Ted Sator

Ted Sator
Date of birth	November 18, 1949
place of birth	New Hartford , New York , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Right wing
Career stations
1969-1972	Bowling Green State University
1972-1973	Long Island Ducks

Theodore "Ted" Sator (born November 18, 1949 in New Hartford , New York ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

Ted Sator began his career as a hockey player in the team at Bowling Green State University , which he attended from 1969 to 1972 and for which he was active in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Then the winger received a contract with the Long Island Ducks from the professional Eastern Hockey League . For this he was an assist in three games in the 1972/73 season. He then had to end his active career because of a serious knee injury.

After he had been committed as a scout by the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League in the 1982/83 season , he was given the opportunity to work as an assistant coach for their NHL team in the following two years. He then made the leap to head coach. From 1985 to 1989 he was responsible for two seasons each of the NHL teams of the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabers . He then moved back into the second tier and also looked after the Boston Bruins as an assistant coach for two years .

In the summer of 1991, Sator went to Europe, where he was the head coach of HC Devils Milano from the Italian Serie A for two years . In both seasons he led his team to win the national championship . This was followed by the return to the NHL for the American, where he worked as an assistant coach for the NHL teams of the St. Louis Blues , Hartford Whalers and Vancouver Canucks for the following four seasons . In parallel to his work at the Canucks, he also worked for their farm team at the time , the Syracuse Crunch from the American Hockey League (also as an assistant coach) in the 1996/97 season .

From 1997 to 2002 Sator looked after the New Orleans Brass from the ECHL for the full five years of its existence as head coach. He then returned to Europe, where he mainly coached the Espoo Blues in the Finnish SM-liiga from 2002 to 2004 and the Hungarian representative Alba Volán Székesfehérvár in the Austrian ice hockey league from 2007 to 2009 . In November 2009 he became head coach of the Croatian EBEL newcomer KHL Medveščak Zagreb , after the Italian-Canadian Enio Sacilotto had to vacate his post prematurely. In 2011 he left the KHL again and became a coach at Lindenwood University .

International

Ted Sator looked after the US national ice hockey team as an assistant coach at the 1996 World Cup . With this he won the bronze medal. At the B World Championship in 2007 he was promoted to the A World Championship with Slovenia . Nevertheless, he left the team after this success. At the World Cup in Division I in 2010 and 2011, he was the head coach of the Hungarian national team .

Achievements and Awards

• 1992 Italian champion with HC Devils Milano
• 1993 Italian champion with HC Devils Milano
• 1996 bronze medal at the world championship (as assistant coach of the USA )
• 2007 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I (as head coach of Slovenia )

Web links

• Ted Sator at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ted Sator at eliteprospects.com (English)