Brent Peterson (ice hockey player, 1958)
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 |
Coaching stations | |
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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
- 1997 Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy
- 1998 President's Cup win with the Portland Winter Hawks (as head coach)
- 1998 Memorial Cup win with the Portland Winter Hawks (as head coach)
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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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 )
Web links
- Brent Peterson at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Brent Peterson at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Brent Peterson at hockeydraftcentral.com
personal data | |
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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 |