Barry Pederson

Barry Pederson
Date of birth	March 13, 1961
place of birth	Big River , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1980 , 1st lap, 18th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
1976-1988	Nanaimo Clippers
1978-1981	Victoria Cougars
1981-1986	Boston Bruins
1986-1989	Vancouver Canucks
1989-1991	Pittsburgh Penguins
1991	Hartford Whalers
1991-1992	Boston Bruins

Barry Alan Pederson (born March 13, 1961 in Big River , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins , Vancouver Canucks , Pittsburgh Penguins and Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League from 1980 to 1992 .

Career

As a junior, he was one of the few Americans to play with Grant Fuhr for the Victoria Cougars in the Western Hockey League . With the team he played in the final tournament for the Memorial Cup in 1981 . In the 1980 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the first round as 18th by the Boston Bruins .

After a call to the NHL following the Memorial Cup, he was from the 1981/82 season in the squad of the Bruins and played with top scorer Rick Middleton in a row. This season he finished second behind Dale Hawerchuk in the election for the Calder Memorial Trophy . From the following season he replaced Middleton at the top of the scorer list and made it twice among the top ten scorers in the NHL.

A tumor was discovered in his shoulder in 1984 and so he missed a large part of the 1984/85 season . After returning to a decent performance after his recovery, he wanted a raise, but the general manager of the Bruins, Harry Sinden , decided to hand him over to the Vancouver Canucks . Since you could get two props of the future Bruins in return with Cam Neely and Glen Wesley , who you could get with a first-round draft right from the exchange, Sinden was right with the decision.

In Vancouver, too, he was among the team's best scorers for two seasons, but in the third year his performance dropped and he only got 41 points. Together with Rod Buskas and Tony Tanti , it was passed on to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Dave Capuano , Andrew McBain and Dan Quinn . Here he only played a minor role in a team led by Mario Lemieux . Even though he only made 46 regular season appearances in the 1990/91 season and did not take part in a playoff game, his name as a member of the squad that won the Stanley Cup was also engraved on the base of the cup.

The following season was his last. He started them with the Hartford Whalers , but after five games he returned to the Boston Bruins. After 14 games in the American Hockey League with the Maine Mariners , he hung up his skates.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	12	701	238	416	654	472
Playoffs	4th	34	22nd	30th	52	25th

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup : 1991

Personal awards

• BCJHL Second All-Star Team: 1978
• WHL First All-Star Team: 1981
• WHL Second All-Star Team: 1980
• Participation in the NHL All-Star Game : 1983 and 1984

Web links

• Barry Pederson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Barry Pederson at legendsofhockey.net (English)