Rob Doyle

Canadian-born Rob Doyle became all-time leading scoring Colorado College defenceman (202 points in 151 NCAA games) and graduated with a history degree. He won the Calder Cup 1989 with Adriondacks but never cracked the Detroit NHL lineup and moved to Austria in 1989.

Doyle participated at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics representing Austria. The team was eliminated in the group stage and finally placed 12th and last, after losing the match for 11th place to Norway 3-1. Doyle won 31 Austria international caps and scored 13 (6+7) points.

Doyle played 11 seasons in Austria and another five in Germany. He then played with EC Graz, EC Klagenfurt, Frankfurt Lions, EHC Lustenau, VEU Feldkirch, Villacher SV, and Linz EHC.

Doyle was once suspended for eight games after he cross-checked Daniel Kunce in the neck during a scandalous game against Frankfurt at Nuremberg in September 1997.

Doyle scored 1,288 (367+921) career points - and more than 2,000 penalty minutes. He retired as a player in 2006 and after returning to his home country Canada, established his home in Victoria, British Columbia, with his wife and daughter. Doyle worked as Tampa Bay NHL-scout for a few years before becoming business development manager for western Canada for a transformers manufacturing company.