Adrien Plavsic

Adrien Plavsic
Date of birth	January 13, 1970
place of birth	Montréal , Québec , Canada
Nickname	Sasha
size	186 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1988 , 2nd round, 30th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1987-1988	University of New Hampshire
1988-1989	Hockey Canada
1989-1990	Peoria Rivermen
1990-1995	Vancouver Canucks
1995-1996	Atlanta Knights
1996-1997	Long Beach Ice Dogs
1997-1998	Territory lions Oberhausen
1998-2002	ZSC Lions
2003-2008	EHC Basel
2010–2012	EHC Basel
since 2012	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds

Adrien Plavsic (born January 13, 1970 in Montréal , Québec ) is a Canadian - Swiss ice hockey player and coach who has been under contract with HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the National League B since 2012 .

Career

Adrien Plavsic began his career as a hockey player at the University of New Hampshire , where he studied from 1987 to 1988, while he was also active for their ice hockey team in the Hockey East . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the second round as a total of 30th player from the St. Louis Blues . After spending the 1988/89 season with Team Canada with international friendly matches, the defender made his debut for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League in the 1989/90 season . For St. Louis, however, he came to only four missions in the NHL, while he spent most of the season with their farm team Peoria Rivermen in the International Hockey League . In March 1990 he was released from St. Louis within the NHL to the Vancouver Canucks , for which he ran up until the end of the season as well as for their IHL farm team Milwaukee Admirals . From 1990 to 1995 the Canadian was a regular at the Vancouver Canucks, for whose new farm team Hamilton Canucks from the American Hockey League he also played two games. At the end of the 1994/95 season shortened due to a lockout , he was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning , where he scored two goals and one assist in 15 NHL games by the end of the season. In the following season , however, he completed only seven more games for Tampa Bay in the NHL, while he spent the rest of the time with their IHL farm team Atlanta Knights . Something similar happened to him in the 1996/97 season , when he was only used six times for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and spent the entire remaining season with the Long Beach Ice Dogs in the IHL.

For the 1997/98 season Plavsic went to Europe, where he first played for the Revierlöwen Oberhausen in the German Ice Hockey League . From 1998 to 2002 he ran for the ZSC Lions in the Swiss National League A in. With them he won the Swiss championship title in the 1999/2000 season . He scored the decisive goal to make it 4: 3 in the sixth final game against HC Lugano ten seconds before the end of regular time and thus enabled the ZSC to win their first championship title in 39 years. In 2000/01 he managed to defend his title with the ZSC Lions. After a one-year break from ice hockey, the 1992 Olympian ran for EHC Basel in the 2003/04 season , with whom he had to accept relegation to the second-class National League B at the end of the season . In the 2005/06 season he played for Basel and Lausanne HC in the NLB, before he was again active with Basel in the NLA from 2005 to 2008. After relegation with his team in the 2007/08 season , he had to sit out professional ice hockey for two years due to a serious knee injury before playing again for Basel in the NLB from 2010 to 2012. Before the 2009/10 season he was promoted to the EHC Basel team as an assistant coach. After his return to the ice, he worked in the same position at the EHC. For the 2012/13 season he joined the NLB participant HC La Chaux-de-Fonds .

International

For Canada , Plavsic took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 1990 , where he won the gold medal with his team. He was also in his country's squad at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where he won the silver medal with Canada.

Achievements and Awards

• 2000 Swiss champions with the ZSC Lions
• 2000 NLA Defender of the Year
• 2001 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions

International

• 1990 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1992 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	8th	214	16	56	72	161
NHL playoffs	1	13	1	7th	8th	4th
DEL main round	1	37	4th	16	20th	30th
DEL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
NLA main round	9	270	44	99	143	325
NLA playoffs	3	33	7th	11	18th	34

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bazonline.ch, Adrien Plavsic complements the coaching staff of the EHC Basel

Web links

• Adrien Plavsic at hockeydb.com (English)
• Adrien Plavsic at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Adrien Plavsic at eurohockey.com
• Adrien Plavsic at eliteprospects.com (English)