Chris Chelios

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United StatesUnited States  Chris Chelios Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2013
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2018
Chris Chelios
Date of birth January 25, 1962
place of birth Chicago , Illinois , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 87 kg
position defender
number # 24
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 2nd lap, 40th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1979-1981 Moose Jaw Canucks
1981-1983 University of Wisconsin – Madison
1983-1984 USA hockey
1984-1990 Canadiens de Montréal
1990-1999 Chicago Blackhawks
2004-2005 Motor City Mechanics
1999-2009 Detroit Red Wings
2009-2010 Chicago Wolves
2010 Atlanta Thrashers

Chris Chelios (born January 25, 1962 as Christos Kostas Tselios in Chicago , Illinois ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach of Greek descent. Between 1983 and 2010 he played a total of over 1900 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , Chicago Blackhawks , Detroit Red Wings and Atlanta Thrashers in the National Hockey League . During this time he won the Stanley Cup in 1986 with the Canadiens and in 2002 and 2008 with the Red Wings . He also represented the USA national team at four Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2002 and a gold medal at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey .

Chelios is considered one of the best defenders of his generation, so he was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy three times as the best defender in the NHL. He also holds a number of NHL records , with no player playing more playoffs (24) or playoff games (266) than him, while he is the oldest Stanley Cup winner to date. He is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame , the IIHF Hall of Fame, and the United States Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Chelios played during his junior years with the Moose Jaw Canucks in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League . Here the defender was able to draw attention to himself both on the offensive, but also through his robust physical use. In the 1981 NHL Entry Draft he was drawn by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League in the second round to 40th position, but stayed in Moose Jaw and then played for two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a game division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . He then worked for the US hockey association USA Hockey in the 1984/84 season in order to prepare intensively for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo .

It was not until the end of the 1983/84 season that Chelios was appointed to the Canadiens' NHL squad for the first time. After twelve games with just two assists in the regular season, he drew attention to himself with ten points scorer in 15 playoff games. In his first full season, the defender, who at 22 was a relatively old rookie , made a big impression in the league with 64 scorer points in 74 games. He was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team and could have won the Calder Memorial Trophy in many other years , but since Mario Lemieux made his debut that year, Chelios only stayed second. In the following 1985/86 season he won his first Stanley Cup with the Canadiens . Outstanding was his performance in the 1988/89 season when he was elected to the League's First All-Star Team and was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the best defender in the NHL . He stayed in Montréal for seven seasons and was also the Canadiens' first US team captain in his final season . In the summer of 1990 Chelios was given to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Denis Savard in his hometown .

Chris Chelios in the jersey of the Detroit Red Wings

His start in Chicago was good and he was able to win the James Norris Memorial Trophy again in the 1992/93 season . Even before he was named team captain in 1995, he was the figurehead and face of the Blackhawks. In 1999, the 37-year-old Chelios was certainly no longer the outstanding player he had been in the late 1980s to mid-1990s, but he was still able to help a good team and so the Detroit Red Wings won him in 1999. After a decent season in 2000/01 , he suffered a knee injury in November 2001 and had to pause large parts of the 2001/02 season . He returned to the following season and was able to win his second Stanley Cup in 2002 with the Red Wings .

Chelios, who turned 45 in January 2007, signed a contract with the Red Wings for the 2006/07 season . After the retirement of his teammate Steve Yzerman , he was the active player with the most NHL games. On April 21, 2007 in the game against the Calgary Flames , he became the oldest defender who managed an underpaid goal in the NHL playoffs . After the end of the 2006/07 season, Chelios received the first ever Mark Messier Leader of the Year Award for his exceptional leadership skills. For the 2007/08 season , the Detroit Red Wings and manager Ken Holland signed another contract with Chris Chelios. On January 8, 2008, Chelios became the second oldest NHL player of all time at 45 years and 348 days. He had overtaken Moe Roberts and only Gordie Howe in front of him, who had played for the Hartford Whalers at the age of 52 . In the same year, Chelios won the Stanley Cup for the third time with Detroit, becoming the oldest Stanley Cup winner in NHL history.

After he was rarely used for Detroit in the 2008/09 season , his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2009. Despite his announcement that he still wanted to play ice hockey professionally at the age of 47, he did not receive any offers from other NHL teams until August. He signed a 25-game deal with the Chicago Wolves , the Atlanta Thrashers' farm team . He fulfilled this and another 25-game contract with the Wolves and then received a contract that enabled him to play with the Atlanta Thrashers in the NHL. He completed seven more games in the NHL before retiring after the 2009-10 season. No player in league history played more games as a defender or playoffs than Chelios. In 2011 he was honored with the induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame , two years later he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

In the summer of 2010, Chelios returned to the Detroit Red Wings, initially serving as Senior Advisor to Hockey Operations for five years . For the 2015/16 season he was promoted to the Red Wings coaching team and has been an assistant coach ever since. In the same position he worked at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2016 for the United States U20 team . For the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea , Chelios was also nominated as assistant coach of the US men's selection . In December 2017 it was announced that Chelios was one of the six new inductees into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2018. After the 2017/18 season, his work as an assistant coach at Red Wings ended.

International

Chelios represented his home country in the junior division at the 1982 Junior World Championships , where the Americans finished sixth.

