Gary Suter

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United StatesUnited States  Gary Suter Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 24, 1964
place of birth Madison , Wisconsin , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1984 , 9th lap, 180th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
1981-1983 Dubuque Fighting Saints
1983-1985 University of Wisconsin – Madison
1985-1994 Calgary Flames
1994-1998 Chicago Blackhawks
1998-2002 San Jose Sharks

Gary Lee Suter (born June 24, 1964 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is a retired American ice hockey player . The defender played over 1200 games for the Calgary Flames , Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League between 1985 and 2002 . In the "Flames" jersey, he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy and in 1989 he won the Stanley Cup . With the USA national team , Suter won the gold medal at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics .

Career

Suter played during his junior years between 1981 and 1983 with the Dubuque Fighting Saints in the United States Hockey League , before he went from 1983 for two seasons for the team of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the ice. In the 1984 NHL Entry Draft , he had to wait until the ninth round, where the Calgary Flames selected him from the National Hockey League as 180th. He stayed at the university for another year and played for the United States in the 1984 Junior World Championship before moving to the National Hockey League in Calgary.

In his first professional season he collected 68 points as a defender, which earned him the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie . In his third season, 1987/88 , he achieved 70 assists with 91 points, the highest value of his career. At the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1989 , he won the Stanley Cup with the Flames . In 1994 the Flames handed him over to the Hartford Whalers , but Hartford went on to the Chicago Blackhawks the next day without having played a game .

Suter stayed in Chicago for four and a half years before he was replaced there by Paul Coffey because he was injured. In San Jose it had been registered that Suter was available and brought him for the 1998/99 season , in which he played only one game. He came back on the ice the following season and was a great defender of the Sharks until 2002. He crowned his career by winning a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In 2011 he was honored with induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL records

  • 6 assists in one game as defender (April 4, 1986; together with 5 other players )
  • 6 assists in one game as a defender in his first season (April 4, 1986)

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1981/82 Dubuque Fighting Saints USHL 18th 3 4th 7th 32
1982/83 Dubuque Fighting Saints USHL 41 9 30th 39 112
1983/84 University of Wisconsin – Madison WCHA 35 4th 18th 22nd 32
1984/85 University of Wisconsin-Madison WCHA 39 12 39 51 110
1985/86 Calgary Flames NHL 80 18th 50 68 141 10 2 8th 10 8th
1986/87 Calgary Flames NHL 68 9 40 49 48 6th 0 3 3 10
1987/88 Calgary Flames NHL 75 21st 70 91 124 9 1 9 10 6th
1988/89 Calgary Flames NHL 63 13 49 62 78 5 0 3 3 10
1989/90 Calgary Flames NHL 76 16 60 76 97 6th 0 1 1 14th
1990/91 Calgary Flames NHL 79 12 58 70 102 7th 1 6th 7th 12
1991/92 Calgary Flames NHL 70 12 43 55 128 - - - - -
1992/93 Calgary Flames NHL 81 23 58 81 112 6th 2 3 5 8th
1993/94 Calgary Flames NHL 25th 4th 9 13 20th - - - - -
1993/94 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 16 2 3 5 18th 6th 3 2 5 6th
1994/95 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 48 10 27 37 42 12 2 5 7th 10
1995/96 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 20th 47 67 80 10 3 3 6th 8th
1996/97 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 7th 21st 28 70 6th 1 4th 5 8th
1997/98 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 73 14th 28 42 74 - - - - -
1998/99 San Jose Sharks NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1999/00 San Jose Sharks NHL 76 6th 28 34 52 12 2 5 7th 12
2000/01 San Jose Sharks NHL 68 10 24 34 84 1 0 0 0 0
2001/02 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 6th 27 33 57 12 0 4th 4th 8th
USHL total 59 12 34 46 144
NCAA overall 74 16 57 73 142
NHL overall 1145 203 642 845 1327 108 17th 56 73 120

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1984 United States June World Cup 6th place 7th 1 1 2 12
1985 United States WM 4th Place 10 1 2 3 22nd
1987 United States Canada Cup 5th place 5 0 3 3 9
1991 United States Canada Cup 2nd place 8th 1 3 4th 4th
1992 United States WM 7th place 6th 0 1 1 6th
1996 United States World cup 1st place, gold 6th 0 2 2 6th
1998 United States Olympia 6th place 4th 0 0 0 2
2002 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 0 1 1 2
Juniors overall 7th 1 1 2 12
Men overall 45 2 12 14th 51

( 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 )

family

His brother Bob Suter won the gold medal at the Miracle on Ice with Team USA , and his son Ryan Suter also established himself as a defender in the NHL. His son Jake Suter and his nephews Garrett Suter and Jeremy Dehner also made it into professional ice hockey.

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personal data
SURNAME Suter, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suter, Gary Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison , ( Wisconsin )