Chris Herperger

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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

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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 )

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