Daniel Cleary

Daniel Cleary
Date of birth	December 18, 1978
place of birth	Carbonear , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 11
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1997 , 1st round, 13th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1994-1998	Belleville Bulls
1998-1999	Chicago Blackhawks
1999-2003	Edmonton Oilers
2003-2004	Phoenix Coyotes
2004-2005	Mora IK
2005-2015	Detroit Red Wings
2015-2017	Grand Rapids Griffins

Daniel Michael Thomas Cleary (born December 18, 1978 in Carbonear , Newfoundland and Labrador ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 1059 games for the Chicago Blackhawks , Edmonton Oilers , Phoenix Coyotes and Detroit Red in the course of his active career between 1994 and 2017 Wings in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . With the Detroit Red Wings, Cleary won the Stanley Cup in 2008 .

Career

Cleary in the jersey of the Detroit Red Wings

Daniel Cleary began his career in 1994 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , where he played for the Belleville Bulls . In his first season he was able to convince and scored 81 points in 62 games. The following year he was able to improve and came to 115 points. He was chosen for his good performance in the First All-Star Team of the OHL. In the 1996/97 season, his point yield dropped slightly, but he was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks from the National Hockey League in the first round of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in 13th position.

The striker made his debut in the National Hockey League at the beginning of the 1997/98 season , but was sent back to the OHL after six games. There were also four games for the Indianapolis Ice , a Blackhawks farm team , in the International Hockey League . In the 1998/99 season he completed 35 games for the Blackhawks in the NHL, but also came to appearances for their farm team in the American Hockey League , the Portland Pirates , before he was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers in March 1999 . He played the rest of the season in the AHL with the Hamilton Bulldogs .

In the course of the 1999/2000 season Cleary came only sporadically to missions for the Oilers. Instead, he was able to prove his skills in the AHL. In 58 games he reached 74 points and was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the AHL. In the following three years he was part of the permanent squad of the Edmonton Oilers. In the summer of 2003, however, his current contract was paid off ( buy-out ) and the team separated from Cleary. He then signed with the Phoenix Coyotes , for which he played the 2003/04 season .

Due to the lockout and the associated cancellation of the 2004/05 NHL season , Cleary moved to the Swedish Elitserien to Mora IK . After his return to North America, the Canadian was initially without a contract, but was able to prevail in the training camp of the Detroit Red Wings and denied the 2005/06 season mainly in their third or fourth series. In the summer of 2006 he received a new two-year contract from the Red Wings. Cleary was also able to convince immediately and played his best season as he scored 20 goals and was able to prepare another 20. He also moved with the Red Wings in the playoffs to the final of the Western Conference . In the 2007/08 season Cleary built on the good performance of the previous year and was able to set his personal best of 40 points scorer in the 56th game of the season, but he broke his jaw in the following game and was out for six weeks. After his return at the end of March 2008, he was able to expand his personal record in the remaining games to 42 points. In the subsequent playoffs, he became the first native Newfoundland dog to win the Stanley Cup .

Cleary initially remained in the Detroit squad until the end of the 2014/15 season and was mainly used in outnumbered situations, he also played for several years with Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby in the checking line . After ten years in the NHL squad of the Red Wings, Cleary was handed over to the AHL farm team, the Grand Rapids Griffins , for the first time in the run-up to the 2015/16 season . The attacker spent the two game years there until the summer of 2017, although he did not play any more games in the 2016/17 season and instead took on a role as a mentor for the younger players in the squad. After winning the Calder Cup in June 2017, Cleary retired from his active career at the age of 38.

International

Cleary represented his home country at the 2002 World Cup in Sweden . There he reached sixth place with the Canadians. In seven tournament games, the striker got three points. There were two gates underneath.

Achievements and Awards

1995 OHL First All-Rookie Team 1995 CHL All-Rookie Team 1996 OHL First All-Star Team 1996 CHL Second All-Star Team

1997 OHL First All-Star Team 2000 AHL All-Star Classic 2000 AHL Second All-Star Team 2008 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1994/95	Belleville Bulls	OHL		62	26th	55	81	62		16	7th	10	17th	23
1995/96	Belleville Bulls	OHL		64	53	62	115	74		14th	10	17th	27	40
1996/97	Belleville Bulls	OHL		64	32	48	80	88		6th	3	4th	7th	6th
1997/98	Belleville Bulls	OHL		30th	16	31	47	14th		10	6th	17th	23	10
1997/98	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		6th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		4th	2	1	3	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		35	4th	5	9	24		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Portland Pirates	AHL		30th	9	17th	26th	74		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		9	0	1	1	7th		3	0	0	0	0
1999/00	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		58	22nd	52	74	108		5	2	3	5	18th
1999/00	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		17th	3	2	5	8th		4th	0	1	1	2
2000/01	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		81	14th	21st	35	37		6th	1	1	2	8th
2001/02	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		65	10	19th	29	51		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		57	4th	13	17th	31		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		68	6th	11	17th	42		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Mora IK	Elitserien		47	11	26th	37	138		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		77	3	12	15th	40		6th	0	1	1	6th
2006/07	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		71	20th	20th	40	24		18th	4th	8th	12	30th
2007/08	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		63	20th	22nd	42	33		22nd	2	1	3	4th
2008/09	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		74	14th	26th	40	46		23	9	6th	15th	12
2009/10	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		64	15th	19th	34	29		12	2	0	2	4th
2010/11	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		68	26th	20th	46	20th		11	2	4th	6th	6th
2011/12	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		75	12	21st	33	30th		5	0	0	0	2
2012/13	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		48	9	6th	15th	40		14th	4th	6th	10	2
2013/14	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		52	4th	4th	8th	31		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		17th	1	1	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		35	3	12	15th	8th		9	0	0	0	6th
OHL total				220	127	196	323	238		46	26th	48	74	79
AHL total				132	34	82	116	197		17th	2	3	5	24
NHL overall				938	165	222	387	492		121	24	28	52	76

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2002

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002	Canada	WM	6th place		7th	2	1	3	2
Men overall					7th	2	1	3	2

Web links

Commons : Daniel Cleary  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Daniel Cleary at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Daniel Cleary at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nhl.com, Native son Cleary makes Newfoundland proud