Dan Ratushny

Dan Ratushny
Born (1970-10-29) October 29, 1970 (age 54)
Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 205 lb (93 kg; 14 st 9 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Right
Played for Vancouver Canucks
EHC Olten
HPK
Ayr Scottish Eagles
Dundee Stars
National team  Canada
NHL draft 25th overall, 1989
Winnipeg Jets
Playing career 1992–2006

Daniel Paul Ratushny (born October 29, 1970) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, lawyer, and sports arbitrator.[1] A former professional ice hockey defenceman, he last served as head coach of Lausanne HC of the Swiss top-flight National League A (NLA).

Playing career

Ratushny was selected 25th overall in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets following his freshman season at Cornell University. He spent two more seasons at Cornell and was named All-America and ECAC first-team all-star in both 1990 and 1991. He would also represent Canada at the 1990 IIHF World U20 Championship, winning a gold medal.

Ratushny left college hockey after his junior year to join the Canadian National Team to participate at the 1992 Olympics (at the time, the national team was stocked with amateur players, as professional participation at the Olympics was prohibited). He spent the conclusion of the 1990–91 and the entire 1991–92 seasons with the national team, winning a silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.

Ratushny finished the 1991–92 season in Switzerland with EHC Olten before signing with the IHL Fort Wayne Komets for the 1992-93 season. He was dealt to the Vancouver Canucks at the NHL trade deadline in 1993, but only played one game for the Canucks.

From 1993 until 1999, Ratushny played in the AHL and IHL before continuing his career abroad in Japan, Finland, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

Ratushny made a brief appearance in an episode of the Scottish sitcom Still Game.

Daniel received his B.Sc. in Economics from Cornell in 1997. He earned his M.B.A. from Strathclyde Business School in 2003 and his LL.B. from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law in 2006.

From 2006 until 2009, Ratushny worked as a lawyer in the corporate department of the international law firm Stikeman Elliott.

In 2015 he earned his Executive Master in International Sports Law from ISDE Archived October 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine in Madrid, Spain and is currently a sports arbitrator.[2][3]

Coaching career

He served as assistant coach at the University of Ottawa in 2004-05.

From 2009 until 2011, Ratushny was the head coach of the Swiss National League B team EHC Olten. In 2011, he became head coach of the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) for three seasons. In the 2011-12 season, he led the Tigers to the DEL playoff semifinals and was named DEL Coach of the Year.

He signed with EC Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL) in 2014[4] and was named head coach of the Austrian national team.[5] Ratushny guided Salzburg to the championship his first year,[6] repeating this success the following season (2015–16).[7]

In April 2016, he was named head coach of Lausanne HC of the Swiss top-flight National League A (NLA).[8] In May 2016, he stepped down from his position as head coach of the Austrian national team to focus on his job in Lausanne.[9] He guided the team to a fourth-place finish in the 2016-17 regular season, while being named NLA Regular Season Coach of the Year.[10] Ratushny was sacked on October 11, 2017, after LHC[11] had garnered twelve points from the first ten games of the 2017-18 season.[12]

Awards and honors

Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1992 Albertville Team
Award Year
All-ECAC Hockey Rookie Team 1988–89 [13]
All-ECAC Hockey First Team 1989–90 [14]
AHCA East Second-Team All-American 1989–90 [15]
ECAC Hockey All-Tournament Team 1990 [14]
All-ECAC Hockey First Team 1990–91 [14]
AHCA East First-Team All-American 1990–91 [15]
German DEL Coach of the Year 2011-12 [16]
Swiss NLA Coach of the Year 2016-17 [17]
Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame 2018 [18]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1987–88 Nepean Raiders CJHL 54 8 20 28 116 — — — — —
1988–89 Cornell University ECAC 28 2 13 15 50 — — — — —
1988–89 Canada Intl 2 0 0 0 2 — — — — —
1989–90 Cornell University ECAC 26 5 14 19 54 — — — — —
1990–91 Cornell University ECAC 26 7 24 31 52 — — — — —
1990–91 Canada Intl 12 0 1 1 6 — — — — —
1991–92 Canada Intl 58 5 13 18 63 — — — — —
1991–92 EHC Olten NDA 2 0 0 0 2 — — — — —
1992–93 Vancouver Canucks NHL 1 0 1 1 2 — — — — —
1992–93 Fort Wayne Komets IHL 63 6 19 25 48 — — — — —
1993–94 Hamilton Canucks AHL 62 8 31 39 22 4 0 0 0 4
1994–95 Fort Wayne Komets IHL 72 3 25 28 46 4 0 1 1 8
1995–96 Peoria Rivermen IHL 45 7 15 22 45 12 3 4 7 10
1995–96 Carolina Monarchs AHL 23 5 10 15 28 — — — — —
1996–97 Québec Rafales IHL 50 14 23 37 34 — — — — —
1997–98 Albany River Rats AHL 39 8 5 13 10 9 0 3 3 8
1997–98 Québec Rafales IHL 20 3 9 12 22 — — — — —
1998–99 Kansas City Blades IHL 70 9 32 41 38 3 0 0 0 4
1999–2000 Seibu Tetsudo JPN 27 2 11 13 — — — — — —
2000–01 HPK Liiga 42 4 6 10 62 — — — — —
2002–03 Scottish Eagles GBR 4 0 1 1 2 — — — — —
2002–03 Dundee Stars GBR II 19 8 23 31 12 5 0 1 1 2
2005–06 IK Pantern SWE III 29 6 18 24 36 — — — — —
IHL totals 320 42 123 165 233 19 3 5 8 22
AHL totals 124 21 46 67 60 13 0 3 3 12

International

Year Team Event   GP G A Pts PIM
1990 Canada WJC 7 2 2 4 4
1992 Canada OG 8 0 0 0 4

References

  1. ^ "List of arbitrators (general list)". Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  2. ^ "Inaugural IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal" (PDF).
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  4. ^ "Eishockey: Meister Salzburg wechselt Trainer aus - sport.ORF.at". sport.ORF.at (in German). May 12, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  5. ^ KG, Kleine Zeitung GmbH & Co (July 23, 2014). "Kanadier Daniel Ratushny ist neuer ÖEHV-Teamchef". Kleine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  6. ^ "Red Bull Salzburg krönt sich zum EBEL-Meister". salzburg24.at. April 14, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  7. ^ "Eishockey: Red Bull Salzburg ist EBEL-Meister". kurier.at. April 12, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2016.
  8. ^ Club, Lausanne Hockey (April 26, 2016). "Communiqué de presse - Daniel Ratushny rejoint le Lausanne Hockey Club - Lausanne Hockey Club". Lausanne Hockey Club (in French). Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  9. ^ "Ratushny schmeißt beim ÖEHV hin". www.laola1.at. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  10. ^ "Berne et le LHC honorés par leurs pairs". tdg.ch/. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  11. ^ Club, Lausanne Hockey. "Dan Ratushny n'est plus le coach du Lausanne HC - Lausanne Hockey Club". www.lausannehc.ch (in French). Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
  12. ^ "Der HC Lausanne entlässt Trainer Ratushny | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). October 11, 2017. ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
  13. ^ "ECAC All-Rookie Teams". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  14. ^ a b c "ECAC All-Teams". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  15. ^ a b "Men's Ice Hockey Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
  16. ^ "DEL 2011/12 – Eishockeypedia". www.eishockeypedia.de (in German). Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  17. ^ "Berne et le LHC honorés par leurs pairs". tdg.ch/. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  18. ^ "Ten Greats To Join Athletics Hall of Fame In 2018". Cornell University. June 21, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.