the New Brunswick Hawks on the ice. Since his contract was not renewed, he joined the Springfield Indians for the following year .

In the summer of 1983 Simpson moved to Europe , where he first played one season for the Tilburg Trappers from the Dutch Eredivisie , for which he was active for three more seasons after a short detour to Zürcher SC . In his first season with the Trappers, he was the top scorer of the league. In the 1988/89 season Simpson stood for their league rivals, the Rotterdam Pandas , on the ice and was top scorer in the Netherlands for the second time in his career.

After one season each at EHC Olten from the Swiss National League A and at HC Fiemme Cavalese from the Italian A1 series , Simpson ended his playing career in 1991.

International

With the Canadian national team Simpson took part in the Junior World Championship in 1980 and reached fifth place.

As a trainer

After the end of his active career, Simpson took over the position of elite trainer at EV Zug in 1991 and became assistant trainer alongside Jim Koleff in 1995. In 1997 he became head coach of the first team, where he became Swiss champion in 1998. In 1999 he took over the position of head coach at the newly founded Munich Barons from the German Ice Hockey League , with whom he became German champion in the first season . After two more years in Munich, Simpson initially remained head coach of the club that had moved to Hamburg and played as Hamburg Freezers from 2002 . He left this in 2003. After an engagement with EV Zug in the Swiss National League A, in which he was already active as a coach in the 1990s, Simpson took over the coaching position at the ZSC Lions in summer 2008 , with which he won the 2009 Champions Hockey League and won the Victoria Cup .

Placements of Switzerland under Sean Simpson
year competition place rank
2010 WM Cologne & Mannheim , Germany 8th.
2011 WM Bratislava & Košice , Slovakia 9.
2012 WM Helsinki , Finland , Stockholm , Sweden 11.
2013 WM Stockholm , Sweden , Helsinki , Finland 2.
2014 Olympia Sochi , Russia 9.
2014 WM Minsk , Belarus 10.

In February 2010, Simpson succeeded Ralph Krueger as coach of the Swiss national ice hockey team and subsequently brought the national team closer to the top of the world. At the 2013 World Cup, Switzerland won the silver medal under his leadership. On March 2, 2014, Sean Simpson announced his resignation as national coach of Switzerland after the 2014 World Cup and then led the team to 10th place at the world tournament. He had previously signed a contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl from the KHL in April 2014 . At the end of September of the same year, he was dismissed after nine KHL game days due to unsuccessfulness together with Colin Muller . Two months later, he and Muller succeeded Felix Hollenstein and Kimmo Rintanen at Kloten Flyers .

Simpson and Muller reached an agreement with Kloten in May 2016 to terminate their existing contracts. The association had announced an austerity course and was taken over by a new owner.

On May 11, 2016, Simpson was hired by the Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) as head coach. In the 2016/17 season, Simpson led the team to second place in the DEL points round, in the playoff quarter-finals it was the end of the line against the Eisbären Berlin. After leaving in March 2017, Simpson hit the headlines for a verbal attack against a reporter, but apologized for his behavior shortly thereafter. He was released in early December 2017. "With this decision, the club management is reacting to the season that has so far been mixed," said the Mannheimers, explaining the separation. At the time of the separation, the Adler were in seventh place in the table. In October 2019 he was employed by Friborg-Gottéron as a trainer consultant.

Achievements and Awards

AHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 2 140 33 37 70 10
Playoffs 1 11 1 0 1 0

Private

Sean Simpson lives with his family in Risch-Rotkreuz in the canton of Zug in Switzerland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Sean Simpson takes over with immediate effect
  2. ↑ Sean Simpson leaves - hockey national team has to look for a new coach. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. March 2, 2014, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Sean Simpson - Dismissed in Russia , September 28, 2014
  4. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , change of coach at Kloten Flyers: Sean Simpson succeeds Felix Hollenstein , December 19, 2014
  5. ↑ EHC Kloten media release - May 2, 2016. (No longer available online.) In: EHC Kloten. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Dino Kessler: Investor Lehmann on the rescue of Kloten: "We will not spend more than we take" - view. In: www.blick.ch. Retrieved May 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Sean Simpson becomes head coach of the Eagles. (No longer available online.) In: adler-mannheim.de. Archived from the original on May 11, 2016 ; accessed on May 11, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Adler trainer Simpson threatens SWR reporter: "A stupid question and I'll knock you out" In: Spiegel Online . March 22, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ After outburst against reporters: Adler coach Simpson apologizes. In: swr.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  10. ^ Adler split up with Teal Fowler, Sean Simpson and Colin Müller. In: adler-mannheim.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  11. ^ Adler Mannheim: New trainer of Adler Mannheim presented. In: swr.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Daniel Germann: HC Friborg-Gottéron relies on a Canadian coaching duo. In: nzz.ch. October 31, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 .
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Squad of Friborg-Gottéron in the 2019/20 season
personal data
SURNAME Simpson, Sean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simpson, Sean Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Essex , UK