Ted Sator

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Ted Sator
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Born (1949-11-18) November 18, 1949 (age 74)
New Hartford, New York, U.S.
Occupationprofessional ice hockey coach

Ted Sator (born November 18, 1949) is an American professional ice hockey coach. He has twelve seasons of National Hockey League (NHL) coaching experience, serving as an assistant coach for various teams and head coach of the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. He has also spent time coaching in the American Hockey League (AHL) and ECHL along with coaching in Europe including stints as the Slovenian and Hungarian national ice hockey teams. He is a current assistant men's ice hockey coach at Lindenwood University.

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Playing career

Sator played college hockey for Bowling Green State University. [1] During his senior year, the 1971–72 season, for the Falcons, Sator played 27 games, where he tallied 5 goals and assisted on 6 others; helping the Falcons finish the season with a record of 21-10-2. [2] He was also selected to play with the U.S. World Team in Lake Placid, New York. [1] Following his collegiate career, Sator joined the Long Island Ducks of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL) in the following year. Sator's playing career came to an end due to a knee injury after only playing three games for the Ducks. [1]

Coaching career

Professional coaching career

Sator began his coaching career in the early 1980s, serving as head coach of Rögle BK for the 1982-83 season in the Swedish Division 1 league. [3] That same year he also spent time as a scout for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. [3] Sator joined the Flyers coaching staff the following season, becoming assistant coach under head coach Bob McCammon during the 1983-84 season [4] [5] and head coach Mike Keenan during the 1984–85 season. [1] [6]

Sator was named head coach of the New York Rangers in 1985 [7] [8] [9] and led the team to the Conference finals in his first year when the team lost to the eventual Stanley Cup Champion Montreal Canadiens. [1] The following season, General Manager Craig Patrick was replaced by Phil Esposito [10] [11] and he was fired and replaced by Tom Webster after only 23 games. [1] [12] Sator quickly found a new position when he became head coach of the Buffalo Sabres the following year. [1] In his first full season with the Buffalo Sabres they achieved the biggest point improvement in the NHL. [1] [13] He coached to two third-place finishes but was unable to get the team past the Stanley Cup finalist Boston Bruins in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and was relieved of his coaching duties in 1989. [14] [15]

Over the next two seasons, Sator was an assistant coach with the Boston Bruins before traveling to Italy to become head coach of the HC Devils Milano of the Serie A in 1991. [3] Sator's team went undefeated on in his first season as head coach of the Devils and won the Serie A championship. [1] Sator led the Devils to back-to-back Serie A league championships when the team won again in 1993. [1] Sator returned to the United States and NHL the following season, taking an assistant coaching position with the St. Louis Blues. [3] After two seasons in St. Louis, Sator spent the next two seasons as assistant coach of the Hartford Whalers, and Vancouver Canucks (where he split time between Vancouver and the Canucks American Hockey League farm team, the Syracuse Crunch. [3] Beginning in 1997, Sator began a successful five year coaching stint with the New Orleans Brass, [3] where he was also Director of Player Personnel. During his tenure with the Brass, the team made the ECHL playoffs every season and never had a losing season record. [1]

Sator returned to Europe after the Brass folded in 2002. Sator became the head coach of the Espoo Blues in the SM-liiga for the 2003-2004 season. [3] From 2007 to 2009 he served as head coach of the Hungarian Austrian Hockey League team Alba Volán Székesfehérvár. [1] In 2009, he was hired as head coach of the KHL Medveščak, based in Zagreb, Croatia. [16] In the team's first season in the Austrian Hockey League the team qualified for last Playoff seed. The team stunned top seeded Graz 99ers in the Quarterfinals, winning the series in six games, before suffering elimination to eventual champions EC Red Bull Salzburg in the semi-finals. [16]

Amateur and collegiate coaching career

Sator then moved back to St. Louis, Missouri in 2011 and became assistant hockey coach for Lafayette High School, located in Wildwood, Missouri. [17] For the 2011-2012 season, he was hired aas assistant coach of the Lindenwood University men's ice hockey team. [18] He joins the team under head coach Rick Zombo, a former NHL defenseman who played for the St. Louis Blues during Sator's tenure as assistant coach for the Blues in the early 1990s. [18]

International coaching career

Sator served as Bob Johnson's assistant coach for Team USA on two Canada Cup teams and has sat on the Executive Board of USA Hockey. [1] He was assistant coach with United States men's national ice hockey team in Vienna for the 1996 World Championships where the team took its first medal in 36 years. [1] Sator served as the head coach of the Slovenian national ice hockey team during the 2006-2007 season, [3] bringing them back into the A Pool. [1] Later he obtained a position as the head coach of the Hungarian national ice hockey team from 2009 to 2011. [19]

Coaching statistics (NHL head coach)

SeasonTeamLeagueTypeGPWLTOTLPCTPlayoff Result
1985–86 New York Rangers NHLHead Coach80363860.487Lost in Round 3
1986–87New York RangersNHLHead Coach1951040.348(fired)
1987–88 Buffalo Sabres NHLHead Coach803732110.531Lost in Round 1
1988–89Buffalo SabresNHLHead Coach80383570.519Lost in Round 1
TOTAL26311611730

Coaching statistics (North American other)

SeasonTeamLeagueTypeGPWLTOTLPCTPlayoff Result
1983–84 Philadelphia Flyers NHL Assistant Coach
1984–85Philadelphia FlyersNHLAssistant Coach
1989–90 Boston Bruins NHLAssistant Coach
1990–91Boston BruinsNHLAssistant Coach
1993–94 St. Louis Blues NHLAssistant Coach
1994–95St. Louis BluesNHLAssistant Coach
1995–96 Hartford Whalers NHLAssistant Coach
1996–97 Syracuse Crunch AHL Assistant Coach
1996–97 Vancouver Canucks NHLAssistant Coach
1997–98 New Orleans Brass ECHL Head Coach703624100.586Lost in Round 1
1998–99New Orleans BrassECHLHead Coach703027130.521Lost in Round 3
1999–00New Orleans BrassECHLHead Coach70362707.564Lost in Round 1
2000–01New Orleans BrassECHLHead Coach723525120.569Lost in Round 2
2001–02New Orleans BrassECHLHead Coach72363240.528Lost in Round 1

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Preceded by Head coach of New York Rangers
1985–86		Succeeded by
Preceded by Head coach of Buffalo Sabres
1987–89		Succeeded by
Preceded by Head coach of Blues
2003		Succeeded by
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