Dennis Bonvie

Dennis Bonvie
Date of birth	23rd July 1973
place of birth	Frankville , Nova Scotia , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1989-1991	Antigonish Bulldogs
1991	Kitchener Rangers
1991-1993	North Bay Centennials
1993-1996	Cape Breton Oilers
1996-1998	Hamilton Bulldogs
1998-1999	Chicago Blackhawks
1999	Philadelphia Phantoms
1999-2001	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2001-2002	Boston Bruins Providence Bruins
2002-2004	Binghamton Senators
2004-2005	Hershey Bears
2005-2008	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

Dennis Kevin Bonvie (born July 23, 1973 in Frankville , Nova Scotia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current scout , who played 93 games for the Edmonton Oilers , Chicago Blackhawks , Pittsburgh Penguins , Boston Bruins , Ottawa Senators and Colorado Avalanche played in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . Bonvie, who embodied the player type of the Enforcer , spent most of his career in the American Hockey League , where he played 977 games for eight different teams. With 4493 penalty minutes received - in 871 games of the regular season alone  - he is the undisputed record holder in these statistics.

Career

Bonvie first spent his junior years from 1989 to 1991 in his home province of Nova Scotia with the Antigonish Bulldogs in the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League . After the striker proved to be a profitable scorer in his first season with the team with 45 points and only 52 penalty minutes in 50 missions, he retrained to become an enforcer in the next season . In 40 encounters, he scored only nine times, but received 347 penalty minutes. For the 1991/92 season Bonvie left the Bulldogs and moved to the higher class junior league Ontario Hockey League , where he was on the ice at the beginning of the season for the Kitchener Rangers . These found little use for the Enforcer's abilities and transferred him to league rivals North Bay Centennials after seven missions . Bonvie spent almost two years with the Centennials until the end of his junior career in the spring of 1993.

For the season 1993/94 Bonvie moved to the professional field when the undrafted free agent was signed by the Cape Breton Oilers from the American Hockey League . There he was able to convince the officials of the partner club Edmonton Oilers from the National Hockey League so that he was offered a contract Edmonton valid for the NHL in August 1994. Due to the lockout and the late start of the 1994/95 NHL season , it was not until April 1995 that he played his first of two games for the Edmonton Oilers that season. In the AHL, where he spent most of the 1995/96 playing year , he was invited to the AHL All-Star Classic in 1995 - the only individual award in his career.

After two years of playing sporadically in the NHL, the attacker spent the entire 1996/97 season with Edmonton's new farm team , the Hamilton Bulldogs . With 522 penalty minutes in the course of the season, he set a new record for the league, which was only broken in the 2004/05 game year by Brian McGrattan with 551 minutes. In the following season he played again mainly in Hamilton, but received in contrast to the previous year also minutes again with the Oilers in the NHL. In October 1998, the Canadian's engagement in Edmonton ended when he was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL Waiver Draft . In Chicago Bonvie seemed to establish himself in the NHL, since he played with eleven games between October 1998 and January 1999, almost as many as in the four years in Edmonton. However, he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in early January 1999 in exchange for Frank Bialowas . The Flyers used it exclusively in the AHL with their cooperation partner, the Philadelphia Phantoms , until the end of the season .

Since the Flyers did not extend the expiring contract beyond the 1998/99 season, the winger was signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins in September 1999 . In the franchise he spent a total of two seasons and was mostly to be found in the squad of the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins . Nevertheless, he was in Pittsburgh 31 times in the NHL. He also reached the final series of the Calder Cup with Wilkes-Barre / Scranton , which was lost to the Saint John Flames . From the 2001/02 season , the Ottawa Senators followed as his new employer, who had also signed him as a free agent. But even there Bonvie did not find a sporting home in the NHL. With the exception of twelve missions for the Canadian capital club, he played until January 2004, when he was transferred to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Charlie Stephens , exclusively for the Binghamton Senators in the AHL. The switch to the Avalanche did not change anything in this regard. In March 2004 he completed his only one for the team and the last ever in the NHL. Otherwise he was  only active for the AHL team of the Hershey Bears until summer 2005 - also due to the complete failure of the nHL season 2004/05 .

For the 2005/06 season Bonvie finally returned to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins. There, the now 32-year-old let his career end in the following three seasons. In his last season as an active player, he reached the Calder Cup final again in the 2007/08 season . He then ended his active career in which he spent a total of 5123 minutes in the penalty box in the professional field. His 4804 minutes - accumulated in the regular season of the NHL and AHL alone - represent an absolute record in the professional field. Of these, he received 4493 minutes in the AHL, which makes him the undisputed leader in this statistic. The next Rob Murray has with 2940 minutes over 1500 less than Bonvie.

Immediately after the end of his career, Bonvie was hired by the Toronto Maple Leafs as a scout . He worked there for a year before his ex-team Chicago Blackhawks secured his services in this position. He worked in Chicago for six seasons. For the 2015/16 season he was poached by the Boston Bruins, for whom he has served as a scout ever since.

Achievements and Awards

• 1995 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1989/90	Antigonish Bulldogs	NSJHL		50	15th	30th	45	52		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Antigonish Bulldogs	NSJHL		40	1	8th	9	347		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		7th	1	1	2	23		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	North Bay Centennials	OHL		49	0	12	12	261		21st	0	1	1	91
1992/93	North Bay Centennials	OHL		64	3	21st	24	316		5	0	0	0	34
1993/94	Cape Breton Oilers	AHL		63	1	10	11	278		4th	0	0	0	11
1994/95	Cape Breton Oilers	AHL		74	5	15th	20th	422		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Cape Breton Oilers	AHL		38	13	14th	27	269		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		8th	0	0	0	47		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		73	9	20th	29	522		22nd	3	11	14th	91
1997/98	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		57	11	19th	30th	295		9	0	5	5	18th
1997/98	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		4th	0	0	0	27		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Portland Pirates	AHL		3	1	0	1	16		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		11	0	0	0	44		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		37	4th	10	14th	158		14th	3	3	6th	26th
1999/00	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		42	5	26th	31	243		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		28	0	0	0	80		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		65	5	18th	23	221		21st	0	4th	4th	35
2000/01	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Providence Bruins	AHL		55	8th	8th	16	290		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Boston Bruins	NHL		23	1	2	3	84		1	0	0	0	0
2002/03	Ottawa Senators	NHL		12	0	0	0	29		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Binghamton Senators	AHL		51	7th	3	10	311		14th	2	4th	6th	85
2003/04	Binghamton Senators	AHL		29	2	4th	6th	137		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Hershey Bears	AHL		30th	3	6th	9	154		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Hershey Bears	AHL		76	4th	14th	18th	357		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		70	2	13	15th	431		9	0	0	0	29
2006/07	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		58	2	7th	9	186		4th	0	1	1	7th
2007/08	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		50	2	4th	6th	203		9	1	0	1	17th
NSJHL total				90	16	38	54	399		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				120	4th	34	38	600		26th	0	1	1	125
AHL total				871	84	191	275	4493		106	9	28	37	319
NHL overall				92	1	2	3	311		1	0	0	0	0

( 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

• Dennis Bonvie at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Dennis Bonvie at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Pro hockey PIM leader Dennis Bonvie starts new career as Maple Leafs scout. In: nhl.com . The Canadian Press , October 29, 2008, accessed February 8, 2019 .