Bob Brooke

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United StatesUnited States  Bob Brooke Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 18, 1960
place of birth Melrose , Massachusetts , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 4th lap, 75th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1979-1983 Yale University
1983-1984 USA hockey
1984-1986 New York Rangers
1986-1990 Minnesota North Stars
1990 New Jersey Devils

Robert William "Bob" Brooke (born December 18, 1960 in Melrose , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 481 games for the New York Rangers , Minnesota North Stars and New in the course of his active career between 1979 and 1990 Jersey Devils has played in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . With the national team of the United States Brooke took part in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, as well as two Canada Cups and two World Championships .

Career

Brooke was one of the first of many US players to make the leap into ice hockey through Acton Boxborough Regional High School in Acton , Massachusetts . From high school , the center forward first moved to Yale University , where, in addition to studying economics, he also played for the university's ice hockey team in ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In addition, he was also used as a shortstop for the baseball team, in which he played together with the future professional Ron Darling . Brooke spent a total of four years between 1979 and 1983 at the university and was able to achieve 40 scorer points in his last three seasons despite the triple load. In his senior year, the attacker was appointed to both the First All-Star Team of the ECAC and the First All-American Team of the NCAA East. He was also one of the ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Awards , the award for the best college player in the country.

Instead of switching to the National Hockey League after completing his studies , where he had already been selected in the fourth round in the fourth round of the St. Louis Blues in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft , Brooke was initially from the US in the summer of 1983 Hockey Association USA Hockey recruited and spent the season 1983/84 until the end of February 1984 in the national association. With the national team, he prepared for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia , in which he finally took part. In the wake of the Winter Olympics, his transfer rights were transferred to the New York Rangers in early March 1984 with Larry Patey . In return, St. Louis received Dave Barr , a third-round vote in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, and an undisclosed sum of money.

The Rangers then took Brooke immediately under contract, so that he made his debut in the NHL at the end of the 1983/84 season . For the following two and a half game years until November 1986, the striker was part of the Rangers' regular staff before he was again part of a transfer deal. With a four-round suffrage in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft , he moved to the Minnesota North Stars in exchange for Curt Giles , Tony McKegney and a second-round suffrage of the same draft . There the American found a new sporting home for the following three and a half seasons. In January 1990 there was another club change when he was given for Aaron Broten to the New Jersey Devils .

The offensive player only played 40 games for the Devils. In early September 1990 they transferred him to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for Laurie Boschman . The next day, however, Brooke declared his retirement from active sports at the age of 29, which compensated Winnipeg in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft with a five-round right to vote. Brooke, who had already worked on Wall Street during the summer breaks and in banking in the Greater Boston metropolitan area , earned a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University after retiring and then settled in the greater Boston area to make a living in banking to earn.

International

For his home country Brooke came to both junior and senior level. For the US U20 national team , he played as team captain at the 1980 World Junior Championship in the Finnish capital Helsinki . There he was used five tournament games, in which he collected as many points and the Americans took seventh place.

In the seniors, the striker was under contract with the US Ice Hockey Federation at the beginning of the 1983/84 season in order to prepare for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia . Ultimately, Brooke took part in the Olympic ice hockey tournament with the United States national team. He was also part of the squad for the 1984 Canada Cup . Brooke completed further assignments in the following years at the World Championships in 1985 in the Czechoslovak capital Prague and 1987 in the Austrian capital Vienna . His last international tournament was the Canada Cup in 1987 . In 36 appearances he recorded eight points scorer, he could not win a medal in any of the tournaments.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1983 ECAC First All-Star Team
  • 1983 NCAA East First All-American Team

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1979/80 Yale University ECAC 24 7th 22nd 29 38
1980/81 Yale University ECAC 27 12 30th 42 59
1981/82 Yale University ECAC 25th 12 30th 42 60
1982/83 Yale University ECAC 25th 10 30th 40 48
1983/84 USA hockey International 54 7th 18th 25th 75
1983/84 New York Rangers NHL 9 1 2 3 4th 5 0 0 0 7th
1984/85 New York Rangers NHL 72 7th 9 16 79 3 0 0 0 8th
1985/86 New York Rangers NHL 79 24 20th 44 111 16 6th 9 15th 28
1986/87 New York Rangers NHL 15th 3 5 8th 20th - - - - -
1986/87 Minnesota North Stars NHL 65 10 18th 28 78 - - - - -
1987/88 Minnesota North Stars NHL 77 5 20th 25th 108 - - - - -
1988/89 Minnesota North Stars NHL 57 7th 9 16 57 5 3 0 3 2
1988/89 Minnesota North Stars NHL 38 4th 4th 8th 33 - - - - -
1989/90 New Jersey Devils NHL 35 8th 10 18th 30th 5 0 0 0 14th
NCAA overall 101 41 112 153 205
NHL overall 447 69 97 166 520 34 9 9 18th 59

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1980 United States June World Cup 7th place 5 3 2 5 8th
1984 United States Olympia 7th place 6th 1 1 2 10
1984 United States Canada Cup 4th Place 5 0 1 1 4th
1985 United States WM 4th Place 10 0 1 1 14th
1987 United States WM 7th place 10 2 1 3 10
1987 United States Canada Cup 5th place 5 1 0 1 4th
Juniors overall 5 3 2 5 8th
Men overall 36 4th 4th 8th 42

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joe Pelletier: Minnesota North Stars Legends: Bob Brooke. greatesthockeylegends.com, January 2011, accessed December 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brooke, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brooke, Robert William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Melrose , Massachusetts