John Fust (ice hockey)

John Fust (born March 5, 1972) is a Canadian-Swiss professional ice hockey coach and a former professional ice hockey player. He is currently head coach of EHC Visp of the Swiss National League B.

Playing career

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Fust played ice hockey at Princeton University. Following graduating in 1994[1] he turned pro and spent the remainder of his career in Switzerland, playing in the country's first and second division. He won the championship in Switzerland’s second-tier division National League B (NLB) with SC Herisau in 1997 and with SC Langnau one year later, helping both clubs to promotion to the top-flight National League A (NLA). Fust played in a total of 266 NLA contests for Langnau and HC Ambrì-Piotta, before spending the last two years of his playing career in the NLB, turning out for HC Forward Morges and HC Sierre.

Coaching career

Following the end of his playing career, Fust started an education at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, while working as a volunteer assistant coach of a college team.[2]

Fust kicked off his head coaching career at Swiss NLB side EHC Visp in December 2007.[3] He guided Visp to the NLB finals in 2010 and left the club at the end of the 2009-10 season[4] to take charge of NLA team SCL Tigers, where he had spent five years as a player.[5] Fust coached the Tigers to a sixth-place finish in the 2010-11 NLA regular season and their first ever trip to the NLA playoffs. He was relived of his head coaching duties in December 2012 after a series of eight straight losses.[6]

He was named assistant coach of NLA side Lausanne HC for the 2013-14 campaign[7] and opted to leave the team after one year to work for the Swiss ice hockey federation: Fust served as assistant to head coach Glen Hanlon on the men's national team and took over the head coaching job at the Swiss U20 national team.[8] After Hanlon stepped aside in October 2015, Fust served as interim head coach of the Swiss national team during the 2015 Deutschland-Cup[9] and was then succeeded by Patrick Fischer. Fust remained in his position at the U20 national team[10] until his contract with the Swiss ice hockey federation ended in 2016.[11]

In April 2016, he signed a contract to return to EHC Visp.[12] He took over the head coaching job at the club.

Personal

Fust’s grandparents emigrated from St. Gallen, Switzerland to Canada in the 1920s.[13]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Princeton in Minor League Hockey". GoPrincetonTigers.com. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. ↑ "My name is Fust, John Fust". www.worldjunior2015.com. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  3. ↑ www.20min.ch, www.20minuten.ch, 20 Minuten, 20 Min,. "20 Minuten – John Fust bleibt Trainer in Visp – Sporttelegramm". 20 Minuten. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  4. ↑ "Actualité – John Fust quittera Viège en fin de saison | Planète Hockey". Planète Hockey. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Actualité – John Fust poursuivra bien aux SCL Tigers | Planète Hockey". Planète Hockey. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  6. ↑ "John Fust in Langnau freigestellt". az Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  7. ↑ "Ex-SC-Langnau-Coach John Fust assistiert beim Aufsteiger HC Lausanne". az Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  8. ↑ "Hanlon to coach Swiss". www.iihf.com. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  9. ↑ cud. "Schweiz verpasst Turniersieg am Deutschland Cup". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  10. ↑ "Fischer wird Eishockey-Nationaltrainer: Aussergewöhnliche Lösung". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  11. ↑ "John Fust n'est plus l'entraîneur des M20". lematin.ch/. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  12. ↑ AG, EHC Visp Sport. "John Fust zum EHC Visp". www.ehc-visp.ch. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  13. ↑ swissNLAfanBackUp (2013-01-15), SF sportlounge: Interview mit John Fust, retrieved 2016-04-04
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