Eric Dazé

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CanadaCanada  Eric Dazé Ice hockey player
Date of birth 2nd July 1975
place of birth Montréal , Québec , Canada
size 198 cm
Weight 107 kg
position wing
number # 55
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 4th round, 90th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1990-1992 Laval Regents
1992-1993 Olympiques de Hull
1993-1995 Harfangs de Beauport
1995-2005 Chicago Blackhawks

Éric Dazé (born July 2, 1975 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played a total of 638 games for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League between 1995 and 2005 .

Career

Dazé played during his junior years initially from 1990 to 1992 with the Laval Regents in the lower junior classes of the province of Québec , where he attracted attention early on with 45 points in 30 games and 77 points in 47 games. In the summer of 1992, the striker finally moved to the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , where the Olympiques de Hull signed him. In his rookie season he immediately belonged to the regular staff of the team, but after 55 games of the season in which he scored 32 points , he was transferred to league rivals Harfangs de Beauport . Beauport sent defense attorney Jamie Bird to Hull for this . In the Harfangs Dazé was able to increase significantly in the remaining 13 games of the season, as he reached another 23 points.

In June 1993, the winger was finally selected in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft . Despite his prolific point yields that put Scouts of the NHL - Franchises little confidence in those equipped with a height of 198 centimeters and 107 kilogram of body weight attacker because Dazé - although its good physical conditions - the physical play of power forward shied vehemently. The Chicago Blackhawks only selected him in the fourth round in 90th place. Although the selection was in the draft, Dazé remained in the LHJMQ at Beauport for two more years. Compared to his first season, he increased significantly and came in the 1993/94 season to 107 points in 66 games. He was the team's top scorer of the Harfangs and with 59 goals behind Yanick Dubé, the second top scorer in the league. His achievements were therefore rewarded with the election to the First All-Star Team of the LHJMQ and the Third All-Star Team of the Canadian Hockey League . In the following season he repeated the successes of the previous year. The striker was re-elected to both All-Star teams, was by far the top scorer of the Harfangs and second-best goalscorer in the entire league behind Alain Savage , although he missed part of the season because of the Junior World Cup in December 1994 and January 1995. In total, he got 99 points and 54 goals in 57 games. In addition, there were another 21 points in 16 games in the play-offs when Beauport failed in the semifinals for the Coupe du Président to Hull. Finally, he was awarded the Paul Dumont Trophy for LHJMQ Personality of the Year and the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the fairest athletic player of the LHJMQ season. The award of the Frank J. Selke Trophy enabled him to take part in the election for CHL Sportsman of the Year , in which he prevailed against the Russians Vitaly Jatschmenjow and Darren Ritchie . In addition, at the end of the year he received the Viscount Alexander Award for the best male junior athlete in the province of Québec, which had previously only received two other ice hockey players, Eric Lindros and Alexandre Daigle .

After the end of the LHJMQ season, the 19-year-old immediately switched to the professional camp and at the end of the 1994/95 season he made his first appearances in the National Hockey League. By the end of the regular season , he was in four games for the Blackhawks on the ice, in which he scored both his first goal in the third mission and prepared another. In the play-offs for the Stanley Cup , the winger played 16 games in the first three rounds of the knockout competition before Chicago was eliminated by the Detroit Red Wings . In the Windy City , the Canadian quickly became a fixture in the squad. In the first four years he only missed 23 of a possible 328 games in the regular season. In his first season as a newcomer to the league, Dazé set personal records with 30 goals, 23 assists and 53 points in 80 games, which enabled him to be appointed to the NHL All-Rookie Team for the 1995/96 season . In January 1996 he was named NHL Rookie of the Month . In the election for the Calder Memorial Trophy Dazé was defeated by the Swede Daniel Alfredsson , who had scored eight points more than he had and led this statistic among the league beginners. In the other three seasons up to the spring of 1999, the attacker always recorded more than 40 scorer points, in a team that missed the play-offs twice and was eliminated once in the first round.

In the 1999/2000 season Dazé played only 59 games due to injury and achieved only 36 points scorer, the worst value since joining the NHL. Only in the 2000/01 game year did the attacker return to his old form and improve his season high to 57 points, making him fourth-best scorer for the Blackhawks. He was able to improve again in the following season, before Chicago had extended his contract prematurely until the summer of 2004. He completed all the games for the first time in his NHL career and again set a new record with 70 points, which made him the team's top scorer and goalscorer at the same time. He was also nominated for the NHL All-Star Game in February 2002 in Los Angeles , where his two goals and one assist made him the most valuable player of the game.

From the 2002/03 season , the striker began to suffer for a long time. Even before the start of the season, Dazé underwent an operation on his back after a herniated disc , which made him late for the season. This was followed in the course of the season always less downtime due to back problems and when they recovered from rails, made the bar and infection at the ankle problems. He played only 54 games, in which he was able to show the point productivity of the previous year with 44 points. At the beginning of the 2003/04 season , Dazé made his back problems again due to another herniated disc. After 19 missions and eleven scorer points, he ended the season early in December because of another back operation, which was followed by a third in February 2004. Since the 2004/05 NHL season was completely canceled due to the lockout , Dazé used the time intensively to cure his back. The Blackhawks held on to their attacker despite ongoing injury concerns and had already tied him long-term in July 2004. In September 2005, the striker returned to Chicago and was part of the team's squad in the first game of the season 2005/06 on October 7, 2005. After the first third, however, the 30-year-old did not return to the ice and did not play another game during the season.

After a total of three operations within five years, Dazé declared - despite several attempts to make a comeback - on December 31, 2006 that he was currently no longer able to play games due to his back problems. But since he delayed his official resignation from active sport until March 20, 2010, he was officially considered an unrestricted free agent after the expiration of the contract in Chicago .

International

Dazé represented his home country Canada for the first time at the World Youth Championship in 1995 in the Canadian Red Deer in the province of Alberta . The Canadians - led by the quartet Marty Murray , Jason Allison , Bryan McCabe and Éric Dazé - won all seven games of the tournament and confidently secured the gold medal. Together with Murray and Allison, Dazé formed the tournament's best storm series, scoring 17 of the 49 Canadian goals. Dazé alone booked eight of them and thus shared the title of top scorer with the Russian Alexander Koroljuk . With two more assists and thus ten points, he finished fifth in the scorer ranking, but was only the fourth-best scorer of the Canadians. He was also elected to the tournament's all-star team.

Previously, Dazé had already represented the selection of the Province of Québec at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 1992 , where he had led the team to the silver medal after a final defeat against the Province of Ontario .

For the senior selection of the maple leaves , the striker played at the 1998 World Cup in Switzerland and the 1999 World Cup in Norway . In the 1998 world championships, after a successful preliminary round, the Canadians were eliminated in the intermediate round against the two later finalists from Finland and Sweden . Nevertheless, Dazé reached five scorer points in three missions, making him behind Ray Whitney , who played three games more, the second best Canadian player on points. The following year, when Canada was fourth after losing to the Czech Republic in the semifinals and Sweden in the game for third place, Dazé came to two missions. He was preparing a hit.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 Laval Regents QAHA 30th 25th 20th 45 30th - - - - -
1991/92 Laval Regents QAAA 35 30th 29 59 40 12 8th 10 18th 8th
1992/93 Olympiques de Hull LHJMQ 55 13 19th 32 14th - - - - -
1992/93 Harfangs de Beauport LHJMQ 13 6th 17th 23 10 - - - - -
1993/94 Harfangs de Beauport LHJMQ 66 59 48 107 31 - - - - -
1994/95 Harfangs de Beauport LHJMQ 57 54 45 99 20th 16 9 12 21st 23
1994/95 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 4th 1 1 2 2 16 0 1 1 4th
1995/96 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 80 30th 23 53 18th 10 3 5 8th 3
1996/97 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 71 22nd 19th 41 16 6th 2 1 2 1
1997/98 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 80 31 11 42 22nd - - - - -
1998/99 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 72 22nd 20th 42 22nd - - - - -
1999/00 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 59 23 13 36 28 - - - - -
2000/01 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 79 33 24 57 16 - - - - -
2001/02 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 38 32 70 36 5 0 0 0 2
2002/03 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 54 22nd 22nd 44 14th - - - - -
2003/04 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 19th 4th 7th 11 0 - - - - -
2004/05 Chicago Blackhawks NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 191 132 129 261 75 31 25th 20th 45 4th
NHL overall 601 226 172 398 176 37 5 7th 12 8th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1992 Canada Québec U17-WHC 2nd place, silver
1995 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 8th 2 10 0
1998 Canada WM 6th place 3 1 4th 5 0
1999 Canada WM 4th Place 2 0 1 1 0
Juniors overall 7th 8th 2 10 0
Men overall 5 1 5 6th 0

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gatineau Olympiques - History. Olympiques de Gatineau , accessed January 19, 2012 .
  2. ^ Viscount Alexander Award - Outstanding Junior Male Athlete. slam.ca, accessed on January 19, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Michael DiFranco: What Happened to Eric Daze? thehockeywriters.com, March 13, 2009, accessed January 19, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Dazé, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dazé, Eric; Daze, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec