Bill Lindsay

Bill Lindsay
Date of birth	17th May 1971
place of birth	Fernie , British Columbia , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1991 , 5th lap, 103rd position Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1988-1989	Vernon Lakers
1989-1992	Tri-City Americans
1992-1993	Nordiques de Québec
1993-1999	Florida panthers
1999-2001	Calgary Flames
2001	San Jose Sharks
2001-2002	Florida panthers
2002	Canadiens de Montréal
2002-2003	Hamilton Bulldogs
2003-2004	Atlanta Thrashers
2004-2005	Long Beach Ice Dogs
2005-2007	Cologne Sharks

William Hamilton "Bill" Lindsay (born May 17, 1971 in Fernie , British Columbia ) is a former US American - Canadian ice hockey player who played 819 games for the Nordiques de Québec , Florida Panthers between 1988 and 2007 , Calgary Flames , Canadiens de Montréal and Atlanta Thrashers in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . In addition, Lindsay played for the Kölner Haie in the German Ice Hockey League for two years .

Career

Bill Lindsay began playing ice hockey in his native British Columbia when he was six . As a teenager, the left-handed shooter first played in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League for the Vernon Lakers , and later moved to the Western Hockey League for the Tri-City Americans .

With good statistics and his fighting spirit, Lindsay attracted the attention of clubs from the National Hockey League . In the 1991 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in 103rd place by the Nordiques de Québec . This committed him to the following season, half of which he spent with the farm team in Halifax . A year later he prevailed in the NHL as a regular player. Lindsay played another year in Quebec before he was switched to the Florida Panthers in 1993 . He played with the Miami- based Panthers for a total of six years . His personal best season was also the most successful in the history of the Panthers: In 1995/96 Florida reached the final of the Stanley Cup for the only time so far , but was defeated by the Colorado Avalanche in four games. Including the playoffs, Lindsay recorded 44 scorer points in 95 games.

Then he reached the playoffs again - the following year - with the Panthers, but failed in the conference quarter-finals. Even with the Calgary Flames , for which he was on the ice in a total of 132 games from 1999 to 2001, he did not reach the playoffs. Only with the San Jose Sharks , to whom he had been transferred during his second season in Calgary, did the attacker make it to the finals again. After that season he returned to the Florida Panthers, but shortly after moved on to the Canadiens de Montréal . In the 2002/03 season he came to sporadic assignments in the NHL team and spent most of the year in the farm team of the Canadiens, the Hamilton Bulldogs , in the American Hockey League . With the Bulldogs he reached the final of the playoffs.

After joining the Atlanta Thrashers in 2003, he commuted between the NHL team and the AHL for a year. The lockout - 2004/05 season he spent in the ECHL with the Long Beach Ice Dogs before the winger to the 2005/06 season the Columbus Blue Jackets joined. There he was only used in the farm team in Syracuse . When the Kölner Haie successfully asked his club for Lindsay's release in autumn 2005, the NHL veteran moved to Europe for the first time in his career. After good performances in the first games, Lindsay extended his contract, which initially ran until the end of the season, until 2007. When it ran out, he ended his active career.

Since 2009, Bill Lindsay has been working for the US sports broadcaster Fox Sports on games of the Florida Panthers as an expert and co-commentator alongside Steve Goldstein.

International

Lindsay participated with the US selection at the Junior World Championship in 1991 and the World Championship in 1994 . At the Junior World Cup in 1991, which Lindsay finished with the USA in fourth place, he scored three goals and five assists in seven matches. Three years later, the winger finished fourth again at the 1994 World Cup with the United States and contributed to this placement with three hits and one assist .

Achievements and Awards

• 1992 WHL West Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1988/89	Vernon Lakers	BCJHL		56	24	29	53	166		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Tri-City Americans	WHL		72	40	45	85	84		7th	3	0	3	17th
1990/91	Tri-City Americans	WHL		63	46	47	93	151		5	3	6th	9	10
1991/92	Tri-City Americans	WHL		42	34	59	93	111		3	2	3	5	16
1991/92	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		23	2	4th	6th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Halifax Citadels	AHL		20th	11	13	24	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		44	4th	9	13	16		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Florida panthers	NHL		84	6th	6th	12	97		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Florida panthers	NHL		48	10	9	19th	46		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Florida panthers	NHL		73	12	22nd	34	57		22nd	5	5	10	18th
1996/97	Florida panthers	NHL		81	11	23	34	120		3	0	1	1	8th
1997/98	Florida panthers	NHL		82	12	16	28	80		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Florida panthers	NHL		75	12	15th	27	92		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Calgary Flames	NHL		80	8th	12	20th	86		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Calgary Flames	NHL		52	1	9	10	97		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	San Jose Sharks	NHL		16	0	4th	4th	29		6th	0	0	0	16
2001/02	Florida panthers	NHL		63	4th	7th	11	117		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		13	1	3	4th	23		11	2	2	4th	2
2002/03	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		28	6th	12	18th	89		23	10	3	13	31
2002/03	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		19th	0	2	2	23		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Chicago Wolves	AHL		13	3	5	8th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		24	0	0	0	25th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Long Beach Ice Dogs	ECHL		32	9	14th	23	78		7th	2	2	4th	12
2005/06	Syracuse crunch	AHL		4th	0	2	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Cologne Sharks	DEL		32	9	12	21st	78		9	4th	4th	8th	44
2006/07	Cologne Sharks	DEL		45	7th	16	23	79		9	1	2	3	26th
WHL overall				177	120	151	271	346		15th	8th	9	17th	43
AHL total				65	20th	32	52	115		23	10	3	13	31
NHL overall				777	83	141	224	922		42	7th	8th	15th	44
DEL total				77	16	28	44	157		18th	5	6th	11	70

International

Represented USA at:

• Junior World Championship 1991
• World Championship 1994

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1991	United States	June World Cup	4th Place		7th	3	5	8th	8th
1994	United States	WM	4th Place		5	3	1	4th	2
Juniors overall					7th	3	5	8th	8th
Men overall					5	3	1	4th	2

( 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

• Bill Lindsay at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Bill Lindsay at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Bill Lindsay at hockeydb.com (English)