Mark Recchi

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CanadaCanada  Mark Recchi Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2017
Mark Recchi
Date of birth 1st February 1968
place of birth Kamloops , British Columbia , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
number #8th
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1988 , 4th lap, 67th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1984-1985 Langley Eagles
1985-1986 New Westminster Bruins
1986-1988 Kamloops Blazers
1988-1989 Muskegon Lumberjacks
1989-1992 Pittsburgh Penguins
1992-1994 Philadelphia Flyers
1994-1999 Canadiens de Montréal
1999-2004 Philadelphia Flyers
2004-2006 Pittsburgh Penguins
2006 Carolina Hurricanes
2006-2007 Pittsburgh Penguins
2007-2008 Atlanta Thrashers
2008-2009 Tampa Bay Lightning
2009-2011 Boston Bruins

Mark Louis Recchi (born February 1, 1968 in Kamloops , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach of Italian descent. During his playing career between 1988 and 2011, he played 1841 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Philadelphia Flyers , Canadiens de Has played in the Montréal , Carolina Hurricanes , Atlanta Thrashers , Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League . The right winger is a three-time Stanley Cup winner, world champion and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame . From July 2017 to August 2020 he was most recently an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Career

Recchi in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey (2007).

Mark Recchi began his career in 1984 in the Canadian Junior League British Columbia Junior Hockey League with the Langley Eagles . During his first season he was also in the higher-class junior league Western Hockey League four times for the New Westminster Bruins , to whose regular squad he was part of the following season. Recchi was one of the Bruins' leading forces, but the team did not succeed. He then moved to the Kamloops Blazers in the summer of 1986 within the WHL . There he developed into one of the best players in the league and finished the 1987/88 season as the third best scorer in the WHL with 61 goals and 93 assists in 62 games. In the summer of 1988 he was finally selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round at position 67, after he had been passed over by the teams of the National Hockey League in the previous two years .

Recchi did not make the jump into the NHL squad and played most of the 1988/89 season in the International Hockey League with the Muskegon Lumberjacks , the farm team of Pittsburgh. With Muskegon he won the Turner Cup , the championship trophy of the IHL, at the end of the season , and was top scorer of the playoffs together with teammate Dave Michayluk . In the following year he was finally a permanent member of the Penguins and with 67 points in his rookie season fit in well with the team. Already in the 1990/91 season Recchi was one of the most important players of the team and led the internal scorer list and finished fourth in the league with 113 points behind Wayne Gretzky , Brett Hull and Adam Oates . In the following playoffs he was able to continue his good performance when he contributed ten goals and 24 assists to win the Stanley Cup .

The following season Recchi was again one of the best players in the Pittsburgh Penguins, but was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers on February 19, 1992 . At the end of the season he was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team . 1992/93 Recchi had his best year, scoring 53 goals and preparing 70 more, making him again among the top ten scorers in the league. However, the Flyers missed the playoffs in this and the following season. The 1994/95 season shortened due to the lockout began Recchi in Philadelphia, but was transferred to the Canadiens de Montréal after ten games . In addition to Vincent Damphousse , he was one of the most important performers on the offensive in the following years, before moving back to Philadelphia in March 1999.

With the Flyers he was again in top form and at the end of the 1999/2000 season was the third best scorer in the NHL and led the league with 63 assists. In addition, the Flyers reached the final of the Eastern Conference in the playoffs . As a reward for his achievements, Recchi was nominated for the Lester B. Pearson Award , which the best player of the season receives. Together with the experienced Keith Primeau , Jeremy Roenick and John LeClair as well as the young Simon Gagné , he led the attack of the Flyers in the following years and continued to present himself in good shape.

After the loss of the 2004/05 season due to another lockout, Recchi returned to the Pittsburgh Penguins and thus to the side of Mario Lemieux , with whom he had already played in the early years of his career. He was one of the key performers in the young team around young star Sidney Crosby in the 2005/06 season . However, Recchi was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes in March 2006 after the Penguins had no more chance of qualifying for the playoffs. In Carolina he met again Rod Brind'Amour and Justin Williams , who were already his teammates in Philadelphia, and a few months later they won the Stanley Cup with the Hurricanes.

Recchi (front) in a duel with Tom Gilbert (2009).

Recchi decided after this success to return to Pittsburgh and scored there during the 2006/07 season on January 26, 2007 as the 38th player in NHL history, his 500th goal . Behind the young stars Sidney Crosby and Yevgeny Malkin , he was also the third-best scorer of the Penguins and they reached the playoffs for the first time since 2001.

In June 2007 Recchi extended his expired contract for another year, but he could no longer build on his previous performances, so that he was often not in the squad at the beginning of the 2007/08 season . On December 4, 2007, he was finally put by the Penguins on the waiver list , but no team wanted to sign him. After he was sent to the Penguins' farm team , the management put him back on the list, with the difference that the team that would select him no longer had to pay all of his salary, but only half. He was then selected by the Atlanta Thrashers , where the coaching staff put a lot of trust in him that he would repay with significantly increased performance. Despite the rising form curve, however, he only stayed in Atlanta until the end of the season and switched to division rival Tampa Bay Lightning , which was in upheaval . There he built on his good form, but the team did not achieve the hoped-for upswing and after Tampa Bay was out of the running for the playoff places, he was transferred to the Boston Bