Jeff Parker (ice hockey player)

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United StatesUnited States  Jeff Parker Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 7, 1964
place of birth White Bear Lake , Minnesota , USA
date of death 11th September 2017
Place of death Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 6th round, 111th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
until 1983 White Bear Lake High
1983-1986 Michigan State University
1986-1990 Buffalo Sabers
Rochester Americans
1991 Muskegon Lumberjacks
Hartford Whalers

Jeffrey Lee Parker (born September 7, 1964 in White Bear Lake , Minnesota , † September 11, 2017 in Minneapolis , Minnesota) was an American ice hockey player who played 146 games for the Buffalo between 1983 and 1991, among other things Sabers and Hartford Whalers played in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Parker, who had to end his career at the age of 26 due to a serious head injury and whose late effects he later suffered, celebrated the greatest success of his career by winning the Calder Cup in 1987.

Career

Parker attended White Bear Lake High School in his native White Bear Lake , Minnesota , until 1983 . Already there he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1982 in the sixth round at 111th place by the Buffalo Sabers from the National Hockey League . The then 18-year-old moved from high school to Michigan State University , where he played for the MSU ice hockey team for the next three years while studying. With the team he won the championship of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association twice within three years and in 1986 also the national college championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . As part of the final tournament, the striker was appointed to the All-Star team.

In the 1986/87 season , the Sabers finally brought the attacker into the professional field. There he commuted in the following three seasons between the NHL squad Buffalos and the farm team Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League . With Rochester he won the Calder Cup at the end of his rookie game year . With the beginning of the 1989/90 season, Parker had finally established himself with the Sabers. After spending the entire season there, Parker was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets in June 1990 together with Phil Housley , Scott Arniel . In return, Dale Hawerchuk moved to Buffalo and both teams also exchanged their first-round voting rights in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft . However, the striker did not play a game for the Jets franchise as he was sent to the AHL after the pre-season, but refused to play for the Moncton Hawks there. Thereupon both parties terminated the employment relationship.

Parker sat through the contract termination from most of the 1990/91 season before he was signed in early February 1991 as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins for the remainder of the game year. This used him until the beginning of March but exclusively with the Muskegon Lumberjacks in the International Hockey League , before he was again part of a transfer deal. Together with John Cullen and Zarley Zalapski , Parker was given to the Hartford Whalers , while Ron Francis , Grant Jennings and Ulf Samuelsson moved to Pittsburgh. At the Whalers, the American was back in the NHL squad, but he only played four games for the team. Parker suffered two serious concussions from body checks over a two-week period . After the first incident, in which his helmet was broken and he lost consciousness for over five minutes, he rushed back to gaming because he wanted to recommend himself for a new contract. After losing his sense of smell due to the second concussion , he decided at the end of the season at the age of 26 to retire from active sport.

After his early retirement, Parker suffered from the long-term effects of at least two concussions. These included severe headaches, memory gaps, and mood swings. As a result, Parker was one of a large number of former NHL players who sued the league and its - in the view of the plaintiffs - negligent handling of head injuries. Parker died in Minneapolis in September 2017 a few days after his 53rd birthday of pulmonary hypertension , which resulted in infections of the heart and lungs. After his death, his brain was donated to research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at Boston University .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1983/84 Michigan State University CCHA 44 8th 13 21st 82
1984/85 Michigan State University CCHA 42 10 12 22nd 85
1985/86 Michigan State University CCHA 41 15th 20th 35 88
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 15th 3 3 6th 7th - - - - -
1986/87 Rochester Americans AHL 54 14th 8th 22nd 75 14th 1 3 4th 19th
1987/88 Buffalo Sabers NHL 4th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
1987/88 Rochester Americans AHL 34 13 31 44 60 2 1 1 2 0
1988/89 Buffalo Sabers NHL 57 9 9 18th 82 5 0 0 0 26th
1988/89 Rochester Americans AHL 6th 2 4th 6th 9 - - - - -
1989/90 Buffalo Sabers NHL 61 4th 5 9 70 - - - - -
1990/91 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 11 1 7th 8th 13 - - - - -
1990/91 Hartford Whalers NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
NCAA overall 127 33 45 78 255
AHL total 94 29 43 72 144 16 2 4th 6th 19th
NHL overall 141 16 19th 35 163 5 0 0 0 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Paul Walsh: Ex-NHLer from Twin Cities, part of concussion suit, has died at 53. Star Tribune , September 14, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parker, Jeffrey Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH White Bear Lake , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH 11th September 2017
Place of death Minneapolis , Minnesota