Bill Guerin

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Bill Guerin
Date of birth November 9, 1970
place of birth Worcester , Massachusetts , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1989 , 1st round, 5th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1989-1991 Boston College
1991-1998 New Jersey Devils
1998-2000 Edmonton Oilers
2000-2002 Boston Bruins
2002-2006 Dallas Stars
2006-2007 St. Louis Blues
2007 San Jose Sharks
2007-2009 New York Islanders
2009-2010 Pittsburgh Penguins

William Robert "Bill" Guerin (born November 9, 1970 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player and current - functional , who in the course of his active career between 1991 and 2010, among other things, 1403 games for the New Jersey Devils , Edmonton Oilers , Boston Bruins , Dallas Stars , St. Louis Blues , San Jose Sharks , New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Guerin, who took part in the NHL All-Star Game four times, celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the New Jersey Devils by winning the Stanley Cup in 1995 and the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009 as well as in the jersey of the United States national team by winning the World Cup of Hockey 1996 . Since August 2019 he has been the general manager of the Minnesota Wild in the NHL.

Career

Guerin was selected in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft as fifth in the first round by the New Jersey Devils , having previously played in the American Junior League New England Junior Hockey League at the Springfield Olympics for four years. He then moved for two seasons to Boston College , which played in the Hockey East of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

Guerin in the jersey of the New York Islanders

Initially used more often in the American Hockey League with the farm team of the New Jersey Devils, the Utica Devils from the American Hockey League, Guerin nevertheless completed his first eleven NHL games in the 1991/92 season , in which he scored three goals and one assist could. In the following season , the number of his missions in the NHL increased to 65 and Guerin developed from the 1993/94 season to a fixture in the roster of the Devils. In the shortened 1994/95 season he celebrated his greatest success in the NHL with the Stanley Cup victory of the Devils. Long since become a permanent staff in New Jersey, Bill Guerin moved during the 1997/98 season , together with Valeri Selepukin to the Edmonton Oilers . In return, Jason Arnott and Bryan Muir came to the east coast. The American stayed with the Oilers until the end of 2000. After about a quarter of the 2000/01 season , Guerin moved in exchange for Anson Carter and various draft picks to the Boston Bruins , where he ultimately played until the end of the 2001/02 season. At the beginning of the 2002/03 season he signed a new four-year contract with the Dallas Stars . After a disappointing 2005/06 season for him in Dallas, Guerin signed a contract in St. Louis on July 3, 2006 , where the right-handed shooter quickly found his way back to his old strength and as a result was nominated for the 2007 NHL All-Star Game . It was his fourth nomination for such a game after 2001 , 2003 and 2004 . On February 27, 2007 he was committed to a first-round draft pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , Ville Nieminen and Jay Barriball of the San Jose Sharks , who had scheduled him as reinforcement for the playoffs.

After the season he moved to the New York Islanders as a free agent , where he was immediately named team captain. However, the experienced American could not help the team to the hoped-for success. Both in the 2007/08 season and the following year, the Islanders had no chance in the allocation of playoff places. Then Guerin was given on March 4, 2009 for a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 to the Pittsburgh Penguins , who had previously put striker Miroslav Šatan on the waiver list in order to be able to lift the contract of their new signing. At the end of the season, the striker celebrated the second Stanley Cup win of his career.

In the summer of 2010, his contract with the Penguins was not renewed and Guerin became a free agent . At the beginning of December of the same year, he announced his retirement at the age of 40. In June 2011, Guerin was hired by the Penguins as a player development coach . In this role, he is responsible for the player development of the young players in Pittsburgh's farm teams . In the summer of 2014, he was promoted to assistant general manager of the Penguins. Three years later he was also entrusted with the business of general manager of Pittsburgh's cooperation partner Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL.

In August 2019, Guerin finally returned to the NHL as general manager when he succeeded Paul Fenton, who was sacked after just one season, at the Minnesota Wild .

International

With Team USA , Guerin won the silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . More Olympic participation was in 1998 in Nagano and 2006 in Turin . He also played at the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 , where he won the gold medal, and in 2004 .

