Eric Dazé
Date of birth | 2nd July 1975 |
place of birth | Montréal , Québec , Canada |
size | 198 cm |
Weight | 107 kg |
position | wing |
number | # 55 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1993 , 4th round, 90th position Chicago Blackhawks |
Career stations | |
1990-1992 | Laval Regents |
1992-1993 | Olympiques de Hull |
1993-1995 | Harfangs de Beauport |
1995-2005 | Chicago Blackhawks |
Éric Dazé (born July 2, 1975 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played a total of 638 games for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League between 1995 and 2005 .
Career
Dazé played during his junior years initially from 1990 to 1992 with the Laval Regents in the lower junior classes of the province of Québec , where he attracted attention early on with 45 points in 30 games and 77 points in 47 games. In the summer of 1992, the striker finally moved to the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , where the Olympiques de Hull signed him. In his rookie season he immediately belonged to the regular staff of the team, but after 55 games of the season in which he scored 32 points , he was transferred to league rivals Harfangs de Beauport . Beauport sent defense attorney Jamie Bird to Hull for this . In the Harfangs Dazé was able to increase significantly in the remaining 13 games of the season, as he reached another 23 points.
In June 1993, the winger was finally selected in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft . Despite his prolific point yields that put Scouts of the NHL - Franchises little confidence in those equipped with a height of 198 centimeters and 107 kilogram of body weight attacker because Dazé - although its good physical conditions - the physical play of power forward shied vehemently. The Chicago Blackhawks only selected him in the fourth round in 90th place. Although the selection was in the draft, Dazé remained in the LHJMQ at Beauport for two more years. Compared to his first season, he increased significantly and came in the 1993/94 season to 107 points in 66 games. He was the team's top scorer of the Harfangs and with 59 goals behind Yanick Dubé, the second top scorer in the league. His achievements were therefore rewarded with the election to the First All-Star Team of the LHJMQ and the Third All-Star Team of the Canadian Hockey League . In the following season he repeated the successes of the previous year. The striker was re-elected to both All-Star teams, was by far the top scorer of the Harfangs and second-best goalscorer in the entire league behind Alain Savage , although he missed part of the season because of the Junior World Cup in December 1994 and January 1995. In total, he got 99 points and 54 goals in 57 games. In addition, there were another 21 points in 16 games in the play-offs when Beauport failed in the semifinals for the Coupe du Président to Hull. Finally, he was awarded the Paul Dumont Trophy for LHJMQ Personality of the Year and the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the fairest athletic player of the LHJMQ season. The award of the Frank J. Selke Trophy enabled him to take part in the election for CHL Sportsman of the Year , in which he prevailed against the Russians Vitaly Jatschmenjow and Darren Ritchie . In addition, at the end of the year he received the Viscount Alexander Award for the best male junior athlete in the province of Québec, which had previously only received two other ice hockey players, Eric Lindros and Alexandre Daigle .
After the end of the LHJMQ season, the 19-year-old immediately switched to the professional camp and at the end of the 1994/95 season he made his first appearances in the National Hockey League. By the end of the regular season , he was in four games for the Blackhawks on the ice, in which he scored both his first goal in the third mission and prepared another. In the play-offs for the Stanley Cup , the winger played 16 games in the first three rounds of the knockout competition before Chicago was eliminated by the Detroit Red Wings . In the Windy City , the Canadian quickly became a fixture in the squad. In the first four years he only missed 23 of a possible 328 games in the regular season. In his first season as a newcomer to the league, Dazé set personal records with 30 goals, 23 assists and 53 points in 80 games, which enabled him to be appointed to the NHL All-Rookie Team for the 1995/96 season . In January 1996 he was named NHL Rookie of the Month . In the election for the Calder Memorial Trophy Dazé was defeated by the Swede Daniel Alfredsson , who had scored eight points more than he had and led this statistic among the league beginners. In the other three seasons up to the spring of 1999, the attacker always recorded more than 40 scorer points, in a team that missed the play-offs twice and was eliminated once in the first round.
In the 1999/2000 season Dazé played only 59 games due to injury and achieved only 36 points scorer, the worst value since joining the NHL. Only in the 2000/01 game year did the attacker return to his old form and improve his season high to 57 points, making him fourth-best scorer for the Blackhawks. He was able to improve again in the following season, before Chicago had extended his contract prematurely until the summer of 2004. He completed all the games for the first time in his NHL career and again set a new record with 70 points, which made him the team's top scorer and goalscorer at the same time. He was also nominated for the NHL All-Star Game in February 2002 in Los Angeles , where his two goals and one assist made him the most valuable player of the game.
