John Fust (ice hockey)

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John Fust
John Fust - Lausanne Hockey Club vs. HC Viège, 01.04.2010.jpg
John Fust in 2010
Born (1972-03-05) March 5, 1972 (age 49)
Montreal, QC, CAN
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position Forward
Shot Left
Played for SCL Tigers
HC Ambrì-Piotta
Playing career 1994–2006

John Fust (born March 5, 1972) is a Canadian-Swiss professional ice hockey coach and a former professional ice hockey player.

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 relieved 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. In March 2017, he parted ways with the club after falling to HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the NLB quarterfinals.[13] Fust was named head coach of Swiss National League team Lausanne HC on February 8, 2018, replacing Yves Sarault.[14] He stayed on the job until the end of the 2017-18 season and took over the job as head of the youth development at Lausanne in May 2018.[15] Additionally, he was named an assistant coach for the Danish Men's National Team in April 2019.[16]

Personal[]

Fust's grandparents emigrated from St. Gallen, Switzerland to Canada in the 1920s.[17]

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. ^ AG, EHC Visp Sport. "Erste Schritte für die Saison 2017/18". www.ehc-visp.ch. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  14. ^ Club, Lausanne Hockey. "John Fust appelé à la barre pour passer un cap nécessaire - Lausanne Hockey Club". www.lausannehc.ch (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-02-10. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  15. ^ Reynard, Jérôme (2018-05-18). "LHC: John Fust nommé directeur de la formation". VQH (in French). ISSN 1424-4039. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  16. ^ "John Fust avec Heinz Ehlers et le Danemark". planetehockey.com. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  17. ^ swissNLAfanBackUp (2013-01-15), SF sportlounge: Interview mit John Fust, retrieved 2016-04-04
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