Sauter Named Steelheads Head Coach
July 27, 2010
Boise, ID - The ECHL's Idaho Steelheads announced Tuesday that Hardy Sauter has been named head coach and director of hockey operations.
Sauter comes to Idaho after spending the last three seasons with the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League. He was an assistant coach in 2008 when the Chiefs won the Memorial Cup, the grandest prize in all of major-junior hockey. He spent the past two seasons as the team’s head coach, compiling a record of 91-45-8 along the way, reaching the WHL playoffs in each season.
The Maryfield, Saskatchewan, native was named to the Central Hockey League’s “All Decade” second team following a long playing career with the Oklahoma City Blazers that still has him ranked in the league’s all-time top ten in games played (590), assists (527), and points (669). He was named a CHL All-Star in each of his nine seasons with Oklahoma City and skated in 590 of a possible 598 games. He was the two-time CHL Defenseman of the Year (1997 and 1998).
Prior to his nine-year run in the CHL, he spent one year with the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks of the ECHL, where one of his teammates was Steelhead legend Cal Ingraham.
Team Press Release
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