During his time as a junior player, he played for the US team in the World Junior Championships in 1989 and 1990 .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Bill Guerin with his wife at an AHL Hall of Fame event (2015)
Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 Boston College Hockey East 39 14th 11 25th 64
1990/91 Boston College Hockey East 38 26th 19th 45 102
1991/92 Utica Devils AHL 22nd 13 10 23 6th 4th 1 3 4th 14th
1991/92 New Jersey Devils NHL 5 0 1 1 9 6th 3 0 3 4th
1992/93 Utica Devils AHL 18th 10 7th 17th 47 - - - - -
1992/93 New Jersey Devils NHL 65 14th 20th 34 63 5 1 1 2 4th
1993/94 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 25th 19th 44 101 17th 2 1 3 35
1994/95 New Jersey Devils NHL 48 12 13 25th 72 20th 3 8th 11 30th
1995/96 New Jersey Devils NHL 80 23 30th 53 116 - - - - -
1996/97 New Jersey Devils NHL 82 29 18th 47 95 8th 2 1 3 18th
1997/98 New Jersey Devils NHL 19th 5 5 10 13 - - - - -
1997/98 Edmonton Oilers NHL 40 13 16 29 80 12 7th 1 8th 17th
1998/99 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 30th 34 64 133 3 0 2 2 2
1999/00 Edmonton Oilers NHL 70 24 22nd 46 123 5 3 2 5 9
2000/01 Edmonton Oilers NHL 21st 12 10 22nd 18th - - - - -
2000/01 Boston Bruins NHL 64 28 35 63 122 - - - - -
2001/02 Boston Bruins NHL 78 41 25th 66 91 6th 4th 2 6th 6th
2002/03 Dallas Stars NHL 64 25th 25th 50 113 4th 0 0 0 4th
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 82 34 35 69 109 5 0 1 1 4th
2004/05 Dallas Stars NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Dallas Stars NHL 70 13 27 40 115 5 3 1 4th 0
2006/07 St. Louis Blues NHL 61 28 19th 47 52 - - - - -
2006/07 San Jose Sharks NHL 16 8th 1 9 14th 9 0 2 2 12
2007/08 New York Islanders NHL 81 23 21st 44 65 - - - - -
2008/09 New York Islanders NHL 61 16 20th 36 63 - - - - -
2008/09 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 17th 5 7th 12 18th 24 7th 8th 15th 15th
2009/10 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 21st 24 45 75 11 4th 5 9 2
NCAA overall 77 40 30th 70 166
AHL total 40 23 17th 40 53 4th 1 3 4th 14th
NHL overall 1263 429 427 856 1660 140 39 35 74 162

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1989 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 0 3 3 16
1990 United States June World Cup 7th place 7th 0 0 0 18th
1996 United States World cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 2 2 17th
1998 United States Olympia 6th place 4th 0 3 3 2
2002 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 4th 0 4th 4th
2004 United States World cup 4th Place 5 2 2 4th 8th
2006 United States Olympia 8th place 6th 1 0 1 0
Juniors overall 14th 0 3 3 34
Men overall 28 7th 7th 14th 31

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Bill Guerin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nytimes.com, Penguins Drop Guerin. Retrieved June 9, 2011 .
  2. ↑ penguins.nhl.com, Guerin Stays a Penguin Even After Retirement. Retrieved June 9, 2011 .
Squad of the Minnesota Wild in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Devan Dubnyk  | Alex Stalock  
Defender: Jonas Brodin  | Matt Dumba  | Brad Hunt  | Greg Pateryn  | Carson Soucy  | Jared Spurgeon  | Ryan Suter  ( A ) 
attacker: Ryan Donato  | Joel Eriksson Ek  | Kevin Fiala  | Marcus Foligno  | Alex Galchenyuk  | Jordan Greenway  | Ryan Hartman  | Mikko Koivu  ( C ) | Luke Kunin  | Zach Parise  ( A ) | Victor Rask  | Eric Staal  | Mats Zuccarello  
Head Coach:  Dean Evason    Assistant  Coach : Darby Hendrickson  | Bob Woods    General Manager:  Bill Guerin

personal data
SURNAME Guerin, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerin, William Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester , Massachusetts