Adam Graves

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Adam Graves
Date of birth April 12, 1968
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1986 , 2nd lap, 22nd position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1985-1988 Windsor Spitfires
1988-1989 Detroit Red Wings
1989-1991 Edmonton Oilers
1991-2001 New York Rangers
2001-2003 San Jose Sharks

Adam Scott Graves (born April 12, 1968 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 1277 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Edmonton Oilers , New York Rangers and San Jose Sharks during his playing career between 1985 and 2003 in the National Hockey League on the position of the left winger . Graves, who received numerous individual awards during his time in the NHL, won the Stanley Cup in 1990 with the Edmonton Oilers and in 1994 with the New York Rangers .

Career

As a junior he played for the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League . In the 1986 NHL Entry Draft , the Detroit Red Wings picked up the power-forward in the second round as 22. During his senior year in Windsor, he also played for Canada at the Junior World Championships. At the end of this year, the Red Wings brought him to the NHL for nine games.

In the 1988/89 season, Graves played mostly in Detroit, but still had a hard time with the level of the NHL and was therefore repeatedly used in the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings . After 13 games in the 1989/90 season he was together u. a. with Joe Murphy for some players around Jimmy Carson to the Edmonton Oilers . There, too, he struggled and only got 21 points in 63 games. Together with Murphy and Martin Gélinas he played there in the Oilers "Kid Line" which could set accents in the playoffs and helped to bring the Stanley Cup back to Edmonton after Wayne Gretzky's departure .

It wasn't until he moved to the New York Rangers in the 1991/92 season that he actually made his breakthrough. Here he was allowed to play in a role similar to that of his junior team. After two years with over 25 goals, he set a team record with 52 goals in the 1993/94 season , which was only exceeded by Jaromír Jágr in 2006 . This season, like in Edmonton with captain Mark Messier , he won his second Stanley Cup. He was also voted into the NHL All-Star Game that season. He surpassed the 20 goal mark five times in his time with the Rangers until 2001.

From the 2001/02 season he was still active for two seasons for the San Jose Sharks . After a year without a team, he officially announced his resignation in April 2004.

On February 3, 2009, he was honored in a moving ceremony ahead of the New York Rangers' home game against the Atlanta Thrashers . His number 9 jersey was hung under the roof of Madison Square Garden . The number 9 will no longer be awarded by the New York Rangers in the future.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 King City Dukes ON-Jr.B 25th 23 33 56 29 - - - - -
1985/86 Windsor Spitfires OHL 62 27 37 64 35 16 5 11 16 10
1986/87 Windsor Spitfires OHL 66 45 55 100 70 14th 9 8th 17th 32
1986/87 Adirondack Red Wings AHL - - - - - 5 0 1 1 0
1987/88 Windsor Spitfires OHL 37 28 32 60 107 12 14th 18th 32 16
1988 Windsor Spitfires Memorial Cup 4th 2 3 5 8th
1987/88 Detroit Red Wings NHL 9 0 1 1 8th - - - - -
1988/89 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 14th 10 11 21st 28 14th 11 7th 18th 17th
1988/89 Detroit Red Wings NHL 56 7th 5 12 60 5 0 0 0 4th
1989/90 Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 0 1 1 13 - - - - -
1989/90 Edmonton Oilers NHL 63 9 12 21st 123 22nd 5 6th 11 17th
1990/91 Edmonton Oilers NHL 76 7th 18th 25th 127 18th 2 4th 6th 22nd
1991/92 New York Rangers NHL 80 26th 33 59 139 10 5 3 8th 22nd
1992/93 New York Rangers NHL 84 36 29 65 148 - - - - -
1993/94 New York Rangers NHL 84 52 27 79 127 23 10 7th 17th 24
1994/95 New York Rangers NHL 47 17th 14th 31 51 10 4th 4th 8th 8th
1995/96 New York Rangers NHL 82 22nd 36 58 100 10 7th 1 8th 4th
1996/97 New York Rangers NHL 82 33 28 61 66 15th 2 1 3 12
1997/98 New York Rangers NHL 72 23 12 35 41 - - - - -
1998/99 New York Rangers NHL 82 38 15th 53 47 - - - - -
1999/00 New York Rangers NHL 77 23 17th 40 14th - - - - -
2000/01 New York Rangers NHL 82 10 16 26th 77 - - - - -
2001/02 San Jose Sharks NHL 81 17th 14th 31 51 12 3 1 4th 6th
2002/03 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 9 9 18th 32 - - - - -
OHL total 165 100 124 224 212 42 28 37 65 58
AHL total 14th 10 11 21st 28 19th 11 8th 19th 17th
NHL overall 1152 329 287 616 1224 125 38 27 65 119

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1988 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 5 0 5 4th
1993 Canada WM 6th place 8th 3 3 6th 8th
1996 Canada World cup 2nd place 7th 0 1 1 2
1999 Canada WM 4th Place 10 5 2 7th 8th
Juniors overall 7th 5 0 5 4th
Men overall 32 13 6th 19th 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Graves, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graves, Adam Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario