Steve Ludzik

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CanadaCanada  Steve Ludzik Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 3, 1961
place of birth Etobicoke , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 2nd round, 28th position
Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1978-1981 Niagara Falls Flyers
1981-1982 New Brunswick Hawks
1982-1988 Chicago Black Hawks
1988-1989 Saginaw Hawks
1989-1992 Rochester Americans
1992-1993 EK Zell am See

Stephen Paul "Steve" Łudzik senior (* 3. April 1961 in Etobicoke , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , - coach , and - functionary , who during his playing career 1978-1993 among other 468 games for the Chicago Blackhawks and Buffalo Sabers has played in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Then Ludzik worked as a trainer for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL. His greatest sporting successes were winning the Calder Cup as an active player in the New Brunswick Hawks and the Turner Cup as head coach of the Detroit Vipers .

Career

Player career

Ludzik began his junior career first in the lower class junior leagues of the Canadian province of Ontario , where he played for the Markham Waxers in the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League . For the 1978/79 season , the center forward moved to the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . He was active there for a total of three years and collected 408 points scorer in 235 missions during this period . Ludzik narrowly missed winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup in his rookie season after a seven-game final series against the Peterborough Petes . He was also selected in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in the second round in 28th position by the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League .

With the end of his junior career Ludzik was committed in the summer of 1981 by the Chicago Black Hawks, who used him with the exception of eight NHL appearances exclusively in the American Hockey League . There the attacking player went hunting for goals for the New Brunswick Hawks farm team . With the team led by Mike Kaszycki and Steve Larmer , the rookie won the Calder Cup at the end of the season , to which he contributed 72 points in 88 appearances. His achievements gave the 21-year-old a regular place in the Chicago squad for the 1982/83 season - but no longer in the role of a scorer as in the junior area, but as a physically active player in a defensive role. In this position, the Canadian was a fixture in the traditional franchise's squad for the next six years . The season 1988/89 he spent but mostly in the AHL with the Saginaw Hawks . The Chicago Blackhawks only had six appearances this season.

As a result of the demotion, Ludzik's services for the NHL team had become obsolete, and he was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers in September 1989 together with a six- round suffrage in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft . In return, the Sabers gave goalkeeper Jacques Cloutier and a five-round suffrage of the same draft to Chicago. For Buffalo, however, the striker only played eleven missions before he was also posted to the AHL farm team, the Rochester Americans . For the Amerks Ludzik was active until the end of the 1991/92 season , where he relied on his former scorer skills and in two of the three years reached both the mark of 50 points and 20 goals. The now 31-year-old spent his last professional playing time between autumn 1992 and spring 1993 with the Austrian first division club EK Zell am See .

Coaching career

CanadaCanada  Steve Ludzik
Coaching stations
1993-1995 Muskegon Fury (Trainer / GM)
1995-1999 Detroit Vipers
1999-2001 Tampa Bay Lightning
2002-2003 Mississauga IceDogs (Trainer / GM)
2003 San Antonio Rampage
2003-2004 Florida Panthers (assistant coach)
2004-2005 San Antonio Rampage

After retiring as an active player, Ludzik remained connected to ice hockey and immediately accepted the post of head coach and general manager of the Muskegon Fury from the Colonial Hockey League in the summer of 1993 . He looked after the team in this double function over a period of two years. In his first year he received the award as coach of the year in the young league; the second year he closed with a defeat in the six-game final series against defending champions Thunder Bay Senators .

As a result, Ludzik resigned both offices and left the team. He hired for the 1995/96 season as an assistant coach with the Detroit Vipers from the higher-class International Hockey League and initially worked there under head coach and general manager Rick Dudley , whom he replaced as coach during the season, initially on an interim basis . In the following game year Ludzik led the team as a full head coach to win the Turner Cup . This was the high point of his commitment in Detroit, which lasted until the summer of 1999, with the team once again reaching the final series as defending champions. There she was defeated by the Chicago Wolves .

Ludzik's achievements behind the gang were also the franchises of the National Hockey League , so that he was committed to the 1999/2000 season by the Tampa Bay Lightning from the NHL as head coach. There Rick Dudley took over the post of General Manager, with whom he had already worked successfully in Detroit. In Tampa, however, the successes failed, and after the team had missed the playoffs both in the first year under his direction, and had a bad start in the second year, Ludzik was replaced during the season by John Tortorella .

He paused for a year after his resignation and started the 2002/03 season as head coach and general manager in personal union at the Mississauga IceDogs from the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League . However, his tenure ended after only one game year, as he was signed by the Florida Panthers franchise from the NHL as head coach for their farm team , the San Antonio Rampage from the American Hockey League . The engagement as head coach ended after twelve games, as Ludzik was promoted to assistant coach of the Florida Panthers. His position was taken by Scott Allen until the end of the season , who he replaced in this post again in the 2004/05 season - when the NHL season was completely canceled due to another lockout . After the end of the game year, Ludzik retired completely as a coach. During his coaching activity, Ludzik had also repeatedly acted as an expert on ice hockey broadcasts for various television channels.

As Ludzik announced in 2012, he has had Parkinson's disease since 2000 . This was diagnosed during his tenure with the Tampa Bay Lightning. In 2013, he opened the Steve Ludzik Parkinson's Rehab Center in St. Catharines near his home in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada . This is financed by donations from the Steve Ludzik Foundation, which he set up, and private donors.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1978/79 Niagara Falls Flyers OMJHL 68 32 65 97 138 20th 7th 17th 24 48
1979/80 Niagara Falls Flyers OMJHL 67 43 76 119 102 10 6th 6th 12 16
1980/81 Niagara Falls Flyers OHL 58 50 92 142 108 12 5 9 14th 40
1981/82 New Brunswick Hawks AHL 73 21st 41 62 142 15th 3 7th 10 6th
1981/82 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 8th 2 1 3 2 - - - - -
1982/83 Chicago Black Hawks  NHL 66 6th 19th 25th 63 13 3 5 8th 20th
1983/84 Chicago Black Hawks  NHL 80 9 20th 29 73  4th 0 1 1 9
1984/85 Chicago Black Hawks  NHL 79 11 20th 31 86 15th 1 1 2 16
1985/86 Chicago Black Hawks  NHL 49 6th 5 11 21st 3 0 0 0 12
1986/87 Chicago Blackhawks  NHL 52 5 12 17th 34 4th 0 0 0 0
1987/88 Chicago Blackhawks  NHL 73 6th 15th 21st 40 5 0 1 1 13
1988/89 Saginaw Hawks IHL 65 21st 57 78 129 6th 0 1 1 17th
1988/89 Chicago Black Hawks  NHL 6th 1 0 1 8th - - - - -
1989/90 Rochester Americans AHL 54 25th 29 54 71 16 5 6th 11 57
1989/90 Buffalo Sabers NHL 11 0 1 1 6th - - - - -
1990/91 Rochester Americans AHL 65 22nd 29 51 137 8th 3 5 8th 6th
1991/92 Rochester Americans AHL 45 6th 22nd 28 88 14th 2 1 3 8th
1992/93 EK Zell am See OIL 51 17th 36 53 64
O (MJ) HL total 193 125 233 358 348 42 18th 32 50 104
AHL total 237 74 121 195 438 53 13 19th 32 77
NHL overall 424 46 93 139 333 44 4th 8th 12 70

( 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 )

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U OTN Pt space Sp S. N result
1999/00 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 82 19th 47 9 7th 54 4th, Southeast not qualified
2000/01 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 39 12 20th 5 2 (31) 5th, Southeast Dismissed during the season
NHL overall 121 31 67 14th 9 85 0 division title - - - 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

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personal data
SURNAME Ludzik, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludzik, Stephen Paul senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Etobicoke , Ontario