Jim Carey

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United StatesUnited States  Jim Carey Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 31, 1974
place of birth Dorchester , Massachusetts , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 86 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd round, 32nd position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
1992-1994 University of Wisconsin – Madison
1994-1995 Portland Pirates
1995-1997 Washington Capitals
1997-1998 Boston Bruins
1998-1999 Providence Bruins
1999 St. Louis Blues

Jim Carey (born May 31, 1974 in Dorchester , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey goalkeeper who played for the Washington Capitals , Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League between 1995 and 1999 .

Career

Jim Carey was drawn by the Washington Capitals in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft in the second round (overall in 32nd place) and was already compared to the young Tom Barrasso , who was already named the best goalie of the season at the age of 19. The next two years he played for the Wisconsin Badgers , the university team of the University of Wisconsin , in the WCHA , before he came to the NHL in Washington at the beginning of the 1994/95 season and was able to impress in his first year. Although he was only 20 years old, he was nominated number 1 on the team and at the end of the season for the Vezina Trophy , which is awarded to the outstanding goalie of the NHL season, and came in third place in the vote many other honors were added. So he landed in the vote for the Calder Memorial Trophy , which the best rookie receives, in second place. The press turned over because a new star was born.

The 1995/96 season should be at least as successful as his first. Carey played outstanding. Played a total of 71 games and managed 9 shutouts . The reward: a few weeks after his 22nd birthday, he was named the outstanding goalie of the NHL season and received the Vezina Trophy . However, things didn't go that smoothly in the play-offs and he was temporarily pushed out of the gate by Olaf Kölzig . Nevertheless, he was the young star of the Capitals .

Things didn't go quite as smoothly in the following 1996/97 season . Although he delivered a solid performance, it lacked the power of the first two years. On March 1, 1997 he was transferred to the Boston Bruins in a large transfer business, where he could not recover from his crisis until the end of the season. On the contrary, he fell even deeper into the performance hole. Carey could not understand why he was being transferred from Washington to Boston, had doubts about himself and had mental problems as a result. He was also attacked by the press and heavily criticized Carey's performance.

At the start of the 1997-98 season who pledged Boston Bruins with Byron Dafoe a new goalkeeper Jim Carey as the No. 1 repressed, making him more plunged into psychological depth. The result was that he only played 10 games in the NHL and was not used when the Boston Bruins met Carey's former team from Washington in the first playoff round. In the following season 1998/99 he graduated no more game for the Boston Bruins. He played a good season for the farm team in the second-rate AHL before he was released on March 1, 1999 by the Boston Bruins. In the same season he got a contract with the St. Louis Blues for which he went on the ice four times. But the contract was not extended after the end of the season.

St. Louis was the last stop in his career because Jim Carey has not signed a contract with an ice hockey team since then. On the one hand because he didn't feel like staying in this business any longer and on the other hand because no team wanted to sign him as number 1. So he, who was the best goalkeeper in the league at the age of 22 and was considered one of the greatest talents, ended his career in 1999 at the age of 25. Carey never spoke publicly about the end of his career, but quietly disappeared from the ice hockey business.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP GA SO GA Avg SV% GP GA SO GA Avg SV%
1994-1995 Washington Capitals NHL 28 57 4th 2.13 .913 7th 25th 0 4.19 .834
1995-1996 Washington Capitals NHL 71 153 9 2.26 .906 3 10 0 6.19 .744
1996-1997 Washington Capitals NHL 40 105 1 2.75 .893 - - - - -
Boston Bruins NHL 19th 64 0 3.82 .871 - - - - -
1997-1998 Boston Bruins NHL 10 24 2 2.90 .893 - - - - -
1998-1999 St. Louis Blues NHL 4th 13 0 3.86 .829 - - - - -
NHL overall 162 416 16 2.58 .898 10 35 0 4.62 .816

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

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personal data
SURNAME Carey, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorchester , Massachusetts