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Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Suter attended Madison East High School.
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Bob Suter
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He was mostly noted for his rough play, setting several Badger records for penalty minutes before leaving in 1979. Suter was selected with the 120th pick in the 1977 National Hockey League Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and also northern 58 overall in the 1977 World Hockey Association draft by the Birmingham Bulls.
He rejected Los Angeles" contract offer following the 1980 Olympics, and instead sat out 1980-1981 season to become an unrestricted free agent.
He came out of retirement in the spring of 1981 to play for the United States team at the 1981 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Stockholm. Suter signed with the Minnesota North Stars as unrestricted free agent in 1981, but spent the entire 1981-1982 season in the Central Hockey League with the Nashville South Stars farm team
He retired in 1982 without playing a single game in the National Hockey League.
He also coached youth hockey in Madison after his retirement and became a part-owner and director of Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton, Wisconsin. Ten months after Suter"s death the Capitol Ice Arena was renamed in his honor and is now known as "Bob Suter"s Capitol Ice Arena."
Suter died on September 9, 2014, of a heart attack suffered at Capitol Ice Arena.
He is the first player from of the 1980 United States. Olympic hockey team to pass away.
The team"s head coach, Herb Brooks, was killed in an automobile accident in 2003. Suter was not featured in a 1981 television movie about the 1980 United States. hockey team called Miracle on Ice, except in archival footage of the gold medal ceremony. In the 2004 Disney film Miracle, he is portrayed by Pete Duffy.
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