Joe Reekie

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CanadaCanada  Joe Reekie Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 22, 1965
place of birth Victoria , British Columbia , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 100 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1983 , 7th lap, 124th position
Hartford Whalers
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 6th lap, 119th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1982-1983 North Bay Centennials
1983-1985 Cornwall Royals
1985-1989 Buffalo Sabers
Rochester Americans
1989-1992 New York Islanders
1992-1994 Tampa Bay Lightning
1994-2002 Washington Capitals
2002 Chicago Blackhawks

Joseph James "Joe" Reekie (born February 22, 1965 in Victoria , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The defender denied 1982-2001 a total of 900 games for five teams in the National Hockey League , most of which was for the Washington Capitals , with whom he 1998 the final of the Stanley Cup reached.

Career

Beginnings

Joe Reekie was born in the province of British Columbia, but began his junior career in Ontario , where he worked for the Nepean Raiders and the Pembroke Lumber Kings , among others . After he was selected in 1982 in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 143rd position by the North Bay Centennials , he ran from then on in this highest junior division in the region. After his first OHL season, considered him Hartford Whalers in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft at the 124th place before him the Centennial in October 1983 within the league in exchange for Scott Birnie to the Cornwall Royals duties. In Cornwall, the defender increased his personal statistics in the 1984/85 season significantly to 82 scorer points from 65 games, so that he was selected again in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabers in 119th position, as he was not previously under contract with the Hartford Whalers had taken.

Then Reekie moved to the organization of the Sabers, where he was never able to establish himself in the National Hockey League (NHL) over the next four seasons . For the time being, he was mainly used by their farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL), before he missed large parts of the 1987/88 and 1988/89 seasons due to a knee injury.

NHL

Eventually, the Sabers transferred him to the New York Islanders in June 1989 in exchange for a six- round suffrage in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft . At the Isles , the defender was only sporadically sent to the farm teams and received more time in the NHL, before the newly formed Tampa Bay Lightning signed him in the 1992 NHL Expansion Draft . After one and a half years in Florida, the Lightning sent him to the Washington Capitals in March 1994 and received in return Enrico Ciccone , a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 and another conditional draft vote. The Canadian spent most of his career with the Capitals, completing over 500 games for the team in the next eight years. The greatest success of this time marked the achievement of the Stanley Cup final in 1998 , in which the team was clearly defeated by the Detroit Red Wings 4-0.

In January 2002, the Capitals gave him in exchange for a four-round vote in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft to the Chicago Blackhawks , where Reekie ended the season and subsequently his active career. He had played a total of 953 NHL games and achieved 171 points as a classic defensive defender. After the end of his career, he was temporarily involved as a TV expert on broadcasts of the Capitals at Comcast SportsNet .

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1982/83 North Bay Centennials OHL 59 2 9 11 49 8th 0 1 1 11
1983/84 North Bay Centennials OHL 9 1 0 1 18th - - - - - -
1983/84 Cornwall Royals OHL 53 6th 27 33 166 3 0 0 0 4th
1984/85 Cornwall Royals OHL 65 19th 63 82 134 9 4th 13 17th 18th
1985/86 Rochester Americans AHL 77 3 25th 28 178 - - - - - -
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 3 0 0 0 -2 14th - - - - - -
1986/87 Rochester Americans AHL 22nd 0 6th 6th +9 52 - - - - - -
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 56 1 8th 9 +6 82 - - - - - -
1987/88 Buffalo Sabers NHL 30th 1 4th 5 -3 68 2 0 0 0 -3 4th
1988/89 Rochester Americans AHL 21st 1 2 3 -4 56 - - - - - -
1988/89 Buffalo Sabers NHL 15th 1 3 4th +6 26th - - - - - -
1989/90 Springfield Indians AHL 15th 1 4th 5 24 - - - - - -
1989/90 New York Islanders NHL 31 1 8th 9 +13 43 - - - - - -
1990/91 Capital District Islanders AHL 2 1 0 1 0 - - - - - -
1990/91 New York Islanders NHL 66 3 16 19th +17 96 - - - - - -
1991/92 Capital District Islanders AHL 3 2 2 4th +2 2 - - - - - -
1991/92 New York Islanders NHL 54 4th 12 16 +15 85 - - - - - -
1992/93 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 42 2 11 13 +2 69 - - - - - -
1993/94 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 73 1 11 12 +8 127 - - - - - -
1993/94 Washington Capitals NHL 12 0 5 5 +7 29 11 2 1 3 +1 29
1994/95 Washington Capitals NHL 48 1 6th 7th +10 97 7th 0 0 0 -4 2
1995/96 Washington Capitals NHL 78 3 7th 10 +7 149 - - - - - -
1996/97 Washington Capitals NHL 65 1 8th 9 +8 107 - - - - - -
1997/98 Washington Capitals NHL 68 2 8th 10 +15 70 21st 1 2 3 +4 20th
1998/99 Washington Capitals NHL 73 0 10 10 +11 68 - - - - - -
1999/00 Washington Capitals NHL 59 0 7th 7th +21 50 5 0 1 1 -1 2
2000/01 Washington Capitals NHL 74 2 9 11 +14 77 4th 0 0 0 -1 4th
2001/02 Washington Capitals NHL 38 2 4th 6th –7 41 - - - - - -
2001/02 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 17th 0 2 2 +2 28 1 0 0 0 ± 0 2
OHL total 186 28 99 127 367 20th 4th 14th 18th 33
AHL total 140 8th 39 47 312 - - - - - -
NHL overall 902 25th 139 164 +150 1326 51 3 4th 7th -4 63

( 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 Reekie, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reekie, Joseph James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria , British Columbia , Canada