Mike Stapleton

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CanadaCanada  Mike Stapleton Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 5th 1966
place of birth Sarnia , Ontario , Canada
size 176 cm
Weight 83 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1984 , 7th lap, 132nd position
Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1981-1983 Strathroy Blades
1983-1986 Cornwall Royals
1986-1992 Chicago Blackhawks
Saginaw Hawks
Indianapolis Ice
1989-1990 Arvika HC
1992-1994 Pittsburgh Penguins
1994-1995 Edmonton Oilers
1995-1996 Winnipeg Jets
1996-1999 Phoenix Coyotes
1999-2000 Atlanta Thrashers
2000 New York Islanders
2000-2001 Vancouver Canucks
2001-2002 Espoo Blues
2002 Leksands IF
2002-2003 Espoo Blues
2003-2004 Tappara Tampere

Michael P. "Mike" Stapleton (born May 5, 1966 in Sarnia , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach. The center-forward played over 700 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Chicago Blackhawks , Pittsburgh Penguins and the Winnipeg Jets / Phoenix Coyotes franchise .

Career

As a player

Mike Stapleton played in his youth for the Strathroy Blades in the Western Ontario Hockey League until 1983 , before he moved to the Cornwall Royals in the higher-class Ontario Hockey League (OHL) at the beginning of the 1983/84 season. At the end of his rookie season, he was selected in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft in 132nd position by the Chicago Black Hawks . The center then spent two more years in Cornwall, where he achieved his best personal statistics with 104 scorer points in 56 games in the 1985/86 season and was among the top 10 scorers in the league . He also represented his home country in the same year with the U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 1986 , where he won the silver medal with the team. The following season 1986/87 Stapleton began with Team Canada , with whom he came to 21 international A-missions before he finally made his debut for the Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL). Despite 39 NHL appearances by the end of the season and 53 the following year, the center forward did not manage to establish himself permanently in the Blackhawks' squad, so he spent more and more time with their farm teams , the Saginaw Hawks and the Indianapolis Ice , in the International Hockey League (IHL) spent. In addition, he played part of the 1989/90 season at Arvika HC in the second-rate Swedish Division 1 , before he won the IHL playoffs for the Turner Cup after returning to North America with the Indianapolis Ice .

After a total of six years in the organization of the Blackhawks, Stapleton joined the Pittsburgh Penguins as a free agent in 1992 , where he was regularly used at the beginning, but was to be sent to the minor leagues via the waiver in the middle of the 1993/94 season and thereby from the Edmonton Oilers was committed. After one and a half years in Edmonton, the Canadian moved to the Winnipeg Jets as a free agent in the summer of 1995 , for whose franchise he was active for a total of four years after moving to Phoenix Coyotes . In 1999 Stapleton was selected in the NHL Expansion Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers , for which he played only one season and then moved to the New York Islanders . However, the Islanders gave the attacker to the Vancouver Canucks in December 2000 , who in return sent a vote for the ninth round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft to New York.

After the 2000/01 season Stapleton left North America again and spent another three years in Scandinavia, where he was active for the Espoo Blues , Leksands IF and Tappara Tampere . After the 2003/04 season he ended his active career.

As a trainer

Stapleton began his coaching career with the Traverse City North Stars from the North American Hockey League , where he was an assistant coach in the 2005/06 season. He also worked as an assistant for two years each with the Erie Otters (2006–2008) and the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (2008-2010) from the OHL. For the 2010/11 season, Stapleton made the leap into the professional field when the Syracuse Crunch from the American Hockey League (AHL) hired him as an assistant coach. After a year in the AHL, he returned to Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, whom he was head coach until his release in December 2012.

Stapleton has been a scout for the Anaheim Ducks from the NHL since the 2014/15 season .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1983/84 Cornwall Royals OHL 70 24 45 69 94 3 1 2 3 4th
1984/85 Cornwall Royals OHL 56 41 44 85 68 9 2 4th 6th 23
1985/86 Cornwall Royals OHL 56 39 65 104 74 6th 2 3 5 2
1986/87 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 39 3 6th 9 –9 6th 4th 0 0 0 ± 0 2
1987/88 Saginaw Hawks IHL 31 11 19th 30th 52 10 5 6th 11 10
1987/88 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 53 2 9 11 -10 59 - - - - - -
1988/89 Saginaw Hawks IHL 69 21st 47 68 162 6th 1 3 4th 4th
1988/89 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 7th 0 1 1 -1 7th - - - - - -
1989/90 Arvika HC Division 1 32 15th 19th 34 49 - - - - - -
1989/90 Indianapolis Ice IHL 16 5 10 15th 6th 13 9 10 19th 38
1990/91 Indianapolis Ice IHL 75 29 52 81 76 7th 1 4th 5 0
1990/91 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 7th 0 1 1 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
1991/92 Indianapolis Ice IHL 59 18th 40 58 65 - - - - - -
1991/92 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 19th 4th 4th 8th ± 0 8th - - - - - -
1992/93 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 4th 9 13 -8th 10 4th 0 0 0 +1 0
1993/94 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 7th 4th 11 -4 18th - - - - - -
1993/94 Edmonton Oilers NHL 23 5 9 14th -1 28 - - - - - -
1994/95 Edmonton Oilers NHL 46 6th 11 17th -12 21st - - - - - -
1995/96 Winnipeg Jets NHL 58 10 14th 24 -4 37 6th 0 0 0 -1 21st
1996/97 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 55 4th 11 15th -4 36 7th 0 0 0 -1 14th
1997/98 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 64 5 5 10 -4 36 6th 0 0 0 ± 0 2
1998/99 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 76 9 9 18th –6 34 7th 1 0 1 -1 0
1999/00 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 62 10 12 22nd -29 30th - - - - - -
2000/01 New York Islanders NHL 34 1 4th 5 -5 2 - - - - - -
2000/01 Vancouver Canucks NHL 18th 1 2 3 –6 8th - - - - - -
2001/02 Espoo Blues SM-liiga 41 18th 19th 37 –11 42 3 0 0 0 -2 4th
2002/03 Leksands IF Elitserien 19th 5 5 10 –7 10 - - - - - -
2002/03 Espoo Blues SM-liiga 33 8th 20th 28 +6 55 7th 1 2 3 +5 10
2003/04 Tappara Tampere SM-liiga 18th 6th 12 18th –6 26th 3 1 1 2 +2 2
OHL total 182 104 154 258 236 18th 5 9 14th 29
IHL total 250 84 168 252 361 36 16 23 39 52
SM-liiga total 92 32 51 83 –11 123 13 2 3 5 +5 16
NHL overall 697 71 111 182 -103 342 34 1 0 1 -2 39

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1986 Canada U20 World Cup Silver medal 7th 3 3 6th 6th
Juniors overall 7th 3 3 6th 6th

( 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 )

family

His father, Pat Stapleton, was also a professional ice hockey player who was active in the NHL for the Chicago Black Hawks and for the Canadian national team at the Summit Series . Mike's brother Tom Stapleton also played in the professional field (AHL), but spent most of his career in Sweden; also at Arvika HC.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stapleton, Mike. nhltradetracker.com, accessed February 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stapleton, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stapleton, Michael P. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnia , Ontario , Canada