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
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International
- 1988 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
- 1996 Second place at the World Cup of Hockey
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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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:
- Junior World Championship 1988
- World Championship 1993
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- World Championship 1999
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1988 | Canada | June World Cup | 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 )
Web links
- Adam Graves at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Adam Graves at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Adam Graves at hockeydb.com (English)
personal data | |
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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 |