From the 2002/03 season , the striker began to suffer for a long time. Even before the start of the season, Dazé underwent an operation on his back after a herniated disc , which made him late for the season. This was followed in the course of the season always less downtime due to back problems and when they recovered from rails, made the bar and infection at the ankle problems. He played only 54 games, in which he was able to show the point productivity of the previous year with 44 points. At the beginning of the 2003/04 season , Dazé made his back problems again due to another herniated disc. After 19 missions and eleven scorer points, he ended the season early in December because of another back operation, which was followed by a third in February 2004. Since the 2004/05 NHL season was completely canceled due to the lockout , Dazé used the time intensively to cure his back. The Blackhawks held on to their attacker despite ongoing injury concerns and had already tied him long-term in July 2004. In September 2005, the striker returned to Chicago and was part of the team's squad in the first game of the season 2005/06 on October 7, 2005. After the first third, however, the 30-year-old did not return to the ice and did not play another game during the season.
After a total of three operations within five years, Dazé declared - despite several attempts to make a comeback - on December 31, 2006 that he was currently no longer able to play games due to his back problems. But since he delayed his official resignation from active sport until March 20, 2010, he was officially considered an unrestricted free agent after the expiration of the contract in Chicago .
International
Dazé represented his home country Canada for the first time at the World Youth Championship in 1995 in the Canadian Red Deer in the province of Alberta . The Canadians - led by the quartet Marty Murray , Jason Allison , Bryan McCabe and Éric Dazé - won all seven games of the tournament and confidently secured the gold medal. Together with Murray and Allison, Dazé formed the tournament's best storm series, scoring 17 of the 49 Canadian goals. Dazé alone booked eight of them and thus shared the title of top scorer with the Russian Alexander Koroljuk . With two more assists and thus ten points, he finished fifth in the scorer ranking, but was only the fourth-best scorer of the Canadians. He was also elected to the tournament's all-star team.
Previously, Dazé had already represented the selection of the Province of Québec at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 1992 , where he had led the team to the silver medal after a final defeat against the Province of Ontario .
For the senior selection of the maple leaves , the striker played at the 1998 World Cup in Switzerland and the 1999 World Cup in Norway . In the 1998 world championships, after a successful preliminary round, the Canadians were eliminated in the intermediate round against the two later finalists from Finland and Sweden . Nevertheless, Dazé reached five scorer points in three missions, making him behind Ray Whitney , who played three games more, the second best Canadian player on points. The following year, when Canada was fourth after losing to the Czech Republic in the semifinals and Sweden in the game for third place, Dazé came to two missions. He was preparing a hit.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 1992 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
- 1995 gold medal at the Junior World Championship
- 1995 Top scorer of the Junior World Championship (together with Alexander Koroljuk )
- 1995 All-Star-Team of the Junior World Championship
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1990/91 | Laval Regents | QAHA | 30th | 25th | 20th | 45 | 30th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1991/92 | Laval Regents | QAAA | 35 | 30th | 29 | 59 | 40 | 12 | 8th | 10 | 18th | 8th | ||
1992/93 | Olympiques de Hull | LHJMQ | 55 | 13 | 19th | 32 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1992/93 | Harfangs de Beauport | LHJMQ | 13 | 6th | 17th | 23 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1993/94 | Harfangs de Beauport | LHJMQ | 66 | 59 | 48 | 107 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | Harfangs de Beauport | LHJMQ | 57 | 54 | 45 | 99 | 20th | 16 | 9 | 12 | 21st | 23 | ||
1994/95 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||
1995/96 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 80 | 30th | 23 | 53 | 18th | 10 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 3 | ||
1996/97 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 71 | 22nd | 19th | 41 | 16 | 6th | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
1997/98 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 80 | 31 | 11 | 42 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1998/99 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 72 | 22nd | 20th | 42 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 59 | 23 | 13 | 36 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2000/01 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 79 | 33 | 24 | 57 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 82 | 38 | 32 | 70 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
2002/03 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 54 | 22nd | 22nd | 44 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 19th | 4th | 7th | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2004/05 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | not played because of lockout | |||||||||||
2005/06 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
LHJMQ total | 191 | 132 | 129 | 261 | 75 | 31 | 25th | 20th | 45 | 4th | ||||
NHL overall | 601 | 226 | 172 | 398 | 176 | 37 | 5 | 7th | 12 | 8th |
International
Represented Canada to:
- World U-17 Hockey Challenge 1992
- Junior World Championship 1995
- World Championship 1998
- World Championship 1999
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1992 | Canada Québec | U17-WHC | |||||||
1995 | Canada | June World Cup | 7th | 8th | 2 | 10 | 0 | ||
1998 | Canada | WM | 6th place | 3 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 0 | |
1999 | Canada | WM | 4th Place | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Juniors overall | 7th | 8th | 2 | 10 | 0 | ||||
Men overall | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 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
- Éric Dazé at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Éric Dazé at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Éric Dazé at hockeydb.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gatineau Olympiques - History. Olympiques de Gatineau , accessed January 19, 2012 .
- ^ Viscount Alexander Award - Outstanding Junior Male Athlete. slam.ca, accessed on January 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Michael DiFranco: What Happened to Eric Daze? thehockeywriters.com, March 13, 2009, accessed January 19, 2012 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dazé, Eric |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dazé, Eric; Daze, Eric |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Montréal , Québec |