Manny Legace

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CanadaCanada  Manny Legace Ice hockey player
Manny Legace
Date of birth 4th February 1973
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 73 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 34
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 8th lap, 188th position
Hartford Whalers
Career stations
1990-1993 Niagara Falls Thunder
1993-1994 Team Canada
1994-1997 Springfield Falcons
1997-1998 Las Vegas Thunder
1998-1999 Los Angeles Kings
1999-2000 Manitoba mosses
2000-2006 Detroit Red Wings
2004-2005 Chimik Voskressensk
2006-2009 St. Louis Blues
2009 Peoria Rivermen
2009-2010 Carolina Hurricanes
2010-2011 Iserlohn Roosters
2011 San Antonio Rampage
2011–2012 Springfield Falcons

Emmanuel "Manny" Legace (born February 4, 1973 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who has played for the Los Angeles Kings , Detroit Red Wings , St. Louis Blues and Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League .

Career

Legace was drawn at 188th place by the Hartford Whalers in the eighth round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft . At that time he played with the Niagara Falls Thunder in the Ontario Hockey League . In the following years he continued to play in lower class leagues, including for the Springfield Falcons between 1994 and 1998. In 1994 he won the silver medal with the Canadian national team at the Winter Olympics , but was not used himself.

In 1997 the Hartford Whalers moved to Carolina and have been known as the Carolina Hurricanes since the beginning . In 1998 he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings , where he was on the ice for the first time in the National Hockey League , but was between the posts for Long Beach Ice Dogs in the International Hockey League for most of the season . At the beginning of the 1999/2000 season Legace was a free agent and got a contract with the Detroit Red Wings , but was used in the season almost exclusively with the Manitoba Moose in the IHL.

In the following years he got more ice age in the NHL, but was still in the shadow of other goalies, such as Chris Osgood , Dominik Hašek or Curtis Joseph . In 2002 he won the Stanley Cup with Detroit . During the lockout in the NHL, he played in Russia for Chimik Voskressensk , but only played two games and spent the rest of the season in Novi , Michigan . At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he was finally number 1 with the Detroit Red Wings and ended the regular season with his team in first place. The play-offs were very early and surprisingly in the first round against the Edmonton Oilers ended against which they lost 4-2 (Best of Seven).

Despite good performance, he was informed after the season that they were no longer planning with him and that the contract would not be extended. In early August he signed a contract with the St. Louis Blues . There he took over the post of goalkeeper and was still one of the stronger players of the team in the 2006/07 season , although the year was rather disappointing for the Blues. However, Legace could not complete the full number of games because he only suffered a concussion in December and had to undergo knee surgery in late February 2007. His contract was finally extended for two years to 2009. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season Legace lost his regular place in the gate to Chris Mason , who had been replaced by the Nashville Predators and played a very strong season. On February 6, 2009, the St. Louis Blues announced that they have put Manny Legace on the waiver list and have brought goalkeeper Chris Holt from the farm team to the NHL roster . After a season with the Carolina Hurricanes , where he played few games, he moved to the Iserlohn Roosters in 2010 .

After he completed a try-out at the Vancouver Canucks in the summer of 2011 , but had not received a contract, the goalkeeper was also committed to a try-out for the 2011/12 season by the San Antonio Rampage from the American Hockey League. After an AHL game for the Rampage, Legace decided in October 2011 for an engagement with the Springfield Falcons, again on a try-out basis. After the 2011/12 season Legace ended his active career.

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%
1998-99 Los Angeles Kings NHL 17th 39 0 2.60 .911 - - - - -
1999-00 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 11 0 2.75 .906 - - - - -
2000-01 Detroit Red Wings NHL 39 73 2 2.05 .960 - - - - -
2001-02 Detroit Red Wings NHL 20th 45 1 2.42 .911 1 1 0 5.45 .500
2002-03 Detroit Red Wings NHL 25th 51 0 2.18 .925 - - - - -
2003-04 Detroit Red Wings NHL 41 82 3 2.12 .920 4th 8th 0 2.18 .905
2005-06 Detroit Red Wings NHL 51 106 7th 2.15 .915 6th 18th 0 2.64 .884
2006-07 St. Louis Blues NHL 45 109 5 2.59 .907 - - - - -
NHL overall 242 516 18th 2.28 .915 11 27 0 2.53 .888

( 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iserlohn: NHL goalie Legace becomes new number 1. (No longer available online.) Iserlohn-roosters.de, October 13, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2015 ; Retrieved February 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iserlohn-roosters.de
personal data
SURNAME Legace, Manny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Legace, Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario