Eric Messier
 Eric Messier 
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| Date of birth | October 29, 1973 |
| place of birth | Drummondville , Quebec , Canada |
| size | 183 cm |
| Weight | 91 kg |
| position | defender |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| 1991-1992 | Draveurs de Trois-Rivières |
| 1992-1994 | Faucons de Sherbrooke |
| 1994-1995 | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières |
| 1995-1996 | Cornwall Aces |
| 1996-2003 | Colorado Avalanche |
| 2003-2004 | Florida panthers |
Éric Messier (born October 29, 1973 in Drummondville , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 478 games for the Colorado Avalanche and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League in the course of his active career between 1991 and 2004 Has contested the position of the defender . Messier celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Colorado Avalanche, with which he spent most of his active career, winning the Stanley Cup in 2001 .
Career
Éric Messier began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , in which he was active from 1991 to 1994 for the Draveurs de Trois-Rivières and then after their relocation for the successor team, the Faucons de Sherbrooke . The 1994/95 season spent the defender in the team of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières .
He then received a contract with the Colorado Avalanche on June 14, 1995 as a free agent . During the 1995 summer break he played in 22 games for the Montreal Roadrunners from the professional Roller Hockey International . In the 1995/96 season he ran exclusively for Colorado's then farm team , the Cornwall Aces , in the American Hockey League . After he first time in the following season for the Avalanche in the National Hockey League was on the ice, had the links contactors in the following years always a place in the NHL team, which he held until 1999 in parallel for the new AHL farm team Hershey Bears used came. With these he won the Calder Cup in the 1996/97 season .
Messier achieved his greatest success in the 2000/01 season when he won the prestigious Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche . He scored seven goals in a total of 87 games and gave nine assists. On July 18, 2003, the Canadian was given together with Václav Nedorost in exchange for Peter Worrell and a second-round vote in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft to the Florida Panthers . For this he came in the 2003/04 season only on 21 missions, whereupon he ended his active career due to injury. In the 2008/09 season he worked as an assistant coach for the Cataractes de Shawinigan from the LHJMQ.
Achievements and Awards
- 1994 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team
- 1997 NHL Rookie of the Month for October
- 1997 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
- 2001 Stanley Cup win with the Colorado Avalanche
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 1991/92 | Draveurs de Trois-Rivières | LHJMQ | 58 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 15th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 13 | ||
| 1992/93 | Faucons de Sherbrooke | LHJMQ | 51 | 4th | 17th | 21st | 82 | 15th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 18th | ||
| 1993/94 | Faucons de Sherbrooke | LHJMQ | 67 | 4th | 24 | 28 | 69 | 12 | 1 | 7th | 8th | 14th | ||
| 1994/95 | University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières | CIS | 13 | 8th | 5 | 13 | 20th | 4th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8th | ||
| 1995/96 | Cornwall Aces | AHL | 72 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 111 | 8th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20th | ||
| 1996/97 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 55 | 16 | 26th | 42 | 69 | 9 | 3 | 8th | 11 | 14th | ||
| 1996/97 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 21st | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
| 1997/98 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 62 | 4th | 12 | 16 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 31 | 4th | 2 | 6th | 14th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1998/99 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 6th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 61 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 24 | 14th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||
| 2000/01 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 64 | 5 | 7th | 12 | 26th | 23 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 14th | ||
| 2001/02 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 74 | 5 | 10 | 15th | 26th | 21st | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2002/03 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 72 | 4th | 10 | 14th | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2003/04 | Florida panthers | NHL | 21st | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| LHJMQ total | 176 | 10 | 52 | 62 | 179 | 42 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 45 | ||||
| AHL total | 133 | 22nd | 38 | 60 | 184 | 17th | 4th | 9 | 13 | 34 | ||||
| NHL overall | 406 | 25th | 50 | 75 | 146 | 72 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 22nd | ||||
( 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
- Éric Messier at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Éric Messier at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Éric Messier at hockeydb.com (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Messier, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messier, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drummondville , Quebec , Canada |