Tom Rowe (ice hockey player)

Tom Rowe
Date of birth	May 23, 1956
place of birth	Lynn , Massachusetts , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1976 , 3rd round, 37th position Washington Capitals
WHA Amateur Draft	1976 , 2nd lap, 20th position Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
1973-1976	London Knights
1976-1980	Washington Capitals
1980-1982	Hartford Whalers
1982	Washington Capitals
1982-1983	Detroit Red Wings
1983-1984	Moncton Alpines

Tom Rowe
Coaching stations
2001-2004	Lowell Lock Monsters ( Assistant Trainer )
2004-2006	Lowell Lock Monsters
2006-2008	Albany River Rats
2008-2011	Carolina Hurricanes ( Assistant Coach )
2012-2014	Yaroslavl locomotive
2014-2015	San Antonio Rampage
2015-2016	Portland Pirates
2017	Florida panthers
2019-2020	EHC Linz

Thomas "Tom" John Rowe (born May 23, 1956 in Lynn , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach and official who worked for the Washington Capitals , Hartford Whalers and Detroit Red Wings, among others played in the National Hockey League (NHL). In the 2016/17 season he was general manager and interim head coach of the Florida Panthers from the NHL. Most recently he was the head coach of the EHC Linz .

Career

Tom Rowe began his career as a hockey player with the London Knights , for which he was active from 1973 to 1976 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey Association. He was then selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1976 in the third round as a total of 37th player by the Washington Capitals and in the WHA Amateur Draft 1976 in the second round as a total of 20th player from the Winnipeg Jets . The winger finally decided on the contract offer from the Washington Capitals, for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1976/77 season . In his rookie year , he scored one goal and two assists in twelve games. Most of the season, however, he spent with the Springfield Indians farm team in the American Hockey League .

On January 17, 1980 Rowe was transferred to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for Alan Hangsleben . In Hartford he stayed for two years across the seasons, but lost his regular place in the NHL during the 1981/82 season , whereupon he was ordered to the AHL farm team Binghamton Whalers for eight games . In January 1982, the American finally returned as a free agent to the Washington Capitals, but played there until the end of the season mainly in the AHL farm team, with the Hershey Bears . For the 1982/83 season , the right- shooter moved to the Detroit Red Wings , where he was regularly used in the NHL. Again, however, he had to complete 20 games in the AHL, in which he scored 16 goals and seven assists for Detroit's farm team Adirondack Red Wings . Most recently he was committed for the 1983/84 season by the Edmonton Oilers , but spent the entire season with their AHL farm team Moncton Alpines . He then ended his active career at the age of 28.

From 1991 to 1995 Rowe worked for his former team Hartford Whalers - for two years each as assistant general manager and game scout. He then worked for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League for eleven years . He was responsible for the ice hockey game operations and worked as Director of Player Personnel and General Manager. From 2001 to 2004 he was also the assistant coach of the Lowell Lock Monsters and from 2004 to 2006 their head coach. From 2006 to 2008 he was with the AHL team Albany River Rats behind the gang, with whom he was eliminated both times in the first playoff round of the Calder Cup . He then worked as an assistant coach for the NHL team Carolina Hurricanes for three years and as a professional player scout for the team for a year.

For the 2012/13 season Rowe was obliged as head coach of Lokomotive Yaroslavl from the Continental Hockey League and reached the first round of the play-offs with the team. At the beginning of the following season, the team lost 5 of 6 games, so that Rowe was dismissed on September 19, 2013. His successor was Pyotr Vorobjow . In November 2013 he was hired as the head coach of the San Antonio Rampage from the American Hockey League; he held the position until after the 2014/15 season, when the Portland Pirates became the new Florida Panthers farm team and Rowe is now based in Portland.

In January 2016, however, he was promoted to assistant to General Manager Dale Tallon within the Panthers organization , so that Scott Allen took over as head coach in Portland. In May 2016, Tallon was named President of Hockey Operations and Rowe took over as the Panthers' new general manager. In November 2016 Rowe fired the previous trainer Gerard Gallant and took over his position on an interim basis parallel to his work as general manager. At the end of the 2016/17 season, Rowe resigned from both positions and returned as an advisor to Dale Tallon, who returned to the position of general manager.

In January 2019 Rowe moved to Austria for EHC Linz in the Austrian Ice Hockey League , where he replaced Troy Ward as head coach. He held this position until the end of the 2019/20 season.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1973/74	London Knights	OHA Jr.		70	30th	39	69	99		-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	London Knights	OMJHL		63	19th	15th	34	137		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	London Knights	OMJHL		60	39	55	94	98		5	1	3	4th	14th
1976/77	Washington Capitals	NHL		12	1	2	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Springfield Indians	AHL		67	19th	23	42	117		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Washington Capitals	NHL		63	13	8th	21st	82		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Washington Capitals	NHL		69	31	30th	61	137		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Washington Capitals	NHL		41	10	17th	27	76		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Hartford Whalers	NHL		20th	6th	4th	10	30th		3	2	0	2	0
1980/81	Hartford Whalers	NHL		74	13	28	41	190		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Hartford Whalers	NHL		21st	4th	0	4th	36		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Washington Capitals	NHL		6th	1	1	2	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Binghamton Whalers	AHL		8th	5	3	8th	36		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Hershey Bears	AHL		34	17th	17th	34	89		5	3	4th	7th	33
1982/83	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		51	6th	10	16	44		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		20th	16	7th	23	26th		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Moncton Alpines	AHL		50	28	16	44	86		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				179	85	66	151	354		5	3	4th	7th	33
NHL overall				357	85	100	185	615		3	2	0	2	0
OHA Jr. total				70	30th	39	69	99		-	-	-	-	-
OMJHL overall				123	58	70	128	235		5	1	3	4th	14th

( 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 )

Web links

• Tom Rowe at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Tom Rowe at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ RIA Novosti , Russian Hockey: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Coach Fired , 19/09/2013, accessed October 29, 2013
2. ↑ EHC Linz , Tom Rowe will be the new Black Wings trainer , January 17, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2019.