Darren McCarty

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Darren McCarty
Date of birth April 1, 1972
place of birth Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada
Nickname D-Mac
size 185 cm
Weight 98 kg
position Right wing
number # 25
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd lap, 46th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1989-1992 Belleville Bulls
1992-1993 Adirondack Red Wings
1993-2005 Detroit Red Wings
2005-2007 Calgary Flames
2008 Flint Generals
Grand Rapids Griffins
2008-2009 Detroit Red Wings

Darren Douglas McCarty (* 1. April 1972 in Burnaby , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1989 to 2009 among other 932 games for the Detroit Red Wings and Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League on the Has contested the position of the right winger . McCarty, who embodied the Enforcer player type and spent most of his career with the Detroit Red Wings, won the Stanley Cup four times with the team between 1997 and 2008 .

Career

Darren McCarty grew up in Leamington , Ontario , and began his career in 1989 in the junior Ontario Hockey League with the Belleville Bulls . In the 1991/92 season he scored 127 points in 65 games and drew the attention of the scouts of the National Hockey League . In the 1992 NHL Entry Draft he was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round at position 46. In 1992/93 he played in the American Hockey League for the Detroit farm team , the Adirondack Red Wings .

Darren McCarty in the Calgary Flames jersey

In 1993/94 he made his debut in the NHL and immediately established himself with the Red Wings. The 1996/97 season was particularly memorable. In a mass brawl with the Colorado Avalanche , the Hockeytown brawl , McCarty took revenge on Claude Lemieux , who had checked McCarty's teammate Kris Draper into the gang the previous year , resulting in facial fractures and a concussion. It was McCarty, of all people, who scored the winning goal in extra time in this game. The Red Wings moved into the playoffs up to the final of the Stanley Cup and it was Darren McCarty who ensured that the cup came back to Detroit after more than 40 years with his game-winning goal. He also achieved a personal record with 49 points scored in the regular season.

In 1998 the Red Wings were able to defend the Stanley Cup. In 2002 McCarty scored his first hat trick of his NHL career against the Colorado Avalanche in the playoffs . Detroit moved back to the Stanley Cup final and took the third title since 1997. McCarty played most of his time in Detroit in the infamous " Grind Line " with Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby .

After the 2004/05 NHL season was canceled due to the lockout , the Red Wings and Darren McCarty separated. McCarty was paid off and the contract terminated. In August 2005 he signed a contract with the Calgary Flames . After a solid first season, 2006/07 was followed by a weak season, which was marked by injuries and he remained without a scorer point in 32 games. His contract was not renewed by the Flames in the summer of 2007.

Since McCarty time, wanted to take to bring his life back regulated railways after he went bankrupt in 2006 and even his Stanley Cup rings auction had, he made his comeback in January 2008, but only in the unterklassigen IHL in Flint Generals . A month later he received a trial contract until the end of the season with the Grand Rapids Griffins , the AHL farm team of the Detroit Red Wings. There he showed convincing performances, even scored a hat trick in one of his first games, whereupon the Detroit Red Wings finally gave him an NHL contract until the end of the season a day before the end of the transfer window. McCarty stayed with the Griffins for a week and a half before he was brought into the NHL squad on March 7. His comeback in the NHL was due to a rib injury at the end of the month and remained at the beginning of the playoffs as a replacement for the injured Kirk Maltby in the regular Wings squad. After Maltby recovered from his injury, McCarty jumped in more times with injuries to Johan Franzén and Tomas Holmström and supported the Red Wings in a total of 17 playoff games on the way to the Stanley Cup victory.

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season he was still in the NHL squad, but was only used occasionally before he had to pause longer due to an injury in December. In February 2009 he returned to the AHL at the Grand Rapids Griffins back on the ice and was able to show good performance there on the offensive. On December 1, 2009 he ended his playing career.

McCarty distinguished himself primarily not as a goalscorer or preparer, but as a player who prefers a tough game and does not shy away from fights on the ice. While it is rather unpopular with the opposing players, it enjoys great popularity with the fans.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 Belleville Bulls OHL 63 12 15th 27 142 11 1 1 2 21st
1990/91 Belleville Bulls OHL 60 30th 37 67 151 6th 2 2 4th 13
1991/92 Belleville Bulls OHL 65 55 72 127 177 5 1 4th 5 13
1992/93 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 73 17th 19th 36 278 11 0 1 1 33
1993/94 Detroit Red Wings NHL 67 9 17th 26th 181 7th 2 2 4th 8th
1994/95 Detroit Red Wings NHL 35 5 8th 13 88 18th 3 2 5 14th
1995/96 Detroit Red Wings NHL 63 15th 14th 29 158 19th 3 2 5 20th
1996/97 Detroit Red Wings NHL 68 19th 30th 49 126 20th 3 4th 7th 34
1997/98 Detroit Red Wings NHL 71 15th 22nd 37 157 22nd 3 8th 11 34
1998/99 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 14th 26th 40 108 10 1 1 2 23
1999/00 Detroit Red Wings NHL 24 6th 6th 12 48 9 0 1 1 12
2000/01 Detroit Red Wings NHL 72 12 10 22nd 123 6th 1 0 1 2
2001/02 Detroit Red Wings NHL 62 5 7th 12 98 23 4th 4th 8th 34
2002/03 Detroit Red Wings NHL 73 13 9 22nd 138 4th 0 0 0 6th
2003/04 Detroit Red Wings NHL 43 6th 5 12 50 12 0 1 1 7th
2004/05 Detroit Red Wings NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Calgary Flames NHL 67 7th 6th 13 117 7th 2 0 2 15th
2006/07 Calgary Flames NHL 32 0 0 0 58 - - - - -
2007/08 Flint Generals IHL 11 3 3 6th 30th - - - - -
2007/08 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 13 5 5 10 21st - - - - -
2007/08 Detroit Red Wings NHL 3 0 1 1 2 17th 1 1 2 19th
2008/09 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 19th 5 6th 11 21st 10 3 1 4th 8th
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 1 0 1 25th - - - - -
OHL total 188 97 124 221 470 22nd 4th 7th 11 47
AHL total 105 27 30th 57 320 21st 3 2 5 41
NHL overall 758 127 161 288 1477 174 23 26th 49 228

( 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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personal data
SURNAME McCarty, Darren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCarty, Darren Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Burnaby , British Columbia, Canada