Former Islanders coach Ron Waske, who held the function in the course of the workforce’s 4 consecutive Stanley Cup titles, has died, the workforce introduced Sunday.
He was 77.
“The Isles are saddened by the passing of Ron Waske,” the Islanders wrote in a put up on X, accompanied by a photograph of Waske holding up the Stanley Cup. “Our ideas and prayers are with Ron’s household, pals and family members.”
Waske, a local of Camden, N.Y., spent 10 seasons working with the Islanders from 1974-84. He was additionally Staff Canada’s athletic coach on the 1982 Canada Cup.
A product of St. Lawrence College, Waske returned there after working for the Islanders, even teaching the ladies’s workforce for 2 seasons from 1997-99 earlier than returning to the athletic coach function. He labored on the college for 26 whole years and was inducted into the college’s athletic Corridor of Fame in 2019.
“I do know I gained’t be getting Stanley Cup bonus cash anymore,” Waske mentioned in a 1984 New York Occasions story asserting he could be leaving the Islanders. “However it’s a much less hectic life in school.
Waske performed each hockey and baseball as a scholar at St. Lawrence, and have become the one participant within the college’s hockey historical past to play each ahead and goaltender in the identical sport.
He was elected to the Skilled Athletic Trainers Society Corridor of Fame in 2006 and has a plaque within the Hockey Corridor of Fame’s part for trainers as properly.
The reason for demise is unknown.
