Derek King

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CanadaCanada  Derek King Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 11, 1967
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 1st lap, 13th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1984-1986 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1986-1987 Oshawa Generals
1987-1997 New York Islanders
1997 Hartford Whalers
1997-1999 Toronto Maple Leafs
1999 St. Louis Blues
1999-2001 Grand Rapids Griffins
2001-2002 Munich Barons
2002-2004 Grand Rapids Griffins

Derek King (born February 11, 1967 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . The left winger played over 800 games in the National Hockey League between 1987 and 1999 , most of them for the New York Islanders . He then ended his active career with the Grand Rapids Griffins and the Munich Barons before starting his coaching career, where he has been head coach of the Rockford IceHogs from the American Hockey League since April 2019 .

Career

As a player

youth

Derek King played for the Hamilton Mountain A’s in his hometown in his youth before he was 25th in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds was selected. In his first OHL season, the winger scored 73 points in 63 games for the greyhounds, so that he was honored with the Emms Family Award as the best rookie in the league. He also won the playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the team and was then considered in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft in 13th position by the New York Islanders . In the course of the following season, however, there was a falling out with the coach of the Greyhounds, so that King was given in February 1986 in exchange for Mark Haarman and Hal Turner within the league to the Oshawa Generals . With the generals he celebrated another OHL championship in 1987 and was only defeated in the final of the following Memorial Cup to the Medicine Hat Tigers , while at the same time he was appointed to the OHL First All-Star Team .

New York Islanders

In March 1987, King made his debut for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League (NHL) and established himself there as a regular scorer, but he the next three years between New York and the farm team leveled the Islanders, the Springfield Indians from of the American Hockey League (AHL). The attacker made his breakthrough in the NHL in the 1991/92 season, when he reached the 40 goal mark, which Isles led (together with Ray Ferraro ) and also set his career record with 78 points. He was able to maintain this offensive production for two years, in which the team reached the conference final in the 1993 playoffs and failed there at the later Stanley Cup winner from Montréal . Beginning with the 1994/95 season, his performance decreased, among other things due to injuries, so that he was given in March 1997 in exchange for a five-round right to vote in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft to the Hartford Whalers . The Canadian left the Islanders after ten years and was at that point among the ten players with the most games, goals, assists and scorer points in the history of the franchise .

Constant changes and end of career

With the Hartford Whalers, King ended the season and then received no further contract, so he joined the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent in July 1997 . In the 1999 playoffs he reached the conference finals again, but lost to the Buffalo Sabers . In October 1999, the Maple Leafs transferred him to the St. Louis Blues and received Tyler Harlton in return , with King only running for the Blues until the end of the calendar year and then withdrawing from the NHL. He moved to the Grand Rapids Griffins in the International Hockey League (IHL), with whom he failed at the end of the season in the playoff finals for the Turner Cup to the Chicago Wolves . In the following 2000/01 season, the attacker led the IHL in scorer points (83; together with Steve Larouche ), so that he was awarded the Leo P. Lamoureux Memorial Trophy and was elected to the IHL Second All-Star Team .

King then spent a season with the Munich Barons in the German Ice Hockey League before returning to the Griffins at Grand Rapids and spending two more seasons in the AHL, to which the team had meanwhile switched. In 2004, the left winger ended his active career in which he had completed a total of 877 NHL games and scored 633 points scorer.

International

At the international level, King took part with the Canadian national team in the 1992 World Cup and finished eighth with the team.

As a trainer

During his last two active seasons with the Griffins, King gained his first experience as an assistant to the coaching team. After a hiatus of five years, he was hired by the Toronto Marlies from the AHL as assistant coach for the 2009/10 season and held this position until the end of the 2014/15 season. He then returned to the OHL for a year as an assistant coach at the Owen Sound Attack , before he was hired in the same role by the Rockford IceHogs from the AHL for the 2016/17 season . Between November 6, 2018 and the end of the 2018/19 season, he acted as interim trainer for the IceHogs, before becoming the official head coach on April 25, 2019.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1984/85 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 63 35 38 73 106 16 3 13 16 11
1985 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds Memorial Cup - - - - - - 4th 2 2 4th 8th
1985/86 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 25th 12 17th 29 33 - - - - - -
1985/86 Oshawa Generals OHL 19th 8th 13 21st 15th 6th 3 2 5 13
1986/87 Oshawa Generals OHL 57 53 53 106 74 17th 14th 10 24 40
1987 Oshawa Generals Memorial Cup - - - - - - 4th 0 3 3 7th
1986/87 New York Islanders NHL 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
1987/88 Springfield Indians AHL 10 7th 6th 13 6th - - - - - -
1987/88 New York Islanders NHL 55 12 24 36 +7 30th 5 0 2 2 +2 2
1988/89 Springfield Indians AHL 4th 4th 0 4th 0 - - - - - -
1988/89 New York Islanders NHL 60 14th 29 43 +10 14th - - - - - -
1989/90 Springfield Indians AHL 21st 11 12 23 33 - - - - - -
1989/90 New York Islanders NHL 46 13 27 40 +2 20th 4th 0 0 0 -3 4th
1990/91 New York Islanders NHL 66 19th 26th 45 +1 44 - - - - - -
1991/92 New York Islanders NHL 80 40 38 78 -10 46 - - - - - -
1992/93 New York Islanders NHL 77 38 38 76 -4 47 18th 3 11 14th +3 14th
1993/94 New York Islanders NHL 78 30th 40 70 +18 59 4th 0 1 1 -3 0
1994/95 New York Islanders NHL 43 10 16 26th -5 41 - - - - - -
1995/96 New York Islanders NHL 61 12 20th 32 -10 23 - - - - - -
1996/97 New York Islanders NHL 70 23 30th 53 –6 20th - - - - - -
1996/97 Hartford Whalers NHL 12 3 3 6th ± 0 2 - - - - - -
1997/98 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 77 21st 25th 46 –7 43 - - - - - -
1998/99 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 81 24 28 52 +15 20th 16 1 3 4th ± 0 4th
1999/00 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 3 0 0 0 -2 2 - - - - - -
1999/00 St. Louis Blues NHL 19th 2 7th 9 ± 0 6th - - - - - -
1999/00 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 52 19th 30th 49 +20 25th 17th 7th 8th 15th -4 8th
2000/01 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 76 32 51 83 +38 19th 10 5 5 10 +2 4th
2001/02 Munich Barons DEL 60 19th 26th 45 +9 22nd 9 2 4th 6th -2 4th
2002/03 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 59 13 28 41 +14 20th 15th 4th 10 14th +6 6th
2003/04 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 77 9 21st 30th -1 19th 4th 0 2 2 -1 0
OHL total 164 108 121 229 228 39 20th 25th 45 64
Memorial Cup overall - - - - - - 8th 2 5 7th 15th
AHL total 171 44 67 111 78 19th 4th 12 16 6th
IHL total 128 51 81 132 +58 44 27 12 13 25th -2 12
NHL overall 830 261 351 612 +9 417 47 4th 17th 21st -1 24

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1992 Canada WM 8th place 6th 1 1 2 6th
Men overall 6th 1 1 2 6th

( 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. ↑ King added to IceHogs coaching staff. theahl.com, July 7, 2016, accessed March 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME King, Derek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario , Canada