Chris Herperger
Date of birth | February 24, 1974 |
place of birth | Esterhazy , Saskatchewan , Canada |
size | 182 cm |
Weight | 93 kg |
position | center |
number | # 12 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1992 , 10th lap, 223rd position Philadelphia Flyers |
Career stations | |
1990-1992 | Swift Current Broncos |
1992-1995 | Seattle Thunderbirds |
1995-1996 | Hershey Bears |
1996-1997 | Baltimore Bandits |
1998-1999 | Indianapolis Ice |
1999-2000 | Cleveland Lumberjacks |
2000-2001 | Chicago Blackhawks |
2001-2002 | Ottawa Senators |
2002-2003 | Atlanta Thrashers |
2003-2006 | Krefeld penguins |
2006-2007 | Kloten Flyers |
2007-2013 | Hanover Scorpions |
Chris Herperger (born February 24, 1974 in Esterhazy , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Blackhawks , Ottawa Senators and Atlanta Thrashers in the National Hockey League and for the Krefeld Pinguine and Hanover Scorpions in the German Ice Hockey League was active.
Career
Herperger began his career with the Swift Current Broncos in the Canadian Junior League WHL , for which he was on the ice for a total of two and a half seasons from 1990 to 1993. Then you gave the center to the Seattle Thunderbirds , where he played again until 1995 for two and a half years. In his junior career, the Canadian completed a total of 278 appearances in which he scored 137 goals and 277 points. This brought Herperger a 10th round drawing in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft when the Philadelphia Flyers secured his rights to position 223. In his last junior season, the attacker played his first games for the Hershey Bears , the Flyers' farm team in the American Hockey League .
In these four games Herperger remained without a point, but in the following two years he came for the Bears and the Baltimore Bandits on 134 games, in which the Canadian was successful with 29 goals and 66 points. After a year with Team Canada , the striker returned to the International Hockey League , via the Indianapolis Ice he came to the organization of the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1998/99 season . In the Cleveland Lumberjacks farm team Herperger completed 73 games, in which he was able to record both 22 goals and 48 points and 122 penalty minutes.
These values earned the attacker the first missions with the Blackhawks, for which he was allowed to enter NHL ice nine times, still without points. Nevertheless, Herperger's performance was good enough that he was called back to the NHL after nine games the following season and now remained in the best league in the world for the entire season. The Canadian built a reputation for himself as a strong third-row player in these 61 missions and was also able to score ten goals and 25 points, with only 20 penalty minutes being extremely fair.
As a free agent , Herperger finally signed a contract with league rivals Ottawa Senators for the 2001/02 season , for which he completed another full season with 72 missions, four goals and 13 points. Nevertheless, the Senators gave the center forward to the Atlanta Thrashers after the season , where he suffered a concussion right at the start of the season and could only play 27 missions. Renewed injuries threw Herperger back again, so that he was only used in the AHL with the Chicago Wolves .
In January, the Senators exchanged the rights to Herperger with the Vancouver Canucks , for their farm team, the Manitoba Moose, he completed another 15 games before another concussion put him out of action and his season ended. The attacker played with his future Krefeld teammate Justin Kurtz at the Moose . Since his chances of another NHL engagement seemed rather slim, he then signed a contract with the reigning German champions Krefeld Pinguine .
Herperger had already fought in a preparatory game in Düsseldorf in which an opponent came up to him from behind and grabbed his arm and tore around that he dislocated his shoulder and was out for weeks at the start of the season. Although the season was disappointing for both KEV and Herperger, the club took the option to extend their contract. Together with his strike partner Alexander Seliwanow , Herperger was one of the dominant players in the entire league at the beginning of the 2004/05 season . On December 17, 2005, the Canadian was able to write himself down in the history books against the Eisbären Berlin as the first goal scorer in the newly opened KönigPALAST .
