Jim Paek

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Jim Paek
Date of birth April 7, 1967
place of birth Seoul , South Korea
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 9th lap, 170th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1984-1987 Oshawa Generals
1987-1990 Muskegon Lumberjacks
1990-1991 Team Canada
1991-1994 Pittsburgh Penguins
1994 Los Angeles Kings
1994-1995 Ottawa Senators
1995-1996 Houston Eros
Minnesota Mosses
1996 Manitoba mosses
1996-2000 Cleveland Lumberjacks
2000-2001 Nottingham Panthers
2001-2002 Anchorage Aces

Jim Paek (born Baek Ji-seon , Korean 백지 선 ; born April 7, 1967 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a former Canadian - Korean ice hockey defender and currently assistant coach for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League . He also served as the head coach of the South Korean selection at the 2015 World Cup . He was the first Korean NHL player and Stanley Cup winner. Since March 2011 he has also had a US passport .

Career as a player

Jim Peak was born in South Korea. He was still a child when his parents emigrated to Canada with him. There he learned to play ice hockey and played in several youth leagues before making his debut in 1984 in the high-class Canadian junior league OHL with the Oshawa Generals . After his rookie season, the Pittsburgh Penguins selected him in the ninth round of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft at position 170, but Paek stayed with the Generals for the time being. His career with the juniors lasted a total of three seasons and the greatest success was in 1987 winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup as champion of the OHL and losing the final at the Memorial Cup .

In the fall of 1987 Paek finally switched to the pros and played for three years with the Muskegon Lumberjacks from the second-rate IHL . While he was more defensive in the juniors, he also stood out in Muskegon because of his offensive game and reached 50 points every season. In addition, he won the Turner Cup with the Lumberjacks in 1989 as the winner of the IHL playoffs and they moved into the final again the following year.

The 1990/91 season he spent mainly with the Canadian national team , but at the end of the season he became the first Korean in NHL history to go on the ice in the highest North American ice hockey league when he played three games in the regular season for the Pittsburgh Penguins and also was used eight times in the playoffs on the way to the Stanley Cup victory. As a result, his name was the first Korean to be engraved on the trophy.

1991/92 he played the entire season in Pittsburgh, but was only used in 49 games and also scored his first goal in the NHL during that time. In the playoffs he only missed two games when the Penguins won their second Stanley Cup. In the following season he finally prevailed in the team's regular formation and had his best year in the NHL with three goals and 15 assists , but was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings in the next season after weaker performances . After playing 18 games in Los Angeles, he was again part of a transfer that sent him to the Ottawa Senators in the summer of 1994 . The 1994/95 season with 29 games and two assists should have been his last in the top division.

He returned to the IHL in the fall of 1995 and initially played for the Houston Eros and the Minnesota Moose , who relocated a little later and were called Manitoba Moose . Shortly after the move, he moved within the league to the Cleveland Lumberjacks in the fall of 1997 . There he stayed for almost three full seasons, but he could no longer build on the performance from the beginning of his professional career. In the spring of 1999 he went back to the Houston Eros and celebrated with them his second Turner Cup win. He completed the 1999/2000 season again in Cleveland, but left North America in the summer of 2000.

In the 2000/01 season Paek played in the British Ice Hockey Superleague for the Nottingham Panthers , but came back to North America after only one season, where he was active as a player and defensive coach with the Anchorage Aces from the lower class WCHL for a year was. After another season with the Nottingham Panthers, he finally ended his career in 2003.

Career as a coach

After he was able to gain his first experience as a defensive coach with the Anchorage Aces in the 2001/02 season, he took over the coaching of the Orlando Seals from the World Hockey Association 2 after the end of his playing career in summer 2003 . After the league was dissolved after only one season, he returned to Cleveland , Ohio , where he was active as a player for several years. There he was assistant coach of the St. Edwards High School team and coached the amateur Cleveland Panthers at the same time . Both teams won their championships that year.

In the summer of 2005 Paek was hired as assistant coach by Greg Ireland at the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings , from the AHL . In the very first year, the Griffins were the best team of the regular season and made it to the conference final of the playoffs. The second season, however, was not very successful and head coach Ireland had to leave the team, while Paek was allowed to continue working under the new coach Mike Stothers . The 2007/08 season was even more unsuccessful and Stothers was fired after only one year.

After the season, Jim Paek made a brief stint in the NHL, coaching the Griffins' young talent, who joined the Detroit Red Wings for the playoffs and eventually won the Stanley Cup. Although Paek's name was not engraved on the trophy a third time after his two victories as a player, he was allowed to spend a day with the Stanley Cup like every member of the championship team.

For the 2008/09 season he returned to Grand Rapids, where he initially worked under head coach Curt Fraser until the summer of 2012 and has since assisted his successor Jeff Blashill . In the 2014/15 season, he was in charge of South Korean national teams: First, in December 2014, he was the head coach of the U20 team at the World Cup in Group A of Division II, and then in April 2014 he led the men's team to immediately move up from the B- Division I group into the A group.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984-85 Oshawa Generals OHL 54 2 13 15th 57 5 1 0 1 9
1985-86 Oshawa Generals OHL 64 5 21st 26th 122 6th 0 1 1 9
1986-87 Oshawa Generals OHL 57 5 17th 22nd 75 26th 1 14th 15th 43
Oshawa Generals MCup 4th 1 0 1 4th
1987-88 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 82 7th 52 59 141 6th 0 0 0 29
1988-89 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 80 3 54 57 96 14th 1 10 11 24
1989-90 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 81 9 41 50 115 15th 1 10 11 41
1990-91 Canada Ntl team 48 2 12 14th 24 - - - - -
Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 3 0 0 0 9 8th 1 0 1 2
1991-92 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 49 1 7th 8th 36 19th 0 4th 4th 6th
1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 77 3 15th 18th 64 - - - - -
1993-94 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 41 0 4th 4th 8th - - - - -
Los Angeles Kings NHL 18th 1 1 2 10 - - - - -
1994-95 Ottawa Senators NHL 29 0 2 2 28 - - - - -
1995-96 Houston Eros IHL 25th 2 5 7th 20th - - - - -
Minnesota Moose IHL 42 1 11 12 54 - - - - -
1996-97 Manitoba mosses IHL 9 0 2 2 12 - - - - -
Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 74 3 25th 28 36 14th 0 1 1 2
1997-98 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 75 7th 9 16 48 10 2 1 3 4th
1998-99 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 65 4th 11 15th 34 - - - - -
Houston Eros IHL 11 0 3 3 2 19th 2 4th 6th 10
1999-00 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 69 2 20th 22nd 27 9 0 2 2 2
2000-01 Nottingham Panthers BIHS 47 3 21st 24 28 6th 1 2 3 2
2001-02 Anchorage Aces WCHL 40 1 28 29 12 - - - - -
Nottingham Panthers BIHS 5 0 0 0 4th 6th 0 1 1 4th
2002-03 Nottingham Panthers BIHS 32 1 10 11 10 17th 0 4th 4th 18th
OHL total 175 12 51 63 254 37 2 15th 17th 61
IHL total 613 38 233 271 585 82 6th 28 34 112
Ntl team overall 48 2 12 14th 24 - - - - -
NHL overall 217 5 29 34 155 27 1 4th 5 8th
BIHS total 84 4th 31 35 42 29 1 7th 8th 24
WCHL overall 40 1 28 29 12 - - - - -

( 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 Paek, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 짐 백 (Hangeul); Baek Chi-sun (birth name); 백지 선 (maiden name, Hangeul); Baek Ji-seon (maiden name, revised Romanization); Paek Chisŏn (maiden name, McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean-Canadian ice hockey defender and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea