Bob Bassen

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CanadaCanada  Bob Bassen Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 6, 1965
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Center / left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1983-1985 Medicine Hat Tigers
1985-1988 New York Islanders
1988-1990 Chicago Blackhawks
Indianapolis Ice
1990-1994 St. Louis Blues
1994-1995 Nordiques de Québec
1995-1998 Dallas Stars
1998-1999 Calgary Flames
1999 Frankfurt Lions
1999-2000 St. Louis Blues

Robert Paul "Bob" Bassen (born May 6, 1965 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach . The center played over 800 games for six teams in the National Hockey League between 1985 and 2000 , most of them for the St. Louis Blues and New York Islanders . He also represented the Canadian national team at the 1992 World Cup and won the gold medal at the 1985 World Junior Championships .

Career

Bob Bassen played in his youth for the Calgary Spurs in the Alberta Junior Hockey League , before he left his hometown in 1983 and joined the Medicine Hat Tigers from the higher-ranking Western Hockey League (WHL). In Medicine Hat the attacker was active for two years and scored 82 scorer points in 65 games in the 1984/85 season , so that he was elected to the WHL East First All-Star Team . In any NHL Entry Drafts he was not considered, so that he signed a contract with the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 1984 as a free agent . After a season that he had mainly spent with the New York farm team , the Springfield Indians , in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Canadian established himself in the NHL squad of the Islanders and was henceforth primarily entrusted with defensive tasks and a physically stressed game .

After a little more than three years in New York, Bassen moved with Steve Konroyd to the Chicago Blackhawks in November 1988 , who in return gave up Marc Bergevin and Gary Nylund . In the Blackhawks, however, he subsequently lost his regular seat and spent large parts of the 1989/90 season with their farm team, the Indianapolis Ice from the International Hockey League (IHL). There the Canadian convinced with 54 points from 73 games and was consequently appointed to the IHL First All-Star Team . The attacker then came in October 1990 via the NHL Waiver Draft to the St. Louis Blues , where he scored the best NHL statistics of his career in the following 1990/91 season with 16 hits and 18 assists. After about three and a half years in St. Louis, the Blues sent him with Garth Butcher and Ron Sutter to the Nordiques de Québec in January 1994 and received Steve Duchesne and Denis Chassé in return .

The Nordiques did not extend his expiring contract after the 1994/95 season, so he joined the Dallas Stars as a free agent . Bassen spent three years there, the first of which he hardly played due to injury. In July 1998 the Stars transferred him to the Calgary Flames in exchange for Aaron Gavey , before he briefly played for the Frankfurt Lions in the German Ice Hockey League at the beginning of the 1999/00 season, together with his brother Mark . After only 14 missions, however, the attacker returned to North America in December 1999 to the St. Louis Blues, where he finally let his career end. In total, he had completed 858 NHL games and collected 256 scorer points and 1138 penalty minutes.

After the end of his active career, Bassen worked as an assistant coach for the Utah Grizzlies in the AHL from 2001 to 2004 , but did not pursue this career further. He has been in the management of the Dallas Stars since 2012, where he is responsible for alumni matters, among other things .

International

At the international level, Bassen took part in the 1985 World Junior Championship with the Canadian U20 team and won the gold medal there with the team. Seven years later he also made his debut for the senior national team of his home country when he finished eighth at the 1992 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1982/83 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 4th 3 2 5 0 3 0 0 0 4th
1983/84 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 72 29 29 58 93 14th 5 11 16 12
1984/85 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 65 32 50 82 143 10 2 8th 10 39
1985/86 Springfield Indians AHL 54 13 21st 34 111 - - - - - -
1985/86 New York Islanders NHL 11 2 1 3 ± 0 6th 3 0 1 1 -1 0
1986/87 New York Islanders NHL 77 7th 10 17th -17 89 14th 1 2 3 +2 21st
1987/88 New York Islanders NHL 77 6th 16 22nd +8 99 6th 0 1 1 +2 23
1988/89 New York Islanders NHL 19th 1 4th 5 ± 0 21st - - - - - -
1988/89 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 49 4th 12 16 +5 62 10 1 1 2 +1 34
1989/90 Indianapolis Ice IHL 73 22nd 32 54 179 12 3 8th 11 33
1989/90 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 6th 1 1 2 +1 8th 1 0 0 0 -1 2
1990/91 St. Louis Blues NHL 79 16 18th 34 +17 183 13 1 3 4th +1 24
1991/92 St. Louis Blues NHL 79 7th 25th 32 +12 167 6th 0 2 2 ± 0 4th
1992/93 St. Louis Blues NHL 53 9 10 19th ± 0 63 11 0 0 0 –7 10
1993/94 St. Louis Blues NHL 46 2 7th 9 -14 44 - - - - - -
1993/94 Nordiques de Québec NHL 37 11 8th 19th -3 55 - - - - - -
1994/95 Nordiques de Québec NHL 47 12 15th 27 +14 33 5 2 4th 6th +2 0
1995/96 Michigan K-Wings IHL 1 0 0 0 -3 4th - - - - - -
1995/96 Dallas Stars NHL 13 0 1 1 –6 15th - - - - - -
1996/97 Dallas Stars NHL 46 5 7th 12 +5 41 7th 3 1 4th +3 4th
1997/98 Dallas Stars NHL 58 3 4th 7th -4 57 17th 1 0 1 -3 12
1998/99 Calgary Flames NHL 41 1 2 3 -13 35 - - - - - -
1999/00 Frankfurt Lions DEL 14th 2 9 11 +4 6th - - - - - -
1999/00 St. Louis Blues NHL 27 1 3 4th -3 26th - - - - - -
WHL overall 141 64 81 145 236 27 7th 19th 26th 55
IHL total 74 22nd 32 54 183 12 3 8th 11 33
NHL overall 765 88 144 232 +2 1004 93 9 15th 24 -1 134

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1985 Canada June World Cup gold medal 7th 2 0 2 8th
1992 Canada WM 8th place 3 1 1 2 0
Juniors overall 7th 2 0 2 8th
Men overall 3 1 1 2 0

( 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 )

Personal

His father Hank Bassen played over 150 games as a goalkeeper in the NHL in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition, his brother Mark and his nephew Chad Bassen also made the leap into the professional field and were or are mainly active in Germany.

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personal data
SURNAME Bassen, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassen, Robert Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada