Marc Savard

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Marc Savard
Date of birth 17th July 1977
place of birth Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 87 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 4th lap, 91st position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1993-1997 Oshawa Generals
1997-1999 New York Rangers
1999-2002 Calgary Flames
2002-2006 Atlanta Thrashers
2004 HC Thurgau
SC Bern
2006-2011 Boston Bruins

Marc Savard (born July 17, 1977 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active career, the center played 832 games for the New York Rangers , Calgary Flames , Atlanta Thrashers and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League between 1993 and 2011, among others . He celebrated his greatest success by winning the Stanley Cup in the service of the Boston Bruins in 2011 , in which he was unable to actively participate due to a concussion . This would mean the end of his active career. Since July 2019, Savard has been the assistant coach of the St. Louis Blues .

Career

Marc Savard began his career in 1993 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League with the Oshawa Generals . In his second season he was the top scorer of the league with 139 points in 66 games and was selected in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round at position 91 by the New York Rangers . After he could not complete all games in the following season due to an injury, he won the title of best scorer in the OHL again in the 1996/97 season , this time with 130 points. He was also able to qualify for the final round of the Memorial Cup with Oshawa , but lost in the semifinals.

Savard in the jersey of the Boston Bruins (2010)

The 1997/98 season he completed mainly in the AHL with the New York Rangers farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack . There he was able to build on his achievements as a top scorer and scored 74 times in 58 games, which is why he came to 28 games in the National Hockey League . In the 1998/99 NHL season he was finally able to play his way into the Rangers squad and only played a few games for the farm team.

In the summer of 1999 he was transferred to the Calgary Flames , where he played his best NHL season to date with 65 points in 2000/01 . However, he could not achieve great success with the Flames either. At the beginning of the 2002/03 season, the Flames transferred him to the Atlanta Thrashers . There he played very solidly for the rest of the season. In the following season, Savard only played 45 games due to injuries, which is why his 52 points must be assessed higher and he now indicated in the NHL that he is a good scorer.

The 2004/05 NHL season was canceled because of the lockout and Savard completed the season in Switzerland at SC Bern and HC Thurgau . After his return to the NHL for the 2005/06 season , Savard was finally able to show that he can bring the services he had brought in the junior league in the NHL and scored 97 points and was ninth in the league. Together with superstar Jaromír Jágr he was with 69 assists in third place in the NHL.

After the season, he did not renew his contract in Atlanta and moved to the Boston Bruins , where he was able to build on last year's performance at the beginning of the season. It was only in his tenth NHL season that Savard played his first NHL playoffs. With the Bruins he was eliminated in the first round of playoffs after they were defeated by the Canadiens de Montréal in seven games.

On February 8, 2011, the Bruins decided to take Savard after the second concussion within ten months for the remainder of the season from the game. It was only before the start of the 2010/11 season, the striker a seven-year contract with had original Six - Franchise signed. As a result, Savard suffered from the consequences of multiple traumatic brain injuries and did not play another game. However, he was still under contract with the Bruins. The Florida Panthers took over the contractual obligations in July 2015 , when Savard and Reilly Smith were exchanged for Jimmy Hayes . In June 2016, his contract, which ran until the end of the season, switched to the New Jersey Devils , who also received second-round voting rights for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft and in return sent Paul Thompson and Graham Black to Florida. In January 2018, Savard also officially announced the end of his active career.

In July 2019, the St. Louis Blues announced that they had signed Savard as Craig Berube's assistant for the following 2019/20 season .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1993/94 Oshawa Generals OHL 61 18th 39 57 24 5 4th 3 7th 8th
1994/95 Oshawa Generals OHL 66 43 96 139 78 7th 5 6th 11 8th
1995/96 Oshawa Generals OHL 47 28 59 87 77 5 4th 5 9 6th
1996/97 Oshawa Generals OHL 64 43 87 130 94 18th 13 24 37 20th
1997/98 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 58 21st 53 74 66 15th 8th 19th 27 24
1997/98 New York Rangers NHL 28 1 5 6th 4th - - - - -
1998/99 New York Rangers NHL 70 9 36 45 38 - - - - -
1998/99 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 9 3 10 13 16 7th 1 12 13 16
1999/00 Calgary Flames NHL 78 22nd 31 53 56 - - - - -
2000/01 Calgary Flames NHL 77 23 42 65 46 - - - - -
2001/02 Calgary Flames NHL 56 14th 19th 33 48 - - - - -
2002/03 Calgary Flames NHL 10 1 2 3 8th - - - - -
2002/03 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 57 16 31 47 77 - - - - -
2003/04 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 45 19th 33 52 85 - - - - -
2004/05 SC Bern NLA 5 1 2 3 0 - - - - -
2004/05 HC Thurgau NLB 13 9 19th 28 10 - - - - -
2005/06 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 82 28 69 97 100 - - - - -
2006/07 Boston Bruins NHL 82 22nd 74 96 96 - - - - -
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 74 15th 63 78 66 7th 1 5 6th 6th
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 82 25th 63 88 70 11 6th 7th 13 4th
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 41 10 23 33 14th 7th 1 2 3 12
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 25th 2 8th 10 29 - - - - -
OHL total 238 132 281 431 273 35 26th 38 64 42
AHL total 67 24 63 87 82 22nd 9 31 40 40
NHL overall 807 207 499 706 737 25th 8th 14th 22nd 22nd

( 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 : Marc Savard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bruins.nhl.com, Savard Will Sit Out Remainder of Season
  2. ↑ Devils acquire Marc Savard, 2nd-round pick from Florida. devils.nhl.com, June 10, 2016, accessed June 11, 2016 .
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personal data
SURNAME Savard, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario