Colin Patterson (ice hockey player)

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Colin Patterson (ice hockey player)
Date of birth May 11, 1960
place of birth Rexdale , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1978-1980 Royal York Royals
1980-1983 Clarkson University
1983 Colorado Flames
1983-1991 Calgary Flames
1991-1993 Buffalo Sabers
1993-1994 HK Olimpija Ljubljana

Colin Alexander Patterson (born May 11, 1960 in Rexdale , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The right winger played over 500 games for the Calgary Flames and Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League between 1983 and 1993 . With the Flames, he won the Stanley Cup in the 1989 playoffs . He also played lacrosse in his youth and won the bronze medal with the Canadian national team at the 1982 World Cup.

Career

Colin Patterson played in his youth for the Royal York Royals in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League , the secondary junior league of his home province of Ontario, which was located below the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . This was due, among other things, to the fact that Patterson also operated other sports at a high level in addition to ice hockey, especially lacrosse . In this regard, he represented the Canadian national lacrosse team at the 1982 World Cup in Baltimore , where he won the bronze medal with the team. This also ensured that he did not switch from junior to professional, but first attended Clarkson University in the United States. For their ice hockey team, the Golden Knights , the winger appeared as a regular scorer in the ECAC , recording around 50 points in a little more than 30 games in each of his three seasons, while he was part of the league's Second All-Star Team in 1983 chose. Without previously being considered in an NHL Entry Draft , he drew the attention of scouts of the National Hockey League (NHL) with these performances , so that he was equipped with a contract by the Calgary Flames in March 1983 .

The Flames used Patterson only briefly with their farm team , the Colorado Flames , in the Central Hockey League , so that he ran regularly in the NHL from October 1983. As a result, the Canadian spent eight years in Calgary and was primarily entrusted with defensive tasks, so he regularly formed a series of attacks with Doug Risebrough and Richard Kromm . The greatest success of his career was winning the Stanley Cup in the playoffs in 1989 , which was also the first title in franchise history. In addition, the Canadian had reached his career record in the NHL in the 1988/89 season with 38 points from 74 games.

After Patterson had missed almost the entire season 1990/91 due to a knee injury, the Flames gave him in October 1991 without further consideration to the Buffalo Sabers . In Buffalo he spent his last two NHL years before he let his active career end in the 1993/94 season at HK Olimpija Ljubljana in Slovenia. In total, he had completed 589 NHL games and scored 234 points scorer.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1978/79 Royal York Royals OPJHL 40 16 30th 46 13 - - - - - -
1979/80 Royal York Royals OPJHL 41 30th 60 90 44 - - - - - -
1980/81 Clarkson University NCAA 34 20th 31 51 8th
1981/82 Clarkson University NCAA 35 21st 31 52 32
1982/83 Clarkson University NCAA 31 23 29 52 30th
1982/83 Colorado Flames CHL 7th 1 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 15th
1983/84 Colorado Flames CHL 6th 2 3 5 9 - - - - - -
1983/84 Calgary Flames NHL 56 13 14th 27 +17 17th 11 1 1 2 –6 6th
1984/85 Calgary Flames NHL 57 22nd 21st 43 +20 5 4th 0 0 0 -4 5
1985/86 Calgary Flames NHL 61 14th 13 27 +8 22nd 19th 6th 3 9 ± 0 10
1986/87 Calgary Flames NHL 68 13 13 26th +6 41 6th 0 2 2 -2 2
1987/88 Calgary Flames NHL 39 7th 11 18th +7 28 9 1 0 1 -1 8th
1988/89 Calgary Flames NHL 74 14th 24 38 +44 56 22nd 3 10 13 +10 24
1989/90 Calgary Flames NHL 61 5 3 8th -4 20th - - - - - -
1990/91 Calgary Flames NHL - - - - - - 1 0 0 0 -1 0
1991/92 Buffalo Sabers NHL 52 4th 8th 12 -4 30th 5 1 0 1 -2 0
1992/93 Buffalo Sabers NHL 36 4th 2 6th -2 22nd 8th 0 1 1 ± 0 2
1993/94 HK Olimpija Ljubljana Slovenia 14th 32 51 83 6th 4th 8th 12
OPJHL total 81 46 90 136 57 - - - - - -
NCAA overall 100 64 91 155 70
CHL total 13 3 4th 7th 9 3 0 0 0 15th
NHL overall 504 96 109 205 +92 241 85 12 17th 29 –6 57

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colin Patterson. Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame, July 13, 2008, accessed June 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Patterson, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patterson, Colin Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rexdale , Ontario , Canada