Patrice Bergeron

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Patrice Bergeron
Date of birth July 24, 1985
place of birth L'Ancienne-Lorette , Quebec , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 37
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 2nd round, 45th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
2001-2003 Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst
since 2003 Boston Bruins
2012 HC Lugano

Patrice Bergeron-Cleary (born July 24, 1985 in L'Ancienne-Lorette , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . The center has been under contract with the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League since 2003 and won the Stanley Cup with the team in 2011 . He is considered the epitome of the defensively oriented attacker and has therefore already been awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy four times as the best defensive striker in the NHL. With the Canadian national team he became Olympic champion in 2010 and 2014 and also won the gold medal at the 2004 World Cup , so that he has been a member of the Triple Gold Club since 2011 .

Career

Patrice Bergeron began his career in 2001 in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec with the Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst , where he played four games in his first season. In his second year he played continuously for the team and got 73 points in 70 games, which he was able to convince the scouts of the National Hockey League , so that he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 by the Boston Bruins in the second round at position 45.

Boston Bruins (since 2003)

Bergeron was directly in his rookie - 2003/04 prevail in the Bruins, scoring 39 points scorer. Since the 2004/05 season was canceled because of the lockout , he played with the Providence Bruins , the farm team from Boston in the American Hockey League . The following year , the attacker played alongside Brad Boyes and Marco Sturm and with 73 points scored the most offensive season of his NHL career to date. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season , Patrice Bergeron was appointed one of the assistant captains of the Bruins and was able to achieve 22 goals in 77 games and prepare 48 more. In October 2007 Bergeron received a check from opponent Randy Jones in the game against the Philadelphia Flyers and then hit the gang with his head hard, whereupon he was unconscious on the ice for several minutes and was treated. Afterwards, Bergeron was diagnosed with a broken nose and a third-degree concussion, which meant an early season off for him.

Bergeron in the game against the New Jersey Devils (2009)

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , the Canadian suffered another concussion in the game against the Carolina Hurricanes and then had to take a month off. He finished the season with 39 scorer points from 64 season games. In January 2011 he managed the first hat trick of his NHL career in a 6-0 win against the Ottawa Senators . In the playoffs , Bergeron was instrumental in his team's Stanley Cup victory with 20 points from 23 games and his winning goal in the decisive game of the final series against the Vancouver Canucks . By winning the title, Bergeron was accepted into the Triple Gold Club and received the Frank J. Selke Trophy as a striker with the best defensive behavior after the season .

For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season , Bergeron played from October 2012 for HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A and was able to mark 29 points scorer in 21 appearances. After the end of the player strike, he returned to the Bruins and was able to convince again with strong performances in the playoffs , so that he and his team reached the Stanley Cup final again. In the final series they were defeated by the Chicago Blackhawks , with Bergeron playing all games despite several serious injuries and receiving a lot of recognition for it. In the summer of 2013, the Bruins extended his contract by eight years for a total reported salary of $ 52 million. In the 2013/14 season , the attacker was involved in the successful performance of his team in the main round with 30 hits and 32 scorer points and after the season he again received the Frank J. Selke Trophy and the NHL Foundation Player Award for his charitable work. During the summer break, EA Sports announced that Bergeron would appear on the cover of NHL 15 .

In February 2019, Bergeron played his 1,000th NHL regular season game.

International

Bergeron made his international debut at the World Cup , where he won the gold medal with the Canadian national team . In the following year he played for the U20 team at the U20 Junior World Championship and was both the best and most valuable player in the tournament with 13 points when his team won the tournament. Furthermore, Bergeron is the first player to first win the senior title and only then to become junior world champion.

This was followed by participation in the World Cup, where Bergeron was the second best offensive player of the tournament with 14 points scorer behind his teammate Sidney Crosby and only finished fourth with the team. In December 2009, the attacker was nominated for the Canadian line-up at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , but was only used to a limited extent at the tournament and was mostly on the ice in outnumbered situations and when playing in his own third.

At the Spengler Cup 2012 , Bergeron took part for Team Canada and scored a total of four points in the 7-2 final win against HC Davos . In 2014 he was again Olympic champion with the Canadian national team. He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst LHJMQ 4th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2002/03 Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst LHJMQ 70 23 50 73 62 11 6th 9 15th 6th
2003/04 Boston Bruins NHL 71 16 23 39 22nd 7th 1 3 4th 0
2004/05 Providence Bruins AHL 68 21st 40 61 59 16 5 7th 12 4th
2005/06 Boston Bruins NHL 81 31 42 73 22nd - - - - -
2006/07 Boston Bruins NHL 77 22nd 48 70 26th - - - - -
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 10 3 4th 7th 2 - - - - -
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 64 8th 31 39 16 11 0 5 5 11
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 73 19th 33 52 28 13 4th 7th 11 2
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 80 22nd 35 57 26th 23 6th 14th 20th 28
2011/12 Boston Bruins NHL 81 22nd 42 64 20th 7th 0 2 2 8th
2012/13 HC Lugano NLA 21st 11 18th 29 8th - - - - -
2012/13 Boston Bruins NHL 42 10 22nd 32 18th 22nd 9 6th 15th 13
2013/14 Boston Bruins NHL 80 30th 32 62 43 12 3 6th 9 4th
2014/15 Boston Bruins NHL 81 23 32 55 54 - - - - -
2015/16 Boston Bruins NHL 80 32 36 68 49 - - - - -
2016/17 Boston Bruins NHL 79 21st 32 53 24 6th 2 2 4th 2
2017/18 Boston Bruins NHL 64 30th 33 63 26th 11 6th 10 16 2
2018/19 Boston Bruins NHL 65 32 47 79 30th 24 9 8th 17th 12
LHJMQ total 74 23 51 74 62 11 6th 9 15th 6th
NHL overall 1028 321 492 813 396 136 40 63 103 82

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Canada WM 1st place, gold 9 1 0 1 4th
2005 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 5 8th 13 6th
2006 Canada WM 4th Place 9 6th 8th 14th 2
2010 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 7th 0 1 1 2
2014 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 6th 0 2 2 4th
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 6th 4th 3 7th 2
Juniors overall 6th 5 8th 13 6th
Men overall 37 11 14th 25th 13

( 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 : Patrice Bergeron  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bruins.nhl.com Bruins center Patrice Bergeron taken off on stretcher after hit from behind
  2. ↑ scores.espn.go.com Patrice Bergeron has 1st career hat trick as Tim Thomas, Bruins shut out Sens
  3. ↑ bleacherreport.com Stanley Cup Finals 2011: Marchand, Bergeron Key B's First Title in 40 Years
  4. ↑ hockeycanada.ca Bergeron Joins Triple Gold Club With Stanley Cup Triumph
  5. ↑ bruins.nhl.com Bergeron Wins Selke Trophy
  6. ↑ sports.yahoo.com Patrice Bergeron's injury toll: broken rib, torn cartilage, separated shoulder
  7. ↑ torontosun.com Bergeron battles through slew of injuries in Game 6
  8. ↑ bruins.nhl.com Bruins Sign Bergeron to Eight-Year Contract Extension Through 2021-22 Season
  9. ↑ sports.yahoo.com How Patrice Bergeron won the 2014 Selke Trophy
  10. ↑ nhl.com Bergeron receives NHL Foundation Player Award
  11. ↑ sportsnet.ca Bergeron beats out Subban for NHL 15 cover
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Squad of the Boston Bruins in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Bergeron, Patrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergeron-Cleary, Patrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey striker
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH L'Ancienne-Lorette , Quebec