Gary Shuchuk

Gary Shuchuk
Date of birth	17th February 1967
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Supplemental Draft	1988 , 1st lap, 22nd position Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1986-1990	University of Wisconsin
1990-1993	Adirondack Red Wings
1993-1996	Los Angeles Kings
1996-1997	Houston Eros
1997-1998	SC Herisau
1998-1999	EC KAC
1999-2000	Orlando Solar Bears
2000-2001	Düsseldorfer EG
2001-2003	Krefeld penguins
2003-2004	Springfield Falcons

Gary Robert Shuchuk (* 17th February 1967 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach, who in his active period from 1986 to 2004, including for the Detroit Red Wings and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League has played .

Career

Gary Shuchuk began his career as a hockey player on the University of Wisconsin team , for which he was active from 1986 to 1990. During this period he was selected in the 1988 NHL Supplemental Draft as the 22nd player by the Detroit Red Wings , for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1990/91 season , where he had three scorer points in a total of nine games in his rookie year , including a goal, scored. The rest of the time in the Detroit Red Wings franchise he spent, however, with their farm team , the Adirondack Red Wings from the American Hockey League , with whom he won the Calder Cup in the 1991/92 season .

On January 29, 1993, Shuchuk was given to the Los Angeles Kings together with Jimmy Carson and Marc Potvin in exchange for Paul Coffey , Sylvain Couturier and Jim Hiller , with whom he reached the Stanley Cup finals at the end of the season , in which he and his team defeated the record winner Montréal Canadiens . After three more years in Los Angeles, the attacker played exclusively for the Houston Eros in the AHL in the 1996/97 season . The Canadian then went to Europe for the first time, where he received a contract in the Swiss National League A with newly promoted SC Herisau . He then spent a season at EC KAC from the Austrian Ice Hockey League , before returning to North America for the 1999/2000 season, where he played for the Orlando Solar Bears in the International Hockey League .

In the summer of 2000 Shuchuk was obliged by the Düsseldorfer EG , which had been promoted to the German ice hockey league in the previous season. After only one year, the former NHL player moved to their league rivals Krefeld Pinguine , with whom he was captain of the German championship in the 2002/03 season . He then signed with the AHL team Springfield Falcons , where he ended his career after a season as player-coach in 2004.

Achievements and Awards

• 1990 WCHA First All-Star Team
• 1990 WCHA Most Valuable Player
• 1990 NCAA West First All-American Team
• 1992 Calder Cup win with the Adirondack Red Wings
• 2003 German champion with the Krefeld penguins

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	5	142	13	26th	39	70
NHL playoffs	2	20th	2	2	4th	12
DEL main round	3	167	42	75	117	194
DEL playoffs	2	17th	1	5	6th	42

Web links

• Gary Shuchuk at hockeydb.com (English)
• Gary Shuchuk at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Gary Shuchuk at eurohockey.com