Jeff Daniels (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Jeff Daniels Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 24, 1968
place of birth Oshawa , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1986 , 6th lap, 109th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1983-1984 Oshawa Legionnaires
1984-1988 Oshawa Generals
1988-1994 Pittsburgh Penguins
Muskegon Lumberjacks
1994-1995 Florida Panthers
Detroit Vipers
1995-1997 Springfield Falcons
1997-1998 Beast of New Haven
1998-1999 Milwaukee Admirals
1999-2003 Carolina Hurricanes

Jeffrey Dwayne "Jeff" Daniels (born June 24, 1968 in Oshawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach and scout , who played 466 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Florida between 1984 and 2003 Panthers , Hartford Whalers , Nashville Predators and Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . After his active career ended, Daniels stayed in the Carolina Hurricanes franchise and worked there as a trainer, official and scout since 2003. In the service of the Pittsburgh Penguins, he won the Stanley Cup in 1992 , as well as assistant coach in 2006 with Carolina.

Career

Daniels spent his junior years in his hometown of Oshawa , where he was initially active for the Oshawa Legionnaires, and from 1984 on, he finally ran for the Oshawa Generals from the Ontario Hockey League . The winger played there until the summer of 1988, during which time he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the team. The subsequent participation in the Memorial Cup ended in a final defeat against the Medicine Hat Tigers .

After Daniels had already been selected in the sixth round in the sixth round in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins from the National Hockey League , he was committed to the 1988/89 season by the Penguins. However, until 1992 they mainly used him in their farm team , the Muskegon Lumberjacks , in the International Hockey League . Nevertheless, Daniels was part of the squad that won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1992 . It was not until the beginning of the 1992/93 season that he was a full member of the NHL squad. After the Canadian had also accrued for the Pens in the 1993/94 season , he was transferred to the Florida Panthers in March 1994 in exchange for Greg Hawgood . Due to the lockout in the 1994/95 NHL season , Daniels only made ten appearances for the Panthers before joining the Hartford Whalers as a free agent in the summer of 1995 .

There he spent the 1995/96 season completely in the farm team Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League and in the following game year it was enough to only ten more NHL appearances in Hartford's jersey. When the Whalers moved to the state of North Carolina , the attacker belonged to the Carolina Hurricanes at the beginning of the 1997/98 season , where he was also used in the farm team and was only on the ice for Carolina twice. In the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft , Daniels remained unprotected by his team and was selected by the newly formed Nashville Predators . There, however, he did not succeed in permanently returning to the NHL. It was only when he switched back to Carolina in the summer of 1999 that the striker established himself in the North American league for the first time in six years. He spent four seasons with the Hurricanes up to the summer of 2003 - crowned by his participation in the Stanley Cup final in 2002 . Despite a contract extension in April 2003, Daniels finally retired from his active career in November 2003 at the age of 35 due to an injury.

CanadaCanada  Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels
Coaching stations
2003-2008 Carolina Hurricanes (Assistant Coach)
2008-2010 Albany River Rats
2010-2015 Charlotte Checkers
since 2018 Carolina Hurricanes (Assistant Coach)

However, Daniels remained loyal to the franchise and was taken over to the Carolinas coaching staff after his early career. There he worked under Peter Laviolette as an assistant coach until summer 2008 and won his second Stanley Cup with the team in 2006 . For the 2008-09 season , Daniels was promoted to head coach and general manager of the Albany River Rats , which were Carolina's farm team in the AHL. He looked after the team for two years before it moved and from then on continued to play games under the name Charlotte Checkers . In the first five years of the Checkers' existence, Daniels continued to fill the positions of coach and GM in personal union. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , he returned to the Hurricanes as a scout and was also appointed Director of Professional Scouting in 2017 , before taking on again as assistant to the new head coach Rod Brind'Amour for the 2018/19 season .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Oshawa Generals OHL 59 7th 11 18th 16 5 0 0 0 0
1985/86 Oshawa Generals OHL 62 13 19th 32 23 - - - - -
1986/87 Oshawa Generals OHL 54 14th 9 23 22nd 15th 3 2 5 5
1987 Oshawa Generals Memorial Cup 3 1 1 2 0
1987/88 Oshawa Generals OHL 64 29 39 68 59 4th 2 3 5 0
1988/89 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 58 21st 21st 42 58 11 3 5 8th 11
1989/90 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 80 30th 47 77 39 6th 1 1 2 7th
1990/91 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 62 23 29 52 18th 5 1 3 4th 2
1990/91 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 11 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
1991/92 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 44 19th 16 35 38 10 5 4th 9 9
1991/92 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1992/93 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 3 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1992/93 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 5 4th 9 14th 12 3 2 5 0
1993/94 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 63 3 5 8th 20th - - - - -
1993/94 Florida panthers NHL 7th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1994/95 Detroit Vipers IHL 25th 8th 12 20th 6th 5 1 0 1 0
1994/95 Florida panthers NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1995/96 Springfield Falcons AHL 72 22nd 20th 42 32 10 3 0 3 2
1996/97 Springfield Falcons AHL 38 18th 14th 32 19th 16 7th 3 10 4th
1996/97 Hartford Whalers NHL 10 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
1997/98 Beast of New Haven AHL 71 24 27 51 34 3 0 1 1 0
1997/98 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1998/99 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 62 12 31 43 19th 2 1 1 2 0
1998/99 Nashville Predators NHL 9 1 3 4th 2 - - - - -
1999/00 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 69 3 4th 7th 10 - - - - -
2000/01 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 67 1 1 2 15th 6th 0 2 2 2
2001/02 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 65 4th 1 5 12 23 0 1 1 0
2002/03 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 59 0 4th 4th 8th - - - - -
OHL total 239 63 78 141 120 25th 4th 7th 11 5
IHL total 334 115 157 272 178 39 12 14th 26th 29
AHL total 181 64 61 125 85 29 6th 8th 14th 6th
NHL overall 425 17th 26th 43 83 41 2 6th 8th 2

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Daniels, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daniels, Jeffrey Dwayne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Oshawa , Ontario