Peter Sidorkiewicz

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CanadaCanada PolandPoland  Peter Sidorkiewicz Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 29, 1963
place of birth Dąbrowa Białostocka , Poland
size 175 cm
Weight 82 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 5th round, 91st position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
1980-1984 Oshawa Generals
1984-1988 Binghamton Whalers
1988-1992 Hartford Whalers
1992-1993 Ottawa Senators
1993-1998 Albany River Rats
1994-1995 Fort Wayne Comet

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Peter Sidorkiewicz (born June 29, 1963 in Dąbrowa Białostocka ) is a former Canadian - Polish ice hockey goalkeeper and current coach , who played for the Hartford Whalers , Ottawa Senators and New Jersey Devils in National Hockey from 1980 to 1995 League has played.

Career

Peter Sidorkiewicz emigrated to Canada with his family as a teenager . He began his career as a hockey player with the Oshawa Generals , for whom he was active from 1980 to 1984 in the junior league Ontario Hockey League . With the Generals, he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup in the 1982/83 season and was elected to the All-Star Team in the subsequent Memorial Cup , the final tournament for the championship of the Canadian Hockey League . He also received the Dave Pinkney Trophy for the lowest average goal conceded in the OHL. In the 1981 NHL Entry Draft , the goalkeeper was selected in the fifth round as a total of 91st player by the Washington Capitals , for which he never played. Instead, after he had started the 1984/85 season with the Fort Wayne Komets from the International Hockey League , he was given to the Hartford Whalers on March 12, 1985 together with Dean Evason in exchange for David Jensen .

In his first four years in the Hartford Whalers franchise , Sidorkiewicz played almost exclusively for their farm team , the Binghamton Whalers from the American Hockey League , before making his debut in the National Hockey League for Hartford towards the end of the 1987/88 season . In the following four seasons, the native Pole stood regularly for the Hartford Whalers in the NHL between the posts before he was committed on June 18, 1992 in the NHL Expansion Draft by the newly formed Ottawa Senators . In Ottawa he played a good first season, after which he was nominated in 1993 for the NHL All-Star Game .

In the summer of 1993 Sidorkiewicz moved to the New Jersey Devils , for whom he completed only four games in the NHL in the following five years, while he was with their AHL farm team, the Albany River Rats , as well as the 1994/95 season his ex-club Fort Wayne Komets from the IHL. Following the 1997/98 season, he ended his active career at the age of 34.

From 1999 to 2011 he worked for the Erie Otters from the Ontario Hockey League. First he was an assistant coach for seven years before he was promoted to head coach of the Otters. During the 2007/08 season he was replaced in this position by Robbie Ftorek and then moved back into the second tier as an assistant coach.

International

For Canada he took part in the 1989 World Cup, where he won the silver medal with his team. As a substitute goalkeeper, he was used during the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Victories Defeats draw Shutouts
Regular season 8th 246 79 128 27 8th
Playoffs 3 15th 5 10 0 0

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personal data
SURNAME Sidorkiewicz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Polish ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dąbrowa Białostocka , Poland