In the 2005/06 season Herperger was the team captain of the Krefeld Pinguine , but his contract, which ran until the 2006/07 season , was terminated on August 5, 2006 by mutual agreement. The attacker spent the 2006/07 season with the Kloten Flyers in Switzerland, where he scored 33 points in 44 games. For the 2007/08 season , the Canadian returned to the German Ice Hockey League, where he was signed by the Hanover Scorpions . There, however, he injured himself in a duel against the gang in January in the league game against the Straubing Tigers so unfortunate that the diagnosed syndesmosis ligament rupture put him out of action for the rest of the season.
Herperger was German champion with the Hannover Scorpions in the 2009/10 season before retiring in March 2013.
Achievements and Awards
- 2009 Participation in the DEL All-Star Game
- 2010 German champion with the Hannover Scorpions
Career statistics
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1990/91 | Swift Current Broncos | WHL | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1991/92 | Swift Current Broncos | WHL | 72 | 14th | 19th | 33 | 44 | 8th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||
1992/93 | Swift Current Broncos | WHL | 20th | 9 | 7th | 16 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1992/93 | Seattle Thunderbirds | WHL | 46 | 20th | 11 | 31 | 30th | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6th | ||
1993/94 | Seattle Thunderbirds | WHL | 71 | 44 | 51 | 95 | 110 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 22nd | 12 | ||
1994/95 | Seattle Thunderbirds | WHL | 59 | 49 | 52 | 101 | 106 | 4th | 4th | 0 | 4th | 6th | ||
1994/95 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1995/96 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 46 | 8th | 12 | 20th | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1995/96 | Baltimore Bandits | AHL | 21st | 2 | 3 | 5 | 17th | 9 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6th | ||
1996/97 | Baltimore Bandits | AHL | 67 | 19th | 22nd | 41 | 88 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1998/99 | Indianapolis Ice | IHL | 79 | 19th | 29 | 48 | 81 | 7th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 4th | ||
1999/00 | Cleveland Lumberjacks | IHL | 73 | 22nd | 26th | 48 | 122 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 8th | ||
1999/00 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2000/01 | Norfolk Admirals | AHL | 9 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2000/01 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 61 | 10 | 15th | 25th | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | Ottawa Senators | NHL | 72 | 4th | 9 | 13 | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2002/03 | Atlanta Thrashers | NHL | 27 | 4th | 1 | 5 | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2002/03 | Chicago Wolves | AHL | 7th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2002/03 | Manitoba mosses | AHL | 15th | 6th | 6th | 12 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | Krefeld penguins | DEL | 38 | 10 | 16 | 26th | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2004/05 | Krefeld penguins | DEL | 41 | 16 | 14th | 30th | 98 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2005/06 | Krefeld penguins | DEL | 50 | 18th | 30th | 48 | 86 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||
2006/07 | EHC Kloten | NLA | 44 | 12 | 21st | 33 | 69 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 26th | ||
2007/08 | Hanover Scorpions | DEL | 39 | 16 | 21st | 37 | 61 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | Hanover Scorpions | DEL | 51 | 13 | 23 | 36 | 58 | 11 | 6th | 8th | 14th | 4th | ||
2009/10 | Hanover Scorpions | DEL | 39 | 12 | 18th | 30th | 52 | 11 | 7th | 5 | 12 | 4th | ||
2010/11 | Hanover Scorpions | DEL | 49 | 18th | 24 | 42 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 26th | ||
2011/12 | Hanover Scorpions | DEL | 49 | 16 | 23 | 39 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Hanover Scorpions | DEL | 26th | 7th | 13 | 20th | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
WHL overall | 278 | 137 | 140 | 277 | 326 | 26th | 17th | 12 | 29 | 33 | ||||
AHL total | 169 | 37 | 48 | 85 | 276 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6th | ||||
IHL total | 152 | 41 | 55 | 96 | 203 | 16 | 3 | 7th | 10 | 12 | ||||
DEL total | 382 | 126 | 182 | 308 | 493 | 32 | 15th | 20th | 35 | 46 | ||||
NHL overall | 169 | 18th | 25th | 43 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 )
Web links
- Chris Herperger at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Chris Herperger at hockeydb.com (English)
- Chris Herperger at eurohockey.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Herperger, Chris |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Esterhazy , Saskatchewan , Canada |