Peter Worrell

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CanadaCanada  Peter Worrell Ice hockey player
Date of birth 18th August 1977
place of birth Pierrefonds , Québec , Canada
size 201 cm
Weight 125 kg
position Left wing
number # 9
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 7th round, 166th position
Florida Panthers
Career stations
1994-1997 Olympiques de Hull
1997-2003 Florida panthers
2003-2004 Colorado Avalanche
2005-2006 Charlotte Checkers

Peter Worrell (born August 18, 1977 in Pierrefonds , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played for the Florida Panthers and Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League as the left winger between 1997 and 2004 . During this time he was considered one of the most feared enforcers in the league. He currently coaches the Florida Atlantic University ice hockey teams .

Career

As a teenager, Peter Worrell played three seasons for the Olympiques de Hull in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . During this time he was able to win the championship in 1995 and 1997 . In 1997, he and his team won the Memorial Cup . His 464 penalty minutes from the 1995/96 season are the fifth most in the history of the LHJMQ.

In the NHL Entry Draft 1995 he was selected in the seventh round in a total of 166th place by the Florida Panthers , he made his professional debut at the beginning of the 1997/98 season for their farm team , the Beast of New Haven from the American Hockey League . Later in the season , the winger was ordered to Florida and completed 19 games for the Panthers by the end of the season, in which he could not score but collect 153 penalty minutes. His first goal in the National Hockey League he scored the following season on February 8, 1999 in a game against the St. Louis Blues .

In the 1999/2000 season he was involved in an incident with defenseman Scott Niedermayer of the New Jersey Devils . After a collision with Niedermayer, in which the defender got Worrell's elbow in the face, Niedermayer hit Worrell on the head with his bat, whereupon a scuffle ensued between the two teams and Worrell made a gesture in the direction of Niedermayer, as if he were cutting his throat. The multi-award-winning All-Star Scott Niedermayer was then banned from the NHL for ten games for hitting with the bat. Worrell missed the Panthers a game because of headaches, dizziness, and nausea.

On July 18, 2003, the striker was transferred together with a second-round draft pick for the NHL Entry Draft 2004 to Denver to the Colorado Avalanche , Florida received in return Éric Messier and Václav Nedorost . Due to a knee injury, he missed Colorado the first 27 games of the 2003/04 season . The player finished the season at the Avalanche with only four points in 49 games, but for the first and only time in his career with a positive plus / minus rating.

During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , he was not looking for a team, but considered himself as resigned from the sport. After the lockout ended, he still signed a contract with the New York Rangers , who sent him to their farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack from the AHL. He never played for the Wolf Pack, but was sent one league deeper to the Charlotte Checkers in the ECHL . At the Checkers he played in 37 games and then ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Olympiques de Hull LHJMQ 56 1 8th 9 243 21st 0 1 1 91
1995/96 Olympiques de Hull LHJMQ 63 23 36 59 464 18th 11 8th 19th 81
1996/97 Olympiques de Hull LHJMQ 62 18th 45 63 495 14th 3 13 16 83
1997/98 Beast of New Haven AHL 50 15th 12 27 309 1 0 1 1 6th
1997/98 Florida panthers NHL 19th 0 0 0 153 - - - - -
1998/99 Beast of New Haven AHL 10 3 1 4th 64 - - - - -
1998/99 Florida panthers NHL 62 4th 5 9 258 - - - - -
1999/00 Florida panthers NHL 48 3 6th 9 169 4th 1 0 1 8th
2000/01 Florida panthers NHL 71 3 7th 10 248 - - - - -
2001/02 Florida panthers NHL 79 4th 5 9 354 - - - - -
2002/03 Florida panthers NHL 63 2 3 5 193 - - - - -
2003/04 Colorado Avalanche NHL 49 3 1 4th 179 - - - - -
2005/06 Charlotte Checkers ECHL 37 7th 8th 15th 139 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 181 41 90 131 1144 53 14th 22nd 36 255
AHL total 60 18th 13 31 374 1 0 1 1 6th
NHL overall 391 19th 27 46 1554 4th 1 0 1 8th

( 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 )

racism

Throughout his career, the Afro-Canadian has faced racist comments, actions and gestures from both fans and players. In his youth, objects flew into the box when he was in the penalty box, spectators shouted racist slogans, and others held up signs with xenophobic texts.

In a game against the Washington Capitals in 1997, opponent Craig Berube referred to him as a "monkey", Berube then received a ban from the NHL from one game. In a 1998 game against the Tampa Bay Lightning , Darcy Tucker and Sandy McCarthy made ape-like gestures towards Worrell during the game, according to Florida Panthers officials, when all three players were in their respective penalty boxes. Tucker is also said to have called Worrell a "big ape". The NHL investigated the incident, but the players were acquitted of all allegations due to lack of evidence.

That same year, the Philadelphia Flyers accused Chris Gratton of denigrating Worrell by a newspaper reporter. Peter Worrell later testified that he had heard nothing and all charges against Gratton were dropped.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b echl.com, Worrell Pays Dues, Teaches With Checkers
  2. ↑ sun-sentinel.com Former Panther Peter Worrell to coach FAU hockey team
  3. ↑ legendsofhockey.net Peter Worrell
  4. ↑ nytimes.com Devils Lose Niedermayer to Suspension and Fall to Hurricanes
  5. ↑ a b books.google.com Cecil Harris: "Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey"
  6. ↑ chicagotribune.com Rash Of Racial Slurs Hits League
  7. ↑ sun-sentinel.com Panthers Say Tampa Players Used Racial Slurs, Gestures
  8. ↑ sun-sentinel.com Nhl: Worrell Case Closed
personal data
SURNAME Worrell, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Pierrefonds , Québec , Canada