David Laliberté

David Laliberté
Date of birth	March 17, 1986
place of birth	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Québec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 4th round, 124th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2002-2003	Rocket de Montréal
2003-2007	PEI Rocket
2007-2009	Philadelphia Phantoms
2009-2010	Adirondack Phantoms
2010-2011	Syracuse crunch
2011	Providence Bruins
2011–2012	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2013	Adirondack Phantoms
2014	HC Bolzano
2014-2015	Lørenskog IK
2015-2016	HK Nitra

David Laliberté (born March 17, 1986 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who was mainly active in the North American minor leagues and for various clubs in Europe.

Career

David Laliberté began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , in which he was active from 2002 to 2007 for Rocket de Montréal and PEI Rocket . During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the fourth round as a total of 124th player by the Philadelphia Flyers . After the winger for the first two years of minor league - farm teams , the Philadelphia Phantoms in the American Hockey League and Wheeling Nailers in the ECHL had stood on the ice, he gave during the 2009/10 season, his debut in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers. As before, however, he also competed in the AHL for their new farm team, the Adirondack Phantoms . On November 21, 2010 he was transferred to the Anaheim Ducks together with Patrick Maroon for Rob Bordson and Danny Syvret . This then sent him to the Syracuse Crunch in the AHL.

In Syracuse Laliberté was set as a regular player before he was given to the Boston Bruins shortly before the trade deadline on February 27, 2011 together with Stefan Chaput in exchange for Brian McGrattan and Sean Zimmerman , who made him part of the farm team with the Providence Bruins in the AHL sent. In July 2011 the striker was signed by the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg from the German Ice Hockey League and given a contract for one season. In March 2012, Laliberté tore a cruciate ligament while training, so his contract was not extended after the end of the season.

After recovering from the injury, Laliberté was active with the Trenton Titans from the ECHL around the turn of the year 2012/13 , before the Adirondack Phantoms signed him in January 2013. In autumn 2013 he was again without a club before he returned to Europe in January 2014 and played a total of ten games for HC Meran from the Inter-National League . After Matthieu Beaudoin was injured, HC Bozen decided to sign David Laliberté until the end of the season. With his new team he won the EBEL championship title . In the 2014/15 season, the Canadian played for Lørenskog IK , where his contract was not renewed after the season. He was then a year and a half at HK Nitra in the Slovak Extra League under contract. With Nitra he won the Slovak championship in 2016 before ending his career in November 2016.

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2014 EBEL winner with HC Bozen
• 2016 Slovak champion with HK Nitra
• 2016 top scorer and best assists in the Extraliga

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Montreal Rocket	LHJMQ		66	15th	14th	29	10		6th	3	0	3	2
2003/04	PEI Rocket	LHJMQ		70	21st	22nd	43	51		11	1	3	4th	6th
2004/05	PEI Rocket	LHJMQ		41	23	13	36	36		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	PEI Rocket	LHJMQ		34	12	11	23	41		6th	3	1	4th	6th
2006/07	PEI Rocket	LHJMQ		68	50	48	98	86		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		27	3	6th	9	13		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Wheeling Nailers	ECHL		27	10	14th	24	16		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		78	28	20th	48	43		4th	0	1	1	4th
2009/10	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		66	18th	28	46	39		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		11	2	1	3	6th		1	0	0	0	2
2010/11	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		19th	3	6th	9	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Syracuse crunch	AHL		30th	5	4th	9	32		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Providence Bruins	AHL		17th	1	5	6th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		50	20th	10	30th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Trenton Titans	ECHL		5	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		21st	3	8th	11	13		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Gwinnett Gladiators	ECHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HC Merano	INL		9	9	6th	15th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HC Bolzano	EBEL		4th	0	1	1	0		13	4th	6th	10	6th
2014/15	Lørenskog IK	GET leagues		26th	13	8th	21st	39		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				11	2	1	3	6th		1	0	0	0	2
AHL total				250	61	77	138	174		4th	0	1	1	4th

( 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

• David Laliberté at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philadelphia Flyers: Flyers acquire Syvret, Bordson from Ducks
2. ↑ ehc-wolfsburg.de, personnel decisions at the Grizzly Adams
3. ↑ eishockey-24.de, EBEL: David Laliberté changes from Meran to HC Bozen ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 23, 2014 
4. ↑ David Laliberté zo zdravotných dôvodov končí s hokejovou kariérou. In: hockeynitra.com. November 27, 2016, accessed July 3, 2018 .