Adam Creighton

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CanadaCanada  Adam Creighton Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 2, 1965
place of birth Burlington , Ontario , Canada
size 196 cm
Weight 100 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1983 , 1st round, 11th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1981-1985 Ottawa 67's
1983-1988 Buffalo Sabers
1988-1991 Chicago Blackhawks
1991-1992 New York Islanders
1992-1994 Tampa Bay Lightning
1994-1996 St. Louis Blues
1996-1997 Chicago Blackhawks
Indianapolis Ice
1997-1999 Augsburg panther

Adam Creighton (born June 2, 1965 in Burlington , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current scout . Between 1983 and 1996 the center played over 700 games for the Buffalo Sabers , Chicago Blackhawks , New York Islanders , Tampa Bay Lightning and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League . He let his active career end with the Augsburg Panthers in the German Ice Hockey League . He was then employed by the Boston Bruins and has been a scout for the team ever since.

Career

Beginnings

Adam Creighton played in his youth from 1981 for the Ottawa 67’s , who had selected him in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 13th position. In the 1982/83 season he scored 90 scorer points in 68 games for the team from the Canadian capital , so that he was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 1983 in eleventh position by the Buffalo Sabers . For the Sabers, the attacker made his debut in December of the same year in the National Hockey League (NHL), but spent most of the season at the 67's, with whom he subsequently both the OHL playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the won the following Memorial Cup . In the latter, he led the scorer list together with his teammate Bruce Cassidy (12) and was consequently awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as MVP as well as being appointed to the tournament's All-Star Team .

In the 1984/85 season, the Canadian ran alongside the Sabers and the 67's for Buffalo's farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL). The season 1985/86 he spent mostly in Rochester before he finally established himself in the NHL squad of the Sabers.

NHL and end of career

In his first full NHL season, Creighton scored 40 scorer points for the Sabers, a performance he was unable to confirm in the episode. Finally, after more than five years in the organization, he was given to the Chicago Blackhawks in December 1988 in exchange for Rick Vaive . In Chicago he spent his most successful NHL time in the next three years, so he reached the conference finals in the playoffs with the team in 1989 and 1990 , but there was defeated by the later Stanley Cup winner ( Calgary and Edmonton ) . At the same time, he was in the 1989/90 season with 34 goals after Steve Thomas the second best scorer of the Blackhawks, while the 70 points scored at the same time should represent his career best.

The Blackhawks sent Creighton and Steve Thomas to the Islanders in October 1991 and received Brad Lauer and Brent Sutter in return . With the Islanders, the center ended only the current season before coming to the Tampa Bay Lightning in October 1992 via the NHL Waiver Draft . With the Lightning, which went into their first NHL season as a newly founded franchise , he spent two equally sporty unspectacular years as then with the St. Louis Blues , which signed him in October 1994 in exchange for Tom Tilley . As a free agent , he subsequently returned to the Chicago Blackhawks, who did not use him regularly in the NHL, but also on their farm team, the Indianapolis Ice from the International Hockey League .

Finally, Creighton left North America after the 1996/97 season and joined the Augsburg Panthers from the German Ice Hockey League , where he let his career end in the next two years with irregular periods of use. He ended his active career in 1999 and had played a total of 796 NHL games and collected 428 points scorer. He was then hired by the Boston Bruins as a scout and has been with the team since then.

International

At the international level, Creighton represented his home country with the U20 national team at the 1985 World Junior Championships and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1981/82 Ottawa 67's OHL 60 15th 27 42 73 17th 7th 1 8th 40
1982/83 Ottawa 67's OHL 68 44 46 90 88 9 0 2 2 12
1983/84 Ottawa 67's OHL 56 42 49 91 79 13 16 11 27 28
1984 Ottawa 67's Memorial Cup - - - - - - 5 5 7th 12 15th
1983/84 Buffalo Sabers NHL 7th 2 2 4th ± 0 4th - - - - - -
1984/85 Ottawa 67's OHL 10 4th 14th 18th 23 5 6th 2 8th 11
1984/85 Rochester Americans AHL 6th 5 3 8th 2 5 2 1 3 20th
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 30th 2 8th 10 –7 33 - - - - - -
1985/86 Rochester Americans AHL 32 17th 21st 38 27 - - - - - -
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 19th 1 1 2 -2 2 - - - - - -
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 56 18th 22nd 40 +5 26th - - - - - -
1987/88 Buffalo Sabers NHL 36 10 17th 27 +7 87 - - - - - -
1988/89 Buffalo Sabers NHL 24 7th 10 17th -5 44 - - - - - -
1988/89 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 43 15th 14th 29 -4 92 15th 5 6th 11 -1 44
1989/90 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 80 34 36 70 +4 224 20th 3 6th 9 +1 59
1990/91 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 72 22nd 29 51 ± 0 135 6th 0 1 1 ± 0 10
1991/92 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 11 6th 6th 12 -1 16 - - - - - -
1991/92 New York Islanders NHL 66 15th 9 24 -4 102 - - - - - -
1992/93 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 83 19th 20th 39 -19 110 - - - - - -
1993/94 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 53 10 10 20th –7 37 - - - - - -
1994/95 St. Louis Blues NHL 48 14th 20th 34 +17 74 7th 2 0 2 -1 16
1995/96 St. Louis Blues NHL 61 11 10 21st ± 0 78 13 1 1 2 -4 8th
1996/97 Indianapolis Ice IHL 6th 1 7th 8th +8 11 - - - - - -
1996/97 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 19th 1 2 3 -2 13 - - - - - -
1997/98 Augsburg panther DEL 16 8th 6th 14th 41 6th 2 3 5 4th
1998/99 Augsburg panther DEL 9 0 2 2 –7 30th - - - - - -
OHL total 194 105 136 241 263 44 29 16 45 91
DEL total 25th 8th 8th 16 71 6th 2 3 5 4th
AHL total 38 22nd 24 46 29 5 2 1 3 20th
NHL overall 708 187 216 403 -18 1077 61 11 14th 25th -5 137

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1985 Canada U20 World Cup gold medal 7th 8th 4th 12 4th
Juniors overall 7th 8th 4th 12 4th

( 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 )

Personal

His father Dave Creighton was also active in the NHL and played in over 600 games for four teams of the Original Six .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Wharnsby: Catching up with ... Adam Creighton. theglobeandmail.com, January 20, 2007, accessed March 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Creighton, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Burlington , Ontario , Canada