Dave Andreychuk

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CanadaCanada  Dave Andreychuk Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2017
Dave Andreychuk
Date of birth September 29, 1963
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 1st lap, 16th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1980-1982 Oshawa Generals
1982-1993 Buffalo Sabers
1993-1996 Toronto Maple Leafs
1996-1999 New Jersey Devils
1999-2000 Boston Bruins
2000 Colorado Avalanche
2000-2001 Buffalo Sabers
2001-2006 Tampa Bay Lightning

David John "Dave" Andreychuk (born September 29, 1963 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who worked for the Buffalo Sabers , Toronto Maple Leafs , New Jersey Devils , Boston Bruins , Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay from 1982 to 2006 Lightning played in the National Hockey League .

Andreychuk is considered to be one of the most dangerous players in league history on the left winger position. Only Luc Robitaille and Brendan Shanahan have ever scored more goals than Andreychuk, who scored 640 goals in 1,639 games in the regular season and reached 1,338 points . He holds an NHL record with 274 goals in outnumbered situations . At the age of 40 he reached the finals for the Stanley Cup in the 2003/04 season for the first time in his career and won the prestigious trophy with the Tampa Bay Lightning. During his time with the Bolts , he was also their team captain at times . In 2017 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

In his second junior season with the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League , Andreychuk managed to break the 100 point mark and that earned him a place in the first round in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft . The Buffalo Sabers selected the physically strong winger in 16th position. He started the coming season again in Oshawa before he was appointed to the Sabers' NHL squad mid-season.

Andreychuk had no adjustment problems here and played consistently as a successful striker. He knew how to use his sturdy stature skillfully without being unfair. In his first NHL game for the Sabers, the attacker scored his first goal when he overcame Dan Bouchard , the goalkeeper of the Québec Nordiques . He ended his rookie season with 37 points from 43 games after missing a few games from March 1983 due to a sprained knee. In the 1984/85 season he was not spared from injuries and after a knee bruise he also suffered a fracture of the collarbone. In the following years the left winger repeatedly suffered injuries in the knee area, but he kept his performance with the Buffalo Sabers at a consistently high level.

In his eleven seasons with the Sabers, he managed to achieve just over one scorer point per game on average, with almost half of the points being goals. In the playoffs, however, he remained unsuccessful with the team and never got beyond the second round. A highlight was a game on February 6, 1986 for the Boston Bruins , in which Andreychuk scored five goals. Never has a player in the Sabers shirt scored more goals in a game. In 1990 he was nominated for the NHL All-Star Game for the first time and also scored a goal. In his last two seasons with the Sabers from 1991 to 1993, Andreychuk played together with Pat LaFontaine and Alexander Mogilny in a row.

In February 1993, the Sabers gave her longtime striker with Daren Puppa and a draft law with which the Sabers Kenny Jönsson brought to the Toronto Maple Leafs from to Grant Fuhr to get. When Andreychuk left the Sabers, he finished second in the franchise's all-time scorer list with 804 points from 837 games. In Toronto they were in the process of building up a new successful team for Doug Gilmour and the goal- scoring Andreychuk fit perfectly into the concept. After a good remaining season in which Andreychuk reached the Conference Finals with the Maple Leafs, his most successful season followed in 1993/94 . With 53 goals and 99 scorer points, it was the most successful season of a left winger in the Maple Leafs jersey. With his 53 goals in the regular season, he broke the previous team record for the most goals by a left winger, which Frank Mahovlich had previously held with 48 goals since the 1960/61 season . In January 1994 he took part in the NHL All-Star Game for the second time in his career and was successful with one goal and one assist.

For the trade deadline of the 1995/96 season , he was given on March 13, 1996 in exchange for two draft picks to the New Jersey Devils . Here, too, he spent more than three seasons and at times played together with Neal Broten and John MacLean in a row. In April 1996, within a few days, he reached both the 1,000-point mark in the NHL and the milestone with 1,000 completed NHL games. In July 1999, he signed as a free agent a contract with the Boston Bruins before the striker in March 2000 in a barter together with Ray Bourque for Brian Rolston , Martin Grenier , Samuel Påhlsson and a first-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 to the Colorado Avalanche has been submitted. For the 2000/01 season he returned to the Buffalo Sabers.

In July 2001 Dave Andreychuk decided to move to Florida, where the Tampa Bay Lightning played as a previously unsuccessful team. Andreychuk brought his experience to the table to build a successful team here as captain . In the first season, participation in the playoffs was missed, but at the side of the veteran some young players matured into a homogeneous team. The final round was reached in the second season and the team survived the first round for the first time in the club's history. With players like Vincent Lecavalier , Brad Richards , Cory Stillman and Martin St. Louis , Andreychuk managed to win the Stanley Cup in his 23rd NHL season . Thereby he set the record of Ray Bourque, who also needed 22 years to try to hold the Stanley Cup in his hands. At the age of 40, since May 25, 2004, he has been the oldest player in the history of the league to reach the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in his career.

After the Bolts put him on the waiver list in January 2006 and the striker was not selected by any team, he retired from his career.

In his hometown of Hamilton , the Mountain Arena ice rink was renamed after him ( Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena & Skating Center ). In 2009 he was inducted into the Buffalo Sabers Hall of Fame . He was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017 .

International

At the international level, Andreychuk represented Canada at the U20 Junior World Cup in 1983 , where he scored eleven points in seven matches and won the bronze medal with the team. Three years later, he took part in the 1986 World Cup as a member of the Canadian selection and contributed five points from ten games to winning the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

International

Records

NHL
  • 274 overpaid goals
team

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1979/80 Hamilton Hawks OMHA 21st 25th 24 49 - - - - - -
1980/81 Oshawa Generals OMJHL 67 22nd 22nd 44 80 10 3 2 5 20th
1981/82 Oshawa Generals OHL 67 57 43 100 71 3 1 4th 5 16
1982/83 Oshawa Generals OHL 14th 8th 24 32 6th - - - - -
1982/83 Buffalo Sabers NHL 43 14th 23 37 16 4th 1 0 1 4th
1983/84 Buffalo Sabers NHL 78 38 42 80 42 2 0 1 1 2
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 64 31 30th 61 54 5 4th 2 6th 4th
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 36 51 87 61 - - - - -
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 77 25th 48 73 46 - - - - -
1987/88 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 30th 48 78 112 6th 2 4th 6th 0
1988/89 Buffalo Sabers NHL 56 28 24 52 40 5 0 3 3 0
1989/90 Buffalo Sabers NHL 73 40 42 82 42 6th 2 5 7th 2
1990/91 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 36 33 69 32 6th 2 2 4th 8th
1991/92 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 41 50 91 71 7th 1 3 4th 12
1992/93 Buffalo Sabers NHL 52 29 32 61 48 - - - - -
1992/93 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 31 25th 13 38 8th 21st 12 7th 19th 35
1993/94 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 83 53 46 99 98 18th 5 5 10 16
1994/95 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 48 22nd 16 38 34 7th 3 2 5 25th
1995/96 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 61 20th 24 44 54 - - - - -
1995/96 New Jersey Devils NHL 15th 8th 5 13 10 - - - - -
1996/97 New Jersey Devils NHL 82 27 34 61 48 1 0 0 0 0
1997/98 New Jersey Devils NHL 75 14th 34 48 26th 6th 1 0 1 4th
1998/99 New Jersey Devils NHL 52 15th 13 28 20th 4th 2 0 2 4th
1999/00 Boston Bruins NHL 63 19th 14th 33 28 - - - - -
1999/00 Colorado Avalanche NHL 14th 1 2 3 2 17th 3 2 5 18th
2000/01 Buffalo Sabers NHL 74 20th 13 33 32 13 1 2 3 4th
2001/02 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 82 21st 17th 38 109 - - - - -
2002/03 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 72 20th 14th 34 34 11 3 3 6th 10
2003/04 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 82 21st 18th 39 42 23 1 13 14th 14th
2004/05 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 42 6th 12 18th 16 - - - - -
OMJHL / OHL total 148 87 89 176 157 13 4th 6th 10 36
NHL overall 1639 640 698 1338 1125 162 43 54 97 162

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1983 Canada June World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 6th 5 11 14th
1986 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 3 2 5 18th
Juniors overall 7th 6th 5 11 14th
Men overall 10 3 2 5 18th

( 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. ↑ cbc.ca, Dave Andreychuk clears waivers
  2. ↑ Kevin Jordan: The OHL Arena & Travel Guide - Mountain Arena, Hamilton Fincups. In: ohlarenaguide.com. March 29, 2004, accessed June 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Buffalo Sabers Hall of Fame. In: sabresalumni.com. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Andreychuk, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreychuk, David John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario