David Emma

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United StatesUnited States  David Emma Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 14, 1969
place of birth Cranston , Rhode Island , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1989 , 6th lap, 110th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1987-1991 Boston College
1991-1992 USA hockey
1992-1993 Utica Devils
1993-1995 Albany River Rats
1995-1996 Detroit Vipers
1996-1997 Providence Bruins
1997-2000 EC KAC
2000-2001 Louisville Panthers
2001 Portland Pirates

David Anaclethe "Dave" Emma (born January 14, 1969 in Cranston , Rhode Island ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 34 games for the New Jersey Devils , Boston Bruins and Florida in the course of his active career between 1987 and 2001 Panthers in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Emma, ​​who won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award and the Austrian Championship , among others , played mainly in the American Hockey League .

Career

Emma spent from 1987 to 1991 a very successful junior career at Boston College , after he during his high school -time at the Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick had played. In his first year of college, from which he went on the ice parallel to his studies for the ice hockey university team in Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , the winger made it into the division's all-rookie team to become. The following year he occupied a position on the Second All-Star team. After Emma was selected in the sixth round in the sixth round of the New Jersey Devils from the National Hockey League in the summer of 1989 in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft and had increased from 32 to 51 and finally to 72 scorer points in his third year , led he joined the team in the spring of 1990 to win Hockey East. He has also received nominations for the Hockey East All-Academic Team and the NCAA East First All-American Team. In addition, the attacker was one of ten players in the final selection for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which was awarded the best college player in the country. He won this at the end of his last year at university in the spring of 1991, in which he received numerous other awards; he had scored 81 points in 39 games. The striker finished his college career with 239 points in 147 missions.

After completing his studies, Emma did not immediately switch to the professional field, but instead was signed up by the US ice hockey association USA Hockey . With his amateur status he was eligible to take part in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , France . Thus, he prepared in the 1991/92 season first for the Olympic ice hockey tournament before he was committed to the Olympics by the New Jersey Devils. They first put the 23-year-old on their farm team , the Utica Devils , in the American Hockey League . Also in the 1992/93 season Emma was mainly used for Utica in the AHL, but he also made his debut for New Jersey in the NHL, where he completed two encounters. In the following two years, the highly talented offensive player made his breakthrough in the NHL and continued to play in the AHL - meanwhile for New Jersey's new cooperation partner, the Albany River Rats . He spent a longer period in the National Hockey League in the 1993/94 season , but could not leave a lasting impression and completed a total of only seven games in the NHL and AHL together in the following game year.

Without concrete offers from the NHL, Emma decided to hire the Detroit Vipers from the International Hockey League before the 1995/96 season . There the American was able to draw attention to himself in the course of the season with 69 points in 90 missions, so that he was committed as a free agent by the Boston Bruins from the NHL in August 1996 . As in New Jersey, the former college star did not make a breakthrough again and he continued to spend the game year in the minor leagues with the Providence Bruins and Phoenix Roadrunners .

To give his career another boost, Emma decided to move abroad in the summer of 1997. He joined the EC KAC from the Austrian ice hockey league , with which he was active in the following three game years in addition to the domestic league in the Alpine league and its successor, the Interliga . In the jersey of the traditional Austrian club, the winger quickly became a top performer alongside Dmitri Kwartalnow and Stefan Nilsson . After two runner-up championships in 1998 and 1999, he crowned his three-year engagement in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee at the end of the 1999/2000 season with a double win from the Austrian championship and the inter-league.

Emma's achievements abroad were not hidden from the home teams, and so the Florida Panthers from the NHL signed the now 31-year-old in August 2000. He again failed to get a regular place in the NHL squad, so he found himself again in the AHL. There he ran for the Louisville Panthers , and after he was given in March 2001 in exchange for Rémi Royer to the Washington Capitals , for the Portland Pirates . In the NHL he came on only six appearances for Florida this season. After this further disappointment, Emma returned to Europe. This time he joined the Nürnberg Ice Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League . Due to a back injury sustained in August 2001 in preparation for the season, the American did not play a single game for Nuremberg and announced his retirement from active sport at the end of July 2002.

International

For his homeland, Emma took part in the junior world championships in 1988 in Moscow and in 1989 in her native Anchorage in the state of Alaska . He finished sixth and fifth with the US Boys, and after a no-point premiere tournament at his second World Cup he scored eight points in six missions, making him the fifth-best player on his team.

In the senior division, the attacker made his debut at the 1991 World Cup in Finland in the jersey of the US national team . There he knew how to convince even though only one goal in ten games and fourth place in the final ranking that he was in the extended line-up for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , France, due to his amateur status . After he had spent the 1991/92 season in the association, he finally belonged to the US Olympic squad. In the course of the tournament, the Americans again reached fourth place.

Emma played his last games in the US jersey at the 1999 World Cup in Norway , after successfully qualifying for the same in November of the previous year . In combination he came to nine missions and six scorer points.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1988 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
  • 1989 Hockey East Second All-Star Team
  • 1990 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 1990 Hockey East All-Academic Team
  • 1990 NCAA East First All-American Team
  • 1991 Hockey East All-Academic Team
  • 1991 Hockey East First All-Star Team

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1987/88 Boston College Hockey East 30th 19th 16 35 30th
1988/89 Boston College Hockey East 36 20th 31 51 36
1989/90 Boston College Hockey East 42 38 34 72 46
1990/91 Boston College Hockey East 39 35 46 81 44
1991/92 USA hockey International 55 15th 16 31 32
1991/92 Utica Devils AHL 15th 4th 7th 11 12 4th 1 1 2 2
1992/93 Utica Devils AHL 61 21st 40 61 47 5 2 1 3 6th
1992/93 New Jersey Devils NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1993/94 Albany River Rats AHL 56 26th 29 55 53 5 1 2 3 8th
1993/94 New Jersey Devils NHL 15th 5 5 10 2 - - - - -
1994/95 Albany River Rats AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1994/95 New Jersey Devils NHL 6th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1995/96 Detroit Vipers IHL 79 30th 32 62 75 11 5 2 7th 2
1996/97 Providence Bruins AHL 53 10 18th 28 24 - - - - -
1996/97 Boston Bruins NHL 5 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1996/97 Phoenix Roadrunners IHL 8th 0 4th 4th 4th - - - - -
1997/98 EC KAC OIL 33 22nd 22nd 44 48 - - - - -
1997/98 EC KAC Alpine League 16 6th 17th 23 - - - - -
1998/99 EC KAC OIL 15th 8th 7th 15th 16 - - - - -
1998/99 EC KAC Alpine League 26th 15th 32 47 49 - - - - -
1999/00 EC KAC OIL 15th 9 6th 15th 18th - - - - -
1999/00 EC KAC Interliga 32 26th 28 54 28 - - - - -
2000/01 Louisville Panthers AHL 55 22nd 28 50 63 - - - - -
2000/01 Florida panthers NHL 6th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2000/01 Portland Pirates AHL 16 2 8th 10 6th 2 0 0 0 0
NCAA overall 147 112 127 239 156
AHL total 257 85 130 215 205 16 4th 4th 8th 16
IHL total 87 30th 36 66 79 11 5 2 7th 2
NHL overall 34 5 6th 11 2 - - - - -
Total oil 63 39 35 74 82 - - - - -
Alpine league overall 42 21st 49 70 - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1988 United States June World Cup 6th place 7th 0 0 0 2
1989 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 6th 2 8th 6th
1991 United States WM 4th Place 10 1 0 1 8th
1992 United States Olympia 4th Place 6th 0 1 1 6th
1998 United States World Cup qual 1st place 3 1 1 2 0
1999 United States WM 6th place 6th 1 3 4th 0
Juniors overall 14th 6th 2 8th 8th
Men overall 25th 3 5 8th 14th

( 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 Emma, ​​David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emma, ​​David Anaclethe (full name); Emma, ​​Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Cranston , Rhode Island