SABRES NAME REDMOND PLAYER DEVELOPMENT COACH
Eddie Shore Award winner and two-time AHL All-Star played three seasons with Amerks
Aug 9, 2023The Buffalo Sabres announced today that Zach Redmond, a two-time American Hockey League All-Star and 2019 Eddie Shore Award winner as the league’s top defenseman, has been named Player Development Coach.
Redmond returns to the Sabres organization after a three-year stint with EHC München of the German league to close out his 12-year professional playing career. In 140 games with the Red Bull, he totaled 33 goals and 79 assists for 112 points over 140 games from 2020-23. He also added six goals and seven assists in 25 playoff contests while helping the club to three consecutive postseason appearances, culminating with a Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) championship in 2023 following a loss to Eisbären Berlin in the DEL Finals the previous year.
Prior to completing his career overseas, Redmond spent three years with the Rochester Americans, registering 41 goals, 86 assists and 127 points in 183 contests with the club from 2018-20. He also notched a pair of goals in six Calder Cup Playoff appearances with the Amerks.
He finished the 2018-19 regular season with career-best totals of 21 goals (tops among all AHL defensemen) and 50 points, along with a plus-13 rating in just 58 games for the Americans, who finished with the fourth-best record in the AHL. He tied for the overall league lead with nine game-winning tallies and ranked first among blueliners with 10 power-play goals (tied) and 200 shots on goal on his way to earning the Eddie Shore Award as the AHL’s outstanding defenseman.
Redmond, who broke a 46-year-old franchise record for goals by a defenseman in a single season, was also voted a First Team AHL All-Star that season following a Second Team selection in 2017-18. He remains one of only three defensemen in franchise history ever to receive the Eddie Shore Award, joining AHL Hall of Famer Steve Kraftcheck (1959) and Hockey Hall of Famer Al Arbour (1965).
The Traverse City, Mich. native totaled 70 goals and 157 assists for 227 points in 373 career AHL games with Rochester, St. John’s, San Antonio and Chicago, as well as nine goals and 29 assists in 133 NHL contests with Buffalo, Montreal, Colorado and Winnipeg.
Redmond, who successfully resumed his career following a potentially life-threatening laceration to his femoral artery in 2013, was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in 2008 and was acquired by Buffalo in a trade with Montreal on Oct. 4, 2017.
Over his 12-year playing career, Redmond combined for 83 goals and 194 assists for 277 points in 646 regular-season contests while also totaling 34 points (12+22) in 66 playoff games.
Redmond represented the United States at the 2015 World Championship in Prague, earning a bronze medal after notching one assist in five games.