Brent Peterson (ice hockey player, 1958)

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CanadaCanada  Brent Peterson Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 15, 1958
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 182 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 1st lap, 12th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1974-1976 Edmonton Oil Kings
1976-1988 Portland Winter Hawks
1978-1981 Detroit Red Wings
1981-1985 Buffalo Sabers
1985-1987 Vancouver Canucks
1987-1989 Hartford Whalers
CanadaCanada  Brent Peterson
Coaching stations
1989-1991 Hartford Whalers (Assistant Coach)
1991-1998 Portland Winter Hawks
1998-2011 Nashville Predators (assistant coach)

Brent Ronald Peterson (born February 15, 1958 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 651 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Buffalo Sabers , Vancouver Canucks and Hartford during his active career between 1974 and 1989 Whalers in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of right winger . Peterson then worked as a coach for over 20 years, most of it as an assistant coach for the Nashville Predators in the NHL. However, he celebrated his greatest successes as the head coach of the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL), which he led to winning the Memorial Cup in 1998 .

Career

Peterson spent his junior years in the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) between 1974 and 1978 . The winger was initially part of the Edmonton Oil Kings roster for two seasons before the franchise moved from Edmonton, Canada across the border to the US state of Oregon in the summer of 1976 and settled in Portland . There it continued the game operation under the name Portland Winter Hawks . Peterson completed a total of 274 games for the Edmonton / Portland franchise over a period of four years, collecting 318 scorer points . In the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft , he was finally selected in the first round in twelfth place by the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Peterson was next to Wayne Babych and Larry Playfair one of three first-round elections from Portland that year.

Right at the beginning of the 1978/79 season , the 20-year-old made the jump into the NHL roster of the Detroit Red Wings. However, he broke his right leg in the fifth game of the season in mid-October 1978, so he was out the rest of the season due to injury. The attacker did not return to the ice until the following game year, but first had to recommend himself for the NHL squad via Detroit's farm team , the Adirondack Red Wings , from the American Hockey League (AHL). So he spent most of the season in the AHL. The permanent return to the NHL he succeeded only in the 1980/81 season , in which he also had longer downtimes due to fractures of the right cheekbone and left ankle. Shortly after the beginning of the game year 1981/82 in December 1981, Peterson was part of a six-player transfer business in which he joined the Buffalo Sabers with Mike Foligno and Dale McCourt . In compensation, the Red Wings received Danny Gare , Jim Schoenfeld and Derek Smith .

In the service of the Buffalo Sabers, Peterson spent his most profitable years in the NHL after initial problems. At the side of Craig Ramsay , he managed to finally establish himself in the league and successfully use his defensive skills. In the seasons 1982/83 and 1984/85 he also reached over 30 points scorer. In October 1985, the Canadian's time in Buffalo ended, however, as he was selected in the NHL Waiver Draft shortly before the start of the season by the Vancouver Canucks . For the West Coast franchise, the offensive player went on the hunt for goals over the next two years. In the 1985/86 season he again managed to achieve more than 30 goal participations. In the fall of 1987, Peterson ended up - again via the Waiver Draft - with the Hartford Whalers , where he spent his last two years in the NHL. After the Whalers released him from his contract after the 1988/89 season , the 31-year-old ended his active career immediately.

Peterson then remained loyal to the Hartford Whalers and was added to the coaching staff of the franchise. There he worked for two years as an assistant coach under the aegis of head coach Rick Ley . For the 1991/92 season , the ex-player returned to his junior team Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Hockey League (WHL). There, the team initially looked after for two seasons together with Ken Hodge and was also employed as Director of Hockey Operations before he became head coach in 1993. After he had received the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy as the best coach of the league at the end of the 1996/97 season, the biggest followed in the 1997/98 season by winning the double from the President's Cup of the WHL and the Memorial Cup of the Canadian Hockey League Success in his coaching career. After that, he ended his engagement in Portland after a total of seven years. Peterson was hired as assistant coach by the newly formed Nashville Predators , who were entering their first NHL season. He held this position until the summer of 2011, under head coach Barry Despite .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1974/75 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 66 17th 26th 43 44 - - - - -
1975/76 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 70 22nd 39 61 57 5 4th 2 6th 7th
1976/77 Portland Winter Hawks WCHL 69 34 78 112 98 10 3 8th 11 8th
1977/78 Portland Winter Hawks WCHL 51 33 50 83 95 3 1 1 2 2
1978/79 Detroit Red Wings NHL 5 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1979/80 Detroit Red Wings NHL 18th 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
1979/80 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 52 9 22nd 31 61 5 0 0 0 6th
1980/81 Detroit Red Wings NHL 53 6th 18th 24 24 - - - - -
1980/81 Adirondack Red Wings NHL 3 1 0 1 10 - - - - -
1981/82 Detroit Red Wings NHL 15th 1 0 1 6th - - - - -
1981/82 Buffalo Sabers NHL 46 9 5 14th 43 4th 1 0 1 12
1982/83 Buffalo Sabers NHL 75 13 24 37 38 10 1 2 3 28
1983/84 Buffalo Sabers NHL 70 9 12 21st 52 3 0 1 1 4th
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 74 12 22nd 34 47 5 0 0 0 6th
1985/86 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 8th 23 31 94 3 2 0 2 9
1986/87 Vancouver Canucks NHL 69 7th 15th 22nd 77 - - - - -
1987/88 Hartford Whalers NHL 52 2 7th 9 40 4th 0 0 0 2
1988/89 Hartford Whalers NHL 66 4th 13 17th 61 2 0 1 1 4th
WCHL overall 256 106 193 299 294 18th 8th 11 19th 17th
AHL total 55 10 22nd 32 71 5 0 0 0 6th
NHL overall 620 72 141 213 484 31 4th 4th 8th 65

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Peterson, Brent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peterson, Brent Ronald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada