Manny Malhotra

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Manny Malhotra
Date of birth May 18, 1980
place of birth Mississauga , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 98 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 1st lap, 7th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1996-1998 Guelph Storm
1998-2002 New York Rangers
2002-2003 Dallas Stars
2004 HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2004-2005 HV71 Jönköping
2003-2009 Columbus Blue Jackets
2009-2010 San Jose Sharks
2010-2013 Vancouver Canucks
2013-2014 Carolina Hurricanes
2014-2015 Canadiens de Montréal
2015-2016 Lake Erie Monsters

Emmanuel Noveen "Manny" Malhotra (born May 18, 1980 in Mississauga , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 1024 games for the New York Rangers , Dallas Stars , Columbus during his active career between 1998 and 2016 Blue Jackets , San Jose Sharks , Vancouver Canucks , Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League on the position of the center has denied. Since June 2017 he has been the assistant coach of the Vancouver Canucks. After Robin Bawa , he was the second player of Indian descent in the NHL. His brother-in-law is the Canadian basketball player Steve Nash .

Career

Malhotra, the son of an Indian and a French-Canadian , began his career as a hockey player with the Guelph Storm in the Ontario Hockey League , where he played from 1996 to 1998. The defensive striker collected 95 points in 118 games in the two seasons with the Storm. The highlight of this time was winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the 1997/98 season, as well as being awarded the Bobby Smith Trophy . In the subsequent Memorial Cup , the team only lost in the final against the Portland Winter Hawks . Nevertheless, Malhotra was awarded the George Parsons Trophy as the fairest player in sport and was voted into the All-Star team. In the summer, then chose him New York Rangers in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft from the first round as seventh overall player.

After the training camp of the Rangers in September 1998, the striker managed immediately secured a place in the main squad of NHL - franchises to obtain. In 73 missions in the 1998/99 season , he came to 16 points scorer. The following game year was less successful. Although he played 27 games for the Rangers in the NHL, he was also used again in the Guelph Storm in the OHL and the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League . With the Rangers farm team , he won the Calder Cup at the end of the season . The 2000/01 season spent Malhotra both the Rangers and the Wolf Pack because the management of the Rangers to their former first-round picks did not show satisfied with the development. After he had then completely spent the 2001/02 season in New York, he was given on March 12, 2002 together with Barrett Heisten in exchange for Martin Ručínský and Roman Ljaschenko to the Dallas Stars . For the Texans, the center only ran for a year and a half, as it was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets from the waiver list on November 21, 2003 , after the stars no longer found a use for it. In Columbus, Malhotra played the 2003/04 season to an end. With 25 points from 65 encounters, he played his best NHL season to date.

Malhotra in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

Due to the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , the Canadian spent the season in Europe. There he played from the beginning of October to the end of December for the HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian Slohokej League and the supranational Interliga . On December 20, 2004 he finally moved to HV71 Jönköping in the Swedish Elitserien , where he also ended the season.

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Malhotra returned to the Columbus Blue Jackets in the NHL. At the end of the season he was again able to set a personal record with 31 points. The following three seasons were also extremely successful for the striker, as he was always able to score around 25 to 30 points. The 2008/09 season he set another personal record with 35 points and thus had a significant share in reaching the playoffs for the first time in the history of the Blue Jackets franchise. Nevertheless, his expiring contract was not extended during the summer break, whereupon the San Jose Sharks invited him to the training camp in September 2009. On September 23, they finally signed him for a year.

After three years, he left Vancouver in the summer of 2013, becoming a free agent . After he couldn't find a new team right away, he joined the Charlotte Checkers with a try-out contract before the Carolina Hurricanes signed him for a year as a cooperation partner of the Checkers. The Hurricanes did not extend it, so that Malhotra joined the Canadiens de Montréal in August 2014 . He also stayed there for a year, so from May 2015 he was looking for a new employer as a free agent . In December 2015, he finally found a new team in the Lake Erie Monsters from the American Hockey League, which he remained loyal to until his release in March 2016. He then ended his active career and moved to the Vancouver Canucks coaching staff in September 2016 . The Canucks promoted him to assistant coach for the new head coach Travis Green in June 2017 .

International

On an international level, Malhotra took part with the Canadian national team at the U20 World Junior Championship in Sweden in 2000 . He contributed two assists in seven tournament games to win the bronze medal . The defensive specialist also represented his home country at the 2002 World Cup in Sweden. There the team did not get past sixth place. Malhotra remained pointless in seven games. In December 2015 he was part of the Team Canada which in Switzerland at the Spengler Cup took part and won it.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Guelph Storm OHL 61 16 28 44 26th 18th 7th 7th 14th 11
1997/98 Guelph Storm OHL 57 16 35 51 29 12 7th 6th 13 8th
1998/99 New York Rangers NHL 73 8th 8th 16 33 - - - - -
1999/00 Guelph Storm OHL 5 2 2 4th 4th 6th 0 2 2 4th
1999/00 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 12 1 5 6th 2 23 1 2 3 10
1999/00 New York Rangers NHL 27 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2000/01 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 28 5 6th 11 69 5 0 0 0 0
2000/01 New York Rangers NHL 50 4th 8th 12 31 - - - - -
2001/02 New York Rangers NHL 56 7th 6th 13 42 - - - - -
2001/02 Dallas Stars NHL 16 1 0 1 5 - - - - -
2002/03 Dallas Stars NHL 59 3 7th 10 42 5 1 0 1 0
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 9 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2003/04 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 56 12 13 25th 24 - - - - -
2004/05 HDD Olimpija Ljubljana Slohokej League 13 6th 7th 13 20th - - - - -
2004/05 HDD Olimpija Ljubljana Interliga 13 7th 7th 14th 16 - - - - -
2004/05 HV71 Jönköping Elitserien 20th 5 2 7th 16 - - - - -
2005/06 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 58 10 21st 31 41 - - - - -
2006/07 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 82 9 16 25th 76 - - - - -
2007/08 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 71 11 18th 29 34 - - - - -
2008/09 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 77 11 24 35 28 4th 0 0 0 0
2009/10 San Jose Sharks NHL 71 14th 19th 33 41 15th 1 0 1 0
2010/11 Vancouver Canucks NHL 72 11 19th 30th 22nd 6th 0 0 0 0
2011/12 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 7th 11 18th 14th 5 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Vancouver Canucks NHL 9 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Charlotte Checkers AHL 8th 0 0 0 17th - - - - -
2013/14 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 69 7th 6th 13 18th - - - - -
2014/15 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 58 1 3 4th 12 - - - - -
2015/16 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 23 4th 2 6th 6th - - - - -
OHL total 123 34 65 99 59 36 14th 15th 29 23
AHL total 71 10 13 23 94 28 1 2 3 10
NHL overall 991 116 179 295 451 35 2 0 2 0

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Canada U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 0 2 2 8th
2002 Canada WM 6th place 7th 0 0 0 4th
Juniors overall 7th 0 2 2 8th
Men overall 7th 0 0 0 4th

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Manny Malhotra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com: "Hurricanes Agree to Terms with Manny Malhotra" (English, October 31, 2013, accessed December 5, 2013)
Squad of the Vancouver Canucks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Malhotra, Manny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malhotra, Emmanuel Noveen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Mississauga , Ontario