Keith Primeau

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CanadaCanada  Keith Primeau Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 24, 1971
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 196 cm
Weight 107 kg
position center
number # 55
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1990 , 1st lap, 3rd position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1987-1988 Hamilton Steelhawks
1988-1990 Niagara Falls Thunder
1990-1996 Detroit Red Wings
1996-1997 Hartford Whalers
1997-1999 Carolina Hurricanes
1999-2006 Philadelphia Flyers

Keith David Primeau (born November 24, 1971 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 1037 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Hartford Whalers , Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers in the course of his active career between 1990 and 2006 National Hockey League has contested on the position of the center . His greatest career success celebrated Primeau, who had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in third position and twice participated in the NHL All-Star Game , but in the service of the Adirondack Red Wings by winning the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League in 1992.

Career

Keith Primeau began his career in 1987 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League with the Hamilton Steelhawks . After a weak first season, the team moved and renamed itself Niagara Falls Thunder . There he was able to prove his skills as a top scorer and scored 127 points scorer in 65 games in the 1989/90 season , leading the league in points. The teams of the National Hockey League became aware of him and so he was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL Entry Draft 1990 in the first round in third place.

The first two years shuttled between the attacker and the Detroit AHL - farm team Adirondack Red Wings before he in the game 1992/93 definitively established in the NHL. Although he was only used in the third attack row of the Red Wings, as the center positions of the first two rows were occupied by Steve Yzerman and Sergei Fjodorow , Primeau still had a good point yield. In the 1993/94 season he had his best season with 73 points and the following year he was with Detroit in the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1995 . The situation in the team worsened during the 1995/96 season when Igor Larionov , another outstanding player, was committed to the position of center forward. Primeau responded in the summer of 1996 with a strike, a so-called "hold-out" , which is why he was finally transferred to the Hartford Whalers shortly before the beginning of the following season together with Paul Coffey and a first-round suffrage in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Brendan Shanahan and Brian Glynn moved to Detroit.

The team moved to Raleigh , North Carolina a year later and renamed themselves Carolina Hurricanes . Primeau went to the new home of the team and was appointed team captain before the start of the 1998/99 season . After he and the team failed to agree on a contract extension in the summer of 1999, Primeau struck again and was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in January 2000 , where he became a hero in the 2000 Stanley Cup playoffs when he was after a season of 152 minutes and thus scored the 2-1 winner for the Flyers against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the sixth extra period . With his goal in extra time he decided the third longest game in NHL history.

He was also one of the leading players in Philadelphia and took over the “C” as team captain in 2001 and was able to reach the 73 point mark with the Flyers for the second time in his career. He played defensive in the following seasons, which is why his points yield decreased somewhat, but in the 2003/04 season he led the Flyers with 16 points in 18 games to the finals of the Eastern Conference, where they met the eventual Stanley Cup winners Tampa Bay Lightning could keep up until the seventh and decisive game, but then narrowly eliminated. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he suffered a concussion that marked the end of the season for him. The consequences of the injury finally prompted him to announce the end of his career in September 2006.

He subsequently analyzed the Philadelphia Flyers games on television. Starting in summer 2009, Primeau worked for the Las Vegas Wranglers from ECHL as Director of Player Development for four years . He then worked in the junior sector as a coach and functionary in teams in which his sons were pursuing their junior careers. Since the 2018/19 season he has been President of the Youngstown Phantoms of the United States Hockey League and Vice President of the Maryland Black Bears of the North American Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1986/87 Whitby Flyers Minor ON 65 69 80 149 116
1987/88 Hamilton Kilty B's OHA-B 19th 19th 17th 36 16
1987/88 Hamilton Steelhawks OHL 47 6th 6th 12 69 11 0 2 2 2
1988/89 Niagara Falls Thunder OHL 48 20th 35 55 56 17th 9 6th 15th 12
1989/90 Niagara Falls Thunder OHL 65 57 70 127 97 16 16 17th 33 49
1990/91 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 6th 3 5 8th 8th - - - - -
1990/91 Detroit Red Wings NHL 58 3 12 15th 106 5 1 1 2 25th
1991/92 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 42 21st 24 45 89 9 1 7th 8th 27
1991/92 Detroit Red Wings NHL 35 6th 10 16 83 11 0 0 0 14th
1992/93 Detroit Red Wings NHL 73 15th 17th 32 152 7th 0 2 2 26th
1993/94 Detroit Red Wings NHL 78 31 42 73 173 7th 0 2 2 6th
1994/95 Detroit Red Wings NHL 45 15th 27 42 99 17th 4th 5 9 45
1995/96 Detroit Red Wings NHL 74 27 25th 52 168 17th 1 4th 5 28
1996/97 Hartford Whalers NHL 75 26th 25th 51 161 - - - - -
1997/98 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 81 26th 37 63 110 - - - - -
1998/99 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 78 30th 32 62 75 6th 0 3 3 6th
1999/00 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 23 7th 10 17th 31 18th 2 11 13 13
2000/01 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 71 34 39 73 76 4th 0 3 3 6th
2001/02 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 75 19th 29 48 128 5 0 0 0 6th
2002/03 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 19th 27 46 93 13 1 1 2 14th
2003/04 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 54 7th 15th 22nd 80 18th 9 7th 16 22nd
2004/05 Philadelphia Flyers NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 9 1 6th 7th 6th - - - - -
OHL total 160 83 111 194 222 44 25th 25th 50 63
AHL total 48 24 29 53 97 9 1 7th 8th 27
NHL overall 909 266 353 619 1541 128 18th 39 57 213

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1996 Canada World cup 2nd place 5 0 0 0 21st
1997 Canada WM 1st place, gold 11 3 3 6th 14th
1998 Canada Olympia 4th Place 6th 2 1 3 4th
1998 Canada WM 6th place 6th 3 1 4th 4th
Men overall 28 8th 5 13 43

( 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 )

family

His younger brother Wayne Primeau was also a professional in the NHL and completed a total of 864 games for the Buffalo Sabers , Tampa Bay Lightning , Pittsburgh Penguins , San Jose Sharks , Boston Bruins , Calgary Flames and Toronto Maple Leafs . During a game between the Hartford Whalers and the Buffalo Sabers in the 1996/97 season , both fought a fist fight. His son Cayden Primeau was selected in the seventh round of the NHL Entry Draft 2017 by the Canadiens de Montréal . His brother-in-law Derrick Smith was also active in the NHL for many years.

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personal data
SURNAME Primeau, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Primeau, Keith David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario