Mike Eastwood

Mike Eastwood
Date of birth	July 1, 1967
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1987 , 5th round, 91st position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1984-1986	Nepean Raiders
1986-1987	Pembroke Lumber Kings
1987-1991	Western Michigan University
1991-1995	Toronto Maple Leafs
1995-1996	Winnipeg Jets
1996-1997	Phoenix Coyotes
1997-1998	New York Rangers
1998-2002	St. Louis Blues
2002-2003	Chicago Blackhawks
2003-2004	Pittsburgh Penguins

Michael Barry "Mike" Eastwood (born July 1, 1967 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 880 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Winnipeg Jets , Phoenix Coyotes , New York Rangers , St. Louis Blues , Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League on the position of the center has denied.

Career

Mike Eastwood first played for the Nepean Raiders before the striker moved to the Pembroke Lumber Kings in the 1986 calendar year within the Central Junior A Hockey League , a lower class Canadian junior league . During this time, the Toronto Maple Leafs secured the NHL rights to the offensive player when they selected the attacker in the fifth round at a total of 91st position in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft . For the 1987/88 season he began studying at Western Michigan University and went on the ice for their ice hockey team, the so-called Broncos , in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . After a rookie season with 13 points scorer in 42 games, the center forward managed to significantly increase his points yield in each of the three following seasons. So Eastwood ended the 1990/91 season with a record of 29 goals and 32 assists , for which the Canadian was rewarded with a nomination for the CCHA's Second All-Star Team . With 61 points he was the Broncos with the best points and finished seventh in the league's internal scorer list.

Relatively early in the 1991/92 season , on November 16, 1991, Eastwood made his debut for the Torontoers in the National Hockey League when the striker ran up in the game against the Chicago Blackhawks . However, he spent most of the season on the farm team with the St. John's Maple Leafs in the American Hockey League , with which the Canadian only failed in the Calder Cup finals at the Adirondack Red Wings . In the following season, Eastwood retained his regular place on the AHL farm team in St. John's. His first NHL goal of the regular season for the Maple Leafs posted the right-shooter on March 27, 1993 against the Edmonton Oilers . During the 1993/94 season, Eastwood finally established itself as a permanent fixture in the Toronto’s NHL squad. In the same season, the striker contributed five points in 18 play-off games to make it into the third round before the team lost to the Vancouver Canucks .

During the 1994/95 NHL season, which was shortened due to a lockout , the Maple Leafs transferred the center together with a third-round vote in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Tie Domi to the Winnipeg Jets in April 1995 . For the Jets, however, the Canadian only ran a little over a year before the franchise was relocated to the US state of Arizona in the summer of 1996 and renamed Phoenix Coyotes . In the spring of 1997, Eastwood continued his career on the east coast, since the Coyotes gave him together with Dallas Eakins in exchange for Jayson More to the New York Rangers . The Canadian also worked for the Blueshirts for around a year before they transferred him to St. Louis as compensation in March 1998 as part of a barter that brought Harry York from the St. Louis Blues to Madison Square Garden .

Eastwood completed in the jersey of the Blues the statistically most successful career stage in the NHL and reached during this time in the 1999/2000 season with a point yield of 19 hits and 15 assists in 79 games of the regular season, his best record. The time of the right-shooter in the jersey of the Blues ended in December 2002 after the Chicago Blackhawks had selected Eastwood, who was on the waiver list . After the end of the 2002/03 season , he signed a contract as a free agent for one season with the Pittsburgh Penguins . The striker then ended his active career.

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , Eastwood returned to the ice hockey business after a ten-year break as a coach and worked as an assistant for the Ottawa 67’s for three years . He ended his engagement in the summer of 2017 before he became assistant coach for the Hershey Bears in the AHL for the 2018/19 season .

Achievements and Awards

• 1991 CCHA Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1984/85	Nepean Raiders	CJHL		46	10	13	23	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Nepean Raiders	CJHL		7th	4th	2	6th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Pembroke Lumber Kings	CJHL		54	58	45	103	62		23	36	11	47	32
1987/88	Western Michigan University	NCAA		42	5	8th	13	14th
1988/89	Western Michigan University	NCAA		40	10	13	23	87
1989/90	Western Michigan University	NCAA		40	25th	27	52	36
1990/91	Western Michigan University	NCAA		42	29	32	61	84
1991/92	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		61	18th	25th	43	28		16	9	10	19th	16
1991/92	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		9	0	2	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		60	24	35	59	32		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		12	1	6th	7th	21st		10	1	2	3	8th
1993/94	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		54	8th	10	18th	28		18th	3	2	5	12
1994/95	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		36	5	5	10	32		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		13	3	6th	9	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		80	14th	14th	28	20th		6th	0	1	1	2
1996/97	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		33	1	3	4th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	New York Rangers	NHL		27	1	7th	8th	10		15th	1	2	3	22nd
1997/98	New York Rangers	NHL		48	5	5	10	16		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	St. Louis Blues	NHL		10	1	0	1	6th		3	1	0	1	0
1998/99	St. Louis Blues	NHL		82	9	21st	30th	36		13	1	1	2	6th
1999/00	St. Louis Blues	NHL		79	19th	15th	34	32		7th	1	1	2	6th
2000/01	St. Louis Blues	NHL		77	6th	17th	23	28		15th	0	2	2	2
2001/02	St. Louis Blues	NHL		71	7th	10	17th	41		10	0	0	0	6th
2002/03	St. Louis Blues	NHL		17th	1	3	4th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		53	2	10	12	24		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		82	4th	15th	19th	40		-	-	-	-	-
CJHL overall				107	72	60	132	86		23	36	11	47	32
NCAA overall				164	69	80	149	221
AHL total				121	42	60	102	60		16	9	10	19th	16
NHL overall				783	87	149	236	354		97	8th	11	19th	64

( 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

• Mike Eastwood at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Mike Eastwood at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Mike Eastwood at hockeydb.com (English)