Keith Primeau
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
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International
- 1996 Second place at the World Cup of Hockey
- 1997 gold medal at the world championship
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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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:
( 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.
Web links
- Keith Primeau at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Keith Primeau at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Keith Primeau at hockeydb.com (English)
personal data | |
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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 |