Toby Petersen

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Toby Petersen
Date of birth October 27, 1978
place of birth Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
size 178 cm
Weight 89 kg
position Right wing
number # 17
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 9th lap, 244th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1996-2000 Colorado College
2000-2004 Pittsburgh Penguins
2004-2005 Edmonton Road Runners
2005-2006 Iowa stars
2006-2007 Edmonton Oilers
2007-2008 Iowa stars
2008–2012 Dallas Stars
2012-2014 Texas Stars

Tobias Emanuel Petersen (born October 27, 1978 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach , who played 416 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars between 1996 and 2014 has contested in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Petersen has been assistant coach for the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League since summer 2017 . In this league he won the Calder Cup both as a player and as a coach .

Career

Petersen was drafted in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in 244th place in the ninth round by the Pittsburgh Penguins . After four years at Colorado College , from 1996 to 2000, he played in the 2000/01 season for the first time in the National Hockey League . Most of the time, however, he spent with the farm team , the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League . In the 2001/02 season , the striker completed the season with the most NHL games so far, in which he made 79 missions and 18 points scorer . Despite this performance, he had to spend the following years again exclusively in the AHL.

Toby Petersen in the jersey of the Texas Stars

In the summer of 2004, Petersen moved from Pittsburgh to the Edmonton Oilers , but was used with two exceptions in the playoffs of the 2005/06 season there only in the AHL with the Edmonton Road Runners and later with the Iowa Stars . Since the stars were actually the AHL farm team of the Dallas Stars , he was able to establish contacts with this franchise and was hired by the stars as a free agent in summer 2007 . After another long service in Iowa, thanks to injuries to his teammates, he finally made it into the squad in time for the playoffs and showed his qualities as a defensive striker , especially in the series against the Detroit Red Wings . Overall, the attacker remained in the Stars' franchise until his retirement in June 2014; the last two years of which exclusively in the Texas Stars farm team . With these he won the Calder Cup at the end of his career .

After retiring Petersen took a coaching position with the Springfield Falcons in the AHL, where he acted as an assistant coach. He filled the same position in the following season with the Lake Erie Monsters , with whom he succeeded in winning the Calder Cup again. After another year with the team, which has now been renamed Cleveland Monsters , he joined the Rochester Americans as an assistant coach for the 2017/18 season .

International

For his home country, Petersen played in the junior division at the Junior World Championships in 1997 and 1998 . He won the silver medal in 1997. For the men's selection of the US boys, the striker was on the ice at the 2007 World Cup in Russia . There he finished fifth with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Colorado College WCHA 40 17th 21st 38 18th
1997/98 Colorado College WCHA 40 16 17th 33 34
1998/99 Colorado College WCHA 21st 12 12 24 2
1999/00 Colorado College WCHA 37 14th 19th 33 8th
2000/01 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 73 26th 41 67 22nd 21st 7th 6th 13 4th
2000/01 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 12 2 6th 8th 4th - - - - -
2001/02 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 79 8th 10 18th 4th - - - - -
2002/03 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 80 31 35 66 24 6th 1 3 4th 4th
2003/04 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 62 15th 29 44 4th 21st 2 10 12 1
2004/05 Edmonton Road Runners AHL 78 14th 15th 29 21st - - - - -
2005/06 Iowa stars AHL 79 26th 47 73 48 7th 2 4th 6th 2
2005/06 Edmonton Oilers NHL - - - - - 2 1 0 1 0
2006/07 Iowa stars AHL 7th 2 6th 8th 0 - - - - -
2006/07 Edmonton Oilers NHL 64 6th 9 15th 4th - - - - -
2007/08 Iowa stars AHL 64 21st 30th 51 24 - - - - -
2007/08 Dallas Stars NHL 8th 0 3 3 4th 16 0 0 0 2
2008/09 Dallas Stars NHL 57 4th 7th 11 14th - - - - -
2009/10 Dallas Stars NHL 78 9 6th 15th 6th - - - - -
2010/11 Dallas Stars NHL 60 2 4th 6th 8th - - - - -
2010/11 Texas Stars AHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Dallas Stars NHL 39 2 3 5 6th - - - - -
2012/13 Texas Stars AHL 74 8th 16 24 6th 9 0 0 0 2
2012/13 Dallas Stars NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Texas Stars AHL 33 5 6th 11 6th 7th 0 1 1 0
NCAA overall 138 59 69 128 60
AHL total 550 148 226 374 157 71 12 24 36 24
NHL overall 398 33 48 81 50 18th 1 0 1 2

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1997 United States June World Cup 2nd place, silver 6th 0 2 2 0
1998 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 0 2 2 0
2007 United States WM 5th place 7th 2 1 3 4th
Juniors overall 13 0 4th 4th 0
Men overall 7th 2 1 3 4th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Toby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Tobias Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota