Nathan LaFayette

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Nathan LaFayette
Date of birth 17th February 1973
place of birth New Westminster , British Columbia , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 3rd round, 65th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1989-1991 Kingston Frontenacs
1991-1992 Cornwall Royals
1992-1993 Newmarket Royals
1993-1994 St. Louis Blues
1994-1995 Vancouver Canucks
1995-1996 New York Rangers
1996-1999 Los Angeles Kings
1999-2000 Lowell Lock Monsters

Nathan LaFayette (born February 17, 1973 in New Westminster , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 219 games for the St. Louis Blues , Vancouver Canucks , New York Rangers and Los Angeles between 1989 and 2000 Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . LaFayette celebrated his greatest career success by winning the gold medal at the Junior World Championship in 1993 .

Career

LaFayette spent his junior years from the summer of 1989 in the Ontario Hockey League , having previously played in the junior leagues for the Toronto Marlboros and Pickering Panthers . During his four seasons in the OHL, the attacker played for three different teams. First he was active one and a half seasons for the Kingston Frontenacs before he was transferred to the Cornwall Royals during the 1990/91 season . There he played until the summer of 1992. Within his first three years, he won the Bobby Smith Trophy in 1991 and 1992 , which was awarded to the player who best paired good performance with academic success over the course of the season. At the end of the 1991/92 season, he also won the Canadian Hockey League's Scholastic Player of the Year Award . In the election, he prevailed against his rivals Ashley Buckberger from the Western Hockey League and Simon Toupin from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec .

LaFayette in the jersey of the Los Angeles Kings

After the Cornwall Royals moved to Newmarket , LaFayette played his last junior season with the Newmarket Royals . The striker then moved to the professional field for the 1993/94 season . There he was initially active for the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League , which had selected him two years earlier in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft in the third round in 65th position. In parallel, the rookie was used in the course of the game year in the farm team , the Peoria Rivermen , from the International Hockey League . Although the Blues had drafted LaFayette , he did not stay in the franchise for a full season . In exchange for Craig Janney , the center was given to the Vancouver Canucks together with Jeff Brown and Bret Hedican . With this, the Canadian returned to the vicinity of his birthplace New Westminster , which is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Vancouver . In the same season, LaFayette celebrated his greatest success at club level by reaching the final series of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1994 against the New York Rangers .

The fact that the 1994/95 NHL season began late due to a lockout , the center played at the beginning of the year for the Syracuse Crunch , Vancouver's farm team from the American Hockey League . After the resumption of the NHL game operations, he was finally ordered back into the NHL squad. Nevertheless, he did not end the season with the Vancouver Canucks, since he was transferred to the New York Rangers in April 1995, who in return gave goalkeeper Corey Hirsch to Vancouver. In New York the Canadian could not assert himself permanently in the NHL and was in the 1995/96 season for the most part in the roster of the farm team Binghamton Rangers from the AHL. In the course of the game year, another transfer followed in March 1996. This time LaFayette was sent to the Los Angeles Kings as part of a so-called " blockbuster " transfer, which included a total of seven players . While Ray Ferraro , Mattias Norström , Ian Laperrière and a four-round suffrage in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft were sent with him from New York to Los Angeles, Marty McSorley , Jari Kurri and Shane Churla moved to the " Big Apple " .

With the Kings, the right-shooter came back more regularly than with the Rangers in the NHL in the following three years, although he was also unable to establish a permanent establishment. He played a total of 101 games for the Kings, but over the years also came to work for their cooperation partners in the AHL and IHL. So he ran for the Phoenix Roadrunners , Syracuse Crunch, Fredericton Canadiens and Long Beach Ice Dogs . LaFayette played his last professional season in the 1999/2000 season with the Lowell Lock Monsters from the AHL, before he declared his time as an active player due to numerous concussions at the age of 27 for over.

International

For his home country, LaFayette was on the ice at the 1993 Junior World Championships in Sweden . He was used in all seven tournament games for the Canadians. He posted four scorer points, including three goals. At the end of the world title fights, the striker and the team won the gold medal, as they had been victorious in a direct comparison with the Swedes tied on points.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 53 6th 8th 14th 14th 7th 0 1 1 0
1990/91 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 35 13 13 26th 10 - - - - -
1990/91 Cornwall Royals OHL 28 16 22nd 38 25th - - - - -
1991/92 Cornwall Royals OHL 66 28 45 73 26th 6th 2 5 7th 16
1992/93 Newmarket Royals OHL 58 49 38 87 26th 7th 4th 6th 10 19th
1993/94 Peoria Rivermen IHL 27 13 11 24 20th - - - - -
1993/94 St. Louis Blues NHL 38 2 3 5 14th - - - - -
1993/94 Vancouver Canucks NHL 11 1 1 2 4th 20th 2 7th 9 4th
1994/95 Syracuse crunch AHL 27 9 9 18th 10 - - - - -
1994/95 Vancouver Canucks NHL 27 4th 4th 8th 2 - - - - -
1994/95 New York Rangers NHL 12 0 0 0 0 8th 0 0 0 2
1995/96 Binghamton Rangers AHL 57 21st 27 48 32 - - - - -
1995/96 New York Rangers NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1995/96 Los Angeles Kings NHL 12 2 4th 6th 6th - - - - -
1996/97 Phoenix Roadrunners IHL 31 2 5 7th 16 - - - - -
1996/97 Syracuse crunch AHL 26th 14th 11 25th 18th 3 1 0 1 2
1996/97 Los Angeles Kings NHL 15th 1 3 4th 8th - - - - -
1997/98 Fredericton Canadiens AHL 28 7th 8th 15th 36 - - - - -
1997/98 Los Angeles Kings NHL 34 5 3 8th 32 4th 0 0 0 0
1998/99 Long Beach Ice Dogs IHL 41 9 13 22nd 24 7th 1 0 1 8th
1998/99 Los Angeles Kings NHL 33 2 2 4th 35 - - - - -
1999/00 Lowell Lock Monsters AHL 42 7th 15th 22nd 33 - - - - -
OHL total 240 112 126 238 101 20th 6th 12 18th 35
AHL total 180 58 70 128 129 3 1 0 1 2
IHL total 99 24 29 53 60 7th 1 0 1 8th
NHL overall 187 17th 20th 37 103 32 2 7th 9 8th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1993 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 3 1 4th 0
Juniors overall 7th 3 1 4th 0

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME LaFayette, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH New Westminster , British Columbia