Mike Modano

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United StatesUnited States  Mike Modano Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2014
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2019
Mike Modano
Date of birth June 7, 1970
place of birth Livonia , Michigan , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 95 kg
position center
number # 9
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1988 , 1st round, 1st position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1986-1989 Prince Albert Raiders
1989-1993 Minnesota North Stars
1993-2010 Dallas Stars
2010-2011 Detroit Red Wings

Michael Thomas "Mike" Modano junior (born June 7, 1970 in Livonia , Michigan ) is a former American ice hockey player and official of Italian descent who played 1675 games for the Minnesota North Stars during his active career between 1989 and 2011 . Dallas Stars and Detroit Red Wings played in the National Hockey League . The former first elected member of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft and Stanley Cup winner with the Dallas Stars has been a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame since 2014 .

Career

After two very successful years as a junior player with the Prince Albert Raiders in the Western Hockey League , the Minnesota North Stars selected Mike Modano in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft as the first overall draft election . He played the following season in Prince Albert and was brought to Minnesota only to two playoff games.

The 1989/90 season he then played for the Minnesota North Stars and with 75 points already in his first NHL season met the expectations that the management in Minnesota had put in the hopefuls. For this he was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team . He was also one of the contenders for the Calder Memorial Trophy , but it went to 32-year-old Sergei Makarov , who moved to the NHL after the Iron Curtain opened . There were so intense discussions about this that since this season the Calder Trophy has only been awarded to players who are not older than 25 at the beginning of the season. In the next season 1990/91 Modano reached the finals for the Stanley Cup with the North Stars , but were subject to Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins . In the summer of 1993, the North Stars franchise moved to Dallas , Texas , where it traded as Dallas Stars .

Modano scores his record-breaking 1233rd NHL point

At that time, the agile Modano was already the figurehead of the stars. In the first season in Dallas 1993/94 he reached 93 points scorer as in the previous year , his best result in the NHL. He played with the US national team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . In the 1998/99 season, the Dallas Stars upgraded and they managed with Modano to win the Stanley Cup in the final series against the Buffalo Sabers with a controversial overtime goal by Brett Hull . The following season the stars were in the final again, but this time it was the New Jersey Devils who won the cup. He played his second Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 . Here he was able to win the silver medal with Team USA.

Modano was unable to win a personal trophy, after failing in the race for the Calder Trophy, he was nominated in 2001 for the Frank J. Selke Trophy and in 2003 for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy , but did not win. He played six times in the NHL All-Star Game (1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004); In 2004 he was the captain of the Western Conference . After Derian Hatcher's departure in 2003, he was also the captain of the Dallas Stars . In the summer of 2005, Modano signed a contract with the Dallas Stars until 2010. He was at that time the only remaining player who had played both in Minnesota for the North Stars, and still played for Dallas. For the 2006/07 season he was replaced by Brenden Morrow as captain and Mike Modano was again assistant captain. On March 13, 2007, he also scored his 500th NHL goal , making it the 39th player to do so. On March 17, Modano scored his goals 502 and 503 in the 3-2 defeat by the Nashville Predators , making him the most successful American in NHL history. On November 7, 2007, he scored two goals for a 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks . Because of the goals, he was the only record holder in terms of the number of points scored by an American player. He scored his 1233rd NHL scorer point and replaced Phil Housley as the previous record holder.

Modano was also part of the United States' team at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . In June 2010, Joe Nieuwendyk , the new general manager of the Dallas Stars, announced that Modano would no longer receive a new contract as a player, but wanted to offer him another position in the franchise. After careful consideration and offers from the Minnesota Wild and Detroit Red Wings , Modano signed a one-year contract with the Red Wings in August 2010.

In September 2011, Mike Modano announced the end of his career. Until then, he had achieved a total of 1374 scorer points in the regular season, making him still the most successful American player in the scorer ranking (as of February 2016). On October 15, 2012, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame for his services to ice hockey in the United States . Two years later he was inducted into the glorious Hockey Hall of Fame , and finally also into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2019 .

After the end of his career, Modano acquired shares in Allen Americans from the Central Hockey League together with Ed Belfour and Craig Ludwig and was therefore the owner of the franchise between 2012 and 2014 - when the trio sold the shares again. Between 2012 and 2015 he also worked as a consultant at his ex-club Dallas Stars.

Achievements and Awards

International

Others

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1985/86 Detroit Compuware MNHL 69 66 65 131 32 - - - - -
1986/87 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 70 32 30th 62 96 8th 1 4th 5 4th
1987/88 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 65 47 80 127 80 9 7th 11 18th 18th
1988/89 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 41 39 66 105 74 - - - - -
1988/89 Minnesota North Stars NHL - - - - - 2 0 0 0 0
1989/90 Minnesota North Stars NHL 80 29 46 75 63 7th 1 1 2 12
1990/91 Minnesota North Stars NHL 79 28 36 64 65 23 8th 12 20th 6th
1991/92 Minnesota North Stars NHL 76 33 44 77 46 7th 3 2 5 4th
1992/93 Minnesota North Stars NHL 82 33 60 93 83 - - - - -
1993/94 Dallas Stars NHL 76 50 43 93 54 9 7th 3 10 16
1994/95 Dallas Stars NHL 30th 12 17th 29 8th - - - - -
1995/96 Dallas Stars NHL 78 36 45 81 63 - - - - -
1996/97 Dallas Stars NHL 80 35 48 83 42 7th 4th 1 5 0
1997/98 Dallas Stars NHL 52 21st 38 59 32 17th 4th 10 14th 12
1998/99 Dallas Stars NHL 77 34 47 81 44 23 5 18th 23 16
1999/00 Dallas Stars NHL 77 38 43 81 48 23 10 13 23 10
2000/01 Dallas Stars NHL 81 33 51 84 52 9 3 4th 7th 0
2001/02 Dallas Stars NHL 78 34 43 77 38 - - - - -
2002/03 Dallas Stars NHL 79 28 57 85 30th 12 5 10 15th 4th
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 76 14th 30th 44 46 5 1 2 3 8th
2004/05 Dallas Stars NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Dallas Stars NHL 78 27 50 77 58 5 1 3 4th 4th
2006/07 Dallas Stars NHL 59 22nd 21st 43 34 7th 1 1 2 4th
2007/08 Dallas Stars NHL 82 21st 36 57 48 18th 5 7th 12 22nd
2008/09 Dallas Stars NHL 80 15th 31 46 46 - - - - -
2009/10 Dallas Stars NHL 59 14th 16 30th 22nd - - - - -
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 40 4th 11 15th 8th 2 0 1 1 0
WHL overall 176 118 176 294 250 17th 8th 15th 23 22nd
NHL overall 1499 561 813 1374 926 176 58 88 146 128

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1988 United States June World Cup 6th place 7th 4th 1 5 8th
1989 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 6th 9 15th 12
1990 United States WM 5th place 8th 3 3 6th 2
1991 United States Canada Cup 2nd place 8th 2 7th 9 2
1993 United States WM 6th place 6th 0 0 0 2
1996 United States World cup 1st place, gold 7th 2 4th 6th 4th
1998 United States Olympia 6th place 4th 2 0 2 0
2002 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 0 6th 6th 4th
2004 United States World cup 4th Place 5 0 6th 6th 0
2005 United States WM 6th place 7th 3 1 4th 4th
2006 United States Olympia 8th place 6th 2 0 2 6th
Juniors overall 14th 10 10 20th 20th
Men overall 57 14th 27 41 24

( 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 )

Others

In the movie Mighty Ducks - The Superteam , Modano had a cameo with his then teammate Basil McRae .

In addition to Mark Recchi , who also resigned after the 2010/11 season, Modano was the longest-serving player in the NHL at the time of his resignation, as he had been active in the NHL since the late 1980s.

Web links

Commons : Mike Modano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Examiner.com, Mike Modano to receive NIAF Special Achievement Award in Sports
  2. ↑ dallasnews.com, Stars will not ask modano back ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / starsblog.dallasnews.com
  3. ↑ tsn.ca, Modano accepts one-year deal with Red Wings
  4. ↑ sport.sf.tv, Mike Modano resigns from ice hockey stage
  5. ↑ NHL.com, Statistics
  6. ^ Mike G. Morreale: US Hockey Hall of Fame to honor many individuals. National Hockey League , October 13, 2012, accessed October 15, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Modano, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Modano, Michael Thomas junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Livonia , Michigan, USA