Corey Hirsch

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CanadaCanada  Corey Hirsch Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 1, 1972
place of birth Medicine Hat , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 8th lap, 169th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1987-1988 Calgary Canucks
1988-1992 Kamloops Blazers
1992-1993 Binghamton Rangers
1993-1994 Team Canada
1994-1995 Binghamton Rangers
1995-1999 Vancouver Canucks
1999-2000 Utah Grizzlies
Milwaukee Admirals
2000-2002 Portland Pirates
2002-2003 Utah grizzlies
2003-2004 Timrå IK
2004-2005 Kassel Huskies
2005-2006 Malmo Redhawks

Corey Hirsch (born July 1, 1972 in Medicine Hat , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and currently serves as the goalkeeping coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . During his active career he played for the New York Rangers , Vancouver Canucks , Washington Capitals and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League and the Kassel Huskies in the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Corey Hirsch began his career in 1988 with the Kamloops Blazers from the Canadian Junior League WHL . After he was used as a substitute goalkeeper in his first season, he developed into one of the best young goalkeepers from his second season. After he had won the President's Cup first in the 1989/90 season and had participated with the Blazers in the Memorial Cup final round, he was appointed to the WHL West Second All-Star Team. Even so, he was not selected by any team in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft .

But also in the 1990/91 season he was able to attract attention, won 26 of his 38 games and was elected to the West First All-Star Team. The New York Rangers then finally selected him in the eighth round of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft at position 169. Hirsch stayed in the WHL for another year and celebrated the most successful season of his junior career. Again he won the President's Cup with the Blazers and this time also won the Memorial Cup. He was then awarded the Del Wilson Trophy as the best goalkeeper in the WHL as well as CHL Goaltender of the Year and was again elected to the West First All-Star Team. In addition, there was the Hap Emms Memorial Trophy as the best goalkeeper of the Memorial Cup tournament and the appointment to the Memorial Cup Tournament All-Star Team.

As impressive as his junior career ended, his professional career began well. Hirsch played only four games with the New York Rangers in the 1992/93 season , but for their farm team , the Binghamton Rangers , he was in top form in the American Hockey League (AHL). He won 35 of 46 games there with only four defeats. In the result, he received along with goalkeeper colleague Boris Rousson the Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award for the fewest goals and was even with the Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award as the best goalkeeper and the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the best rookie of the League awarded and elected to the AHL First All-Star Team .

Hirsch spent most of the 1993/94 season in the Canadian national team in preparation for the 1994 Winter Olympics , for which no NHL players were released at that time. Hirsch went to the Olympic ice hockey tournament as a regular goalkeeper and led the team to the final, where they were only inferior to the Swedes in the penalty shootout .

In the fall of 1994 he returned to the Binghamton Senators and denied the season without being called to the NHL roster. Instead, he was transferred to the Vancouver Canucks at the end of the season . There he shared the regular place in goal with Kirk McLean during the 1995/96 season , but showed better performances than his six-year-old compatriot, and the Canucks relied on him in the playoffs, where they failed in the first round. After the end of the season, Hirsch received another award when he was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team .

In 1996/97 Hirsch shared the appearances in goal again with McLean, but he could not build on the form of the previous season. When in the summer of 1997, Artūrs Irbe , another goalkeeper was committed, Hirsch had to leave the Canucks NHL squad and played the 1997/98 season with the Syracuse Crunch , the AHL farm team from Vancouver. In the following season he came in the NHL at least 20 missions as a substitute goalkeeper behind Garth Snow , but in the summer of 1999, the Canucks parted ways with Hirsch.

In August 1999 he then signed a contract with the Nashville Predators , for which he was never used in the NHL, but instead played for their farm teams from the AHL and the International Hockey League , the Milwaukee Admirals and the Utah Grizzlies . During the current season he was transferred to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in March 2000 . But even there he got no chance in the NHL, and the Mighty Ducks did not extend his contract, which was running out at the end of the season.

He was not signed by any team during the summer of 2000, and it wasn't until the 2000/01 season was underway that the Washington Capitals signed him in late October. But even here he spent most of the time with the farm teams and did not get more than 20 minutes in the NHL. When his contract expired in the summer of 2001, he spent the following season in the AHL with the Philadelphia Phantoms and the Portland Pirates .

It was not until August 2002 that he received an NHL contract with the Dallas Stars again , but spent most of the time again in the lower class AHL before he came to two appearances in the NHL in March 2003. When his expiring contract was not renewed again and he also did not find a place with any other team in the NHL, Hirsch went to Sweden in November 2003 and played there in the Elitserien for Timrå IK . He left Sweden after only five missions at the end of the season and signed with the Lausanne Hockey Club in Switzerland, for which he never played a game. A few months later he went to the Kassel Huskies from the German Ice Hockey League . But even there he did not have a positive season, as the club was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga , but were allowed to stay in the top German division after the license withdrawal against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg .

Hirsch decided to change clubs again and returned to Sweden, where he played for the Malmö Redhawks in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan in 2005/06 and helped as a regular goalkeeper with good performances for promotion to the Elitserien.

Corey Hirsch then ended his playing career and returned to North America. There he worked for the Canadian ice hockey association Hockey Canada as a goalkeeper advisor and was responsible for the goalkeepers of the junior national teams. At the Junior World Championships in 2007 and 2008 , the U20 national team of Canada was able to win the gold medal. The first time he won the title, goalkeeper Carey Price and the second time goalkeeper Steve Mason were named Most Valuable Player of the World Cup.

In September 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs hired him as a goalkeeping coach.

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personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Corey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Medicine Hat , Alberta