James Patrick

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CanadaCanada  James Patrick Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 14, 1963
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 1st lap, 9th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1980-1981 Prince Albert Raiders
1981-1983 University of North Dakota
1983-1993 New York Rangers
1993-1994 Hartford Whalers
1994-1998 Calgary Flames
1998-2004 Buffalo Sabers
2005-2006 Frankfurt Lions

James Alan Patrick (born June 14, 1963 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active career from 1980 to 2006, the defender completed over 1,300 games for the New York Rangers , Hartford Whalers , Calgary Flames and Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League . With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the Canada Cup in 1987 and a silver and bronze medal at world championships.

After the end of his active career, Patrick worked for the Buffalo Sabers (2006-2013) and the Dallas Stars (2013-2017) as an assistant coach. Since June 2017 he has been the head coach of the Kootenay and Winnipeg Ice from the Western Hockey League .

Career

James Patrick played during his junior years for the Prince Albert Raiders in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League with Dave Tippett , where they won the Manitoba Centennial Trophy with the team in 1981 . From there, both moved to the University of North Dakota , with their ice hockey team, the Fighting Sioux, they won the title of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1982 . In addition to them, Troy Murray , Craig Ludwig , Gord Sherven and Darren Jensen were a few other future NHL players in the roster. In the same year, the defender won his country's first gold medal in this age group with the Canadian U20 national team at the 1982 World Junior Championship . Even before the time at the university had the New York Rangers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft secured the rights to him. They picked him in ninth position on the first lap.

He spent the 1983/84 season with the Canadian national ice hockey team and prepared for the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . The team just missed the bronze medal with fourth place.

Immediately after the Olympics, he joined the New York Rangers squad and played twelve more games for the Rangers. In his eleven seasons with the Rangers, he developed into one of the most solid defenders in the NHL. In 1987 he represented his home country Canada at both the Canada Cup and the World Cup . Between 1984 and 1986 his brother Steve was also in the Rangers roster.

In November 1993 he joined the Hartford Whalers with Darren Turcotte , who in return sent Steve Larmer to New York, among others . So he also missed winning the Stanley Cup , which the Rangers managed at the end of the season. As early as the 1994/95 season , he changed teams again. For Michael Nylander , Zarley Zalapski and him, the Calgary Flames sent three players, including Gary Suter , to Hartford. He stayed with the Flames for five years, from which he had to largely pause the 1996/97 season after a serious knee injury. For the 1998/99 season , Patrick moved to the Buffalo Sabers as a free agent . After six seasons in Buffalo, he announced his retirement from active sport on September 8, 2005 and moved to the Sabers coaching staff.

Soon afterwards, however, Patrick decided to return to the ice and moved to Germany to the Frankfurt Lions for the 2005/06 season . After a year in the German Ice Hockey League , he returned to the Buffalo Sabers as an assistant coach. He held this position until the end of the 2012/13 season. He then moved as an assistant to the Dallas Stars , where he worked again under head coach Lindy Ruff , with whom he had already worked in Buffalo. After four years in Dallas, both were fired at the end of the 2016-17 season. He was then introduced as the new head coach of the Kootenay Ice from the Western Hockey League . He kept this position when the team moved to Winnipeg, where it has operated as Winnipeg Ice ever since .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1980/81 Prince Albert Raiders SJHL 59 21st 61 82 162 - - - - - -
1981/82 University of North Dakota NCAA 42 5 24 29 26th
1982/83 University of North Dakota NCAA 36 12 36 48 29
1983/84 New York Rangers NHL 12 1 7th 8th +6 2 5 0 3 3 ± 0 2
1984/85 New York Rangers NHL 75 8th 28 36 -17 71 3 0 0 0 ± 0 4th
1985/86 New York Rangers NHL 75 14th 29 43 +14 88 16 1 5 6th +1 34
1986/87 New York Rangers NHL 78 10 45 55 +13 62 6th 1 2 3 -5 2
1987/88 New York Rangers NHL 70 17th 45 62 +16 52 - - - - - -
1988/89 New York Rangers NHL 68 11 36 47 +3 41 4th 0 1 1 -1 2
1989/90 New York Rangers NHL 73 14th 43 57 +4 50 10 3 8th 11 -2 ± 0
1990/91 New York Rangers NHL 74 10 49 59 -5 58 6th 0 0 0 -1 6th
1991/92 New York Rangers NHL 80 14th 57 71 +34 54 13 0 7th 7th -4 12
1992/93 New York Rangers NHL 60 5 21st 26th +1 61 - - - - - -
1993/94 New York Rangers NHL 6th 0 3 3 +1 2 - - - - - -
1993/94 Hartford Whalers NHL 47 8th 20th 28 -12 32 - - - - - -
1993/94 Calgary Flames NHL 15th 2 2 4th +6 6th 7th 0 1 1 -1 6th
1994/95 Calgary Flames NHL 43 0 10 10 -3 14th 5 0 1 1 -2 0
1995/96 Calgary Flames NHL 80 3 32 35 +3 30th 4th 0 0 0 -3 2
1996/97 Calgary Flames NHL 19th 3 1 4th +2 6th - - - - - -
1997/98 Calgary Flames NHL 60 6th 11 17th -2 26th - - - - - -
1998/99 Buffalo Sabers NHL 45 1 7th 8th +12 16 20th 0 1 1 +6 12
1999/00 Buffalo Sabers NHL 66 5 8th 13 +8 22nd 5 0 1 1 +1 2
2000/01 Buffalo Sabers NHL 54 4th 9 13 +9 12 13 1 2 3 ± 0 2
2001/02 Buffalo Sabers NHL 56 5 8th 13 +3 16 - - - - - -
2002/03 Buffalo Sabers NHL 69 4th 12 16 -3 26th - - - - - -
2003/04 Buffalo Sabers NHL 55 4th 7th 11 +11 12 - - - - - -
2005/06 Frankfurt Lions DEL 42 1 6th 7th +1 73 - - - - - -
NCAA overall 78 17th 60 77 55
NHL overall 1280 149 490 639 +104 759 117 6th 32 38 –11 86

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1982 Canada Junior World Championship gold medal 7th 0 2 2 6th
1983 Canada Junior World Championship Bronze medal 7th 0 2 2 4th
1983 Canada WM Bronze medal 9 1 1 2 10
1984 Canada Olympia 4th Place 7th 0 3 3 4th
1987 Canada WM 4th Place 8th 0 1 1 2
1987 Canada Canada Cup gold medal 6th 0 1 1 +1 2
1989 Canada WM Silver medal 10 2 2 4th 8th
1998 Canada WM 6th place 6th 0 1 1 0
2002 Canada WM 6th place 7th 0 2 2 ± 0 0
Juniors overall 14th 0 4th 4th 10
Men overall 53 3 11 14th 26th

( 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 older brother Steve Patrick was and his son Nolan Patrick is also a professional ice hockey player. Her father Stephen Patrick played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League and later was a member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly .

However , he is not related to the "Patrick" family around Lester , Lynn and Craig Patrick , also known from the NHL .

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personal data
SURNAME Patrick, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patrick, James Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada