Paul Cyr

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CanadaCanada  Paul Cyr Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 31, 1963
place of birth Port Alberni , British Columbia , Canada
date of death May 12, 2012
Place of death Nakusp , British Columbia , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 1st round, 9th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1980-1983 Victoria Cougars
1982-1987 Buffalo Sabers
1987-1988 New York Rangers
1990-1992 Hartford Whalers
1991-1993 Springfield Indians

Paul Andre Cyr (born October 31, 1963 in Port Alberni , British Columbia , † May 12, 2012 in Nakusp , British Columbia) was a Canadian ice hockey player . The left winger played over 400 games for the Buffalo Sabers , New York Rangers and Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League between 1982 and 1992 . With the Canadian U20 national team , he won the first gold medal at junior world championships in the team's history in 1982 .

Career

Paul Cyr ran in his youth for the Nanaimo Clippers in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League , before he moved to the Victoria Cougars in the higher-ranking Western Hockey League (WHL) towards the end of the 1979/80 season. There he won the WHL playoffs for the President's Cup with the team as a rookie before he made his breakthrough personally in the 1981/82 season by recording 108 points in 58 games. He was then considered in the NHL Entry Draft 1982 in ninth position by the Buffalo Sabers . The winger made his debut for the Sabers at the beginning of the following season in the National Hockey League (NHL), but spent the year proportionately with the Cougars in the WHL.

With the beginning of the 1983/84 season, Cyr established himself in the NHL squad of the Sabers and appeared there as a regular scorer. The following three years were his statistically best, so he twice reached the mark of 20 goals and recorded his career best of 51 points in 1985/86. Subsequently, however, his performance declined, so that after only one goal and a template from 20 games in December 1987, including a ten- round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988, he was given to the New York Rangers . In return, the Sabers received Mike Donnelly and a five-round vote for the same draft. In New York, however, the attacker only played 41 games over the next two and a half years and was out most of the time, including the entire 1989/90 season, due to a knee injury.

He returned to the NHL with the Hartford Whalers , who signed him as a free agent in September 1990 . For the team, the Canadian played his last full NHL season, in which he came to 25 points in 70 games, before he was mainly used for the farm team of the Whalers, the Springfield Indians , in the American Hockey League between 1991 and 1993 . Then he ended his career, in which he had played a total of 495 NHL games and recorded 251 points scorer.

After his active career, Cyr settled in Nakusp and died there of heart failure in May 2012 at the age of 48 .

International

At international level, Cyr represented the Canadian U20 national team at the Junior World Championships in 1982 and 1983 . In the first year, the attacker recorded ten scorer points and won the first gold medal for his home country in the history of this competition with the team. In 1983 a third place followed and thus the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1979/80 Victoria Cougars WHL - - - - - - 7th 0 0 0 4th
1980/81 Victoria Cougars WHL 64 36 22nd 58 85 14th 6th 5 11 46
1981 Victoria Cougars Memorial Cup 4th 2 3 5 6th
1981/82 Victoria Cougars WHL 58 52 56 108 167 4th 3 2 5 12
1982/83 Victoria Cougars WHL 20th 21st 22nd 43 61 - - - - - -
1982/83 Buffalo Sabers NHL 37 15th 12 27 –6 59 10 1 3 4th -3 6th
1983/84 Buffalo Sabers NHL 71 16 27 43 -3 52 3 0 1 1 +1 0
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 71 22nd 24 46 –6 63 5 2 2 4th +2 15th
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 71 20th 31 51 +3 120 - - - - - -
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 73 11 16 27 -15 122 - - - - - -
1987/88 Buffalo Sabers NHL 20th 1 1 2 -2 38 - - - - - -
1987/88 New York Rangers NHL 40 4th 13 17th -5 41 - - - - - -
1988/89 New York Rangers NHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
1989/90 not played due to knee injury
1990/91 Hartford Whalers NHL 70 12 13 25th -8th 107 6th 1 0 1 -2 10
1991/92 Springfield Indians AHL 43 11 18th 29 –7 30th 11 0 3 3 -4 12
1991/92 Hartford Whalers NHL 17th 0 3 3 -4 19th - - - - - -
1992/93 Springfield Indians AHL 41 7th 14th 21st -2 44 15th 3 2 5 12
WHL overall 142 109 100 209 313 25th 9 7th 16 62
AHL total 84 18th 32 50 –9 74 26th 3 5 8th 24
NHL overall 471 101 140 241 -46 623 24 4th 6th 10 -2 31

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1982 Canada June World Cup gold medal 7th 4th 6th 10 12
1983 Canada June World Cup Bronze medal 7th 1 3 4th 19th
Juniors overall 14th 5 9 14th 31

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wawmeesh G. Hamilton: Former Alberni NHLer passes away. bclocalnews.com, May 23, 2012, accessed January 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cyr, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cyr, Paul Andre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Alberni , British Columbia , Canada
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2012
Place of death Nakusp , British Columbia , Canada