[2] During the 1992 season, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which was in remission for a period until it metastasized two years as a stomach tumor.
He returned to coaching and led EV Zug to its first-ever league championship series.
He returned to coach Lugano to a victory in the 1999 Swiss championship, the team's first win in nine seasons.
He later became coach, and later general manager, of the Lausanne Hockey Club, and was a member of the team's board of directors at the time of his death.
[2] He was an assistant coach on Pat Quinn's Team Canada staff that won the silver medal at the 2006 Spengler Cup held in Davos, Switzerland.