For the men's selection , the defender took part in the 1984 , 1998 , 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics. He was also on the squad at the Canada Cups in 1984 , 1987 and 1991 and the successor World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and 2004 . He was able to win the World Cup of Hockey with the US Boys in 1996, after finishing the previous tournament in 1991 in second place. He was also elected to the All-Star Team of the World Cup. Six years later he won the silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and found himself again in the All-Star team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1979/80 Moose Jaw Canucks SJHL 53 12 31 43 118 - - - - -
1980/81 Moose Jaw Canucks SJHL 54 23 64 87 175 - - - - -
1981/82 University of Wisconsin – Madison NCAA 43 6th 43 49 50
1982/83 University of Wisconsin-Madison NCAA 26th 9 17th 26th 50
1983/84 USA hockey International 60 14th 35 49 58
1983/84 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 12 0 2 2 12 15th 1 9 10 17th
1984/85 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 74 9 55 64 87 9 2 8th 10 17th
1985/86 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 41 8th 26th 34 67 20th 2 9 11 49
1986/87 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 11 33 44 124 17th 4th 9 13 38
1987/88 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 20th 41 61 172 11 3 1 4th 29
1988/89 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 80 15th 58 73 185 21st 4th 15th 19th 28
1989/90 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 53 9 22nd 31 136 5 0 1 1 8th
1990/91 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 77 12 52 64 192 6th 1 7th 8th 46
1991/92 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 80 9 47 56 245 18th 6th 15th 21st 37
1992/93 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 84 15th 58 73 282 4th 0 2 2 14th
1993/94 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 76 16 44 60 212 6th 1 1 2 8th
1994/95 EHC Biel NLA 3 0 3 3 4th - - - - -
1994/95 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 48 5 33 38 72 16 4th 7th 11 12
1995/96 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 81 14th 58 72 140 9 0 3 3 8th
1996/97 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 72 10 38 48 112 6th 0 1 1 8th
1997/98 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 81 3 39 42 151 - - - - -
1998/99 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 65 8th 26th 34 89 - - - - -
1998/99 Detroit Red Wings NHL 10 1 1 2 4th 10 0 4th 4th 14th
1999/00 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 3 31 34 103 9 0 1 1 8th
2000/01 Detroit Red Wings NHL 24 0 3 3 45 5 1 0 1 2
2001/02 Detroit Red Wings NHL 79 6th 33 39 126 23 1 13 14th 44
2002/03 Detroit Red Wings NHL 66 2 17th 19th 78 4th 0 0 0 2
2003/04 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 2 19th 21st 61 8th 0 1 1 4th
2004/05 Motor City Mechanics UHL 23 5 19th 24 25th - - - - -
2005/06 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 4th 7th 11 108 6th 0 0 0 6th
2006/07 Detroit Red Wings NHL 71 0 11 11 34 18th 1 6th 7th 12
2007/08 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 3 9 12 36 14th 0 0 0 10
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 28 0 0 0 18th 6th 0 0 0 2
2008/09 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Chicago Wolves AHL 46 5 17th 22nd 24 - - - - -
2009/10 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 7th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
SJHL overall 107 35 95 130 293 - - - - -
NCAA overall 69 15th 60 75 100
International overall 60 14th 35 49 58
AHL total 48 5 18th 23 26th - - - - -
NHL overall 1651 185 763 948 2891 266 31 113 144 423

International

Represented the USA at:

 

Represented the National Hockey League at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1982 United States June World Cup 6th place 7th 1 2 3 10
1984 United States Olympia 7th place 6th 0 4th 4th 8th
1984 United States Canada Cup 4th Place 6th 0 2 2 2
1987 NHL All-Stars Date - 2 0 0 0 0
1987 United States Canada Cup 5th place 5 0 2 2 2
1991 United States Canada Cup 2nd place 8th 1 3 4th 4th
1996 United States World cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 4th 4th 10
1998 United States Olympia 6th place 4th 2 0 2 2
2002 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 1 0 1 4th
2004 United States World cup 4th Place 5 0 1 1 6th
2006 United States Olympia 8th place 6th 0 1 1 2
Juniors overall 7th 1 2 3 10
Men overall 55 4th 17th 21st 40

( 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 )

Others

Cheli's Children's Foundation

Chelios founded a foundation in 1986 that collects money for abused or seriously ill children, from 1990 to 1996 together with Jeremy Roenick , since then alone again. Several events take place every year, e.g. B. the Chris Chelios Charity Golf Classic or the Chris Chelios Hockey Camp .

Cheli's chili

Chelios has two bars called "Cheli's Chili Bar". The first opened in Dearborn, Michigan in 2003 , and the second opened in 2006 in downtown Detroit in a three-story house. He used to have a bar in Chicago, which was closed after moving to the Red Wings.

On the morning of January 2, 2007, the restaurant manager and the cook of "Cheli's Chili" were found stabbed to death on the second floor of the house. The police then arrested a 17-year-old former employee who had been fired a few months earlier. The video surveillance in the bar could identify him. On 22 August 2007, the perpetrator was for murder found guilty of first degree. Two weeks later, his sentence was set to life with no chance of early parole.

Web links

Commons : Chris Chelios  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ESPN.com Ex-busboy sentenced to life for slayings in Chelios' Detroit restaurant
personal data
SURNAME Chelios, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chelios, Christos Kostas (full name); Tselios, Christos Kostas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois