Steve Spott

Steve Spott (born May 18, 1968) is the current head coach and general manager of the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League.

Playing career
Spott played NCAA hockey with Colgate University from 1986–1990, as he helped the team win the ECAC Hockey championship in 1990 as Colgate defeated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5-4 to win the Whitelaw Cup. Colgate then went on to the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship, however, they lost to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the final game played at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

After college hockey, Spott turned pro, and spent the 1990-91 season with the Richmond Renegades of the East Coast Hockey League and the Newmarket Saints of the American Hockey League. Spott played with the Heerenveen Flyers of the Eredivisie in Holland for the 1991-92 season before retiring.

Coaching career
Spott was selected OCAA Coach of the Year in 1994-95 with Seneca College, and then spent the time coaching the Markham Waxers of the Metro Junior A Hockey League before landing his first Ontario Hockey League job as an assistant coach of the Plymouth Whalers from 1997–2001, which is where he first worked with Whalers head coach Peter DeBoer. In 2001, both DeBoer and Spott would leave the Whalers and move to the Kitchener Rangers, where DeBoer was once again the head coach and general manager, while Spott took the assistant coaching job and assistant general manager job. DeBoer would leave the Rangers in 2008 to take a job with the Florida Panthers, and the Rangers promoted Spott to become the head coach and general manager of the club.

In his first season as head coach with the Rangers, the rebuilding club failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since the 2000-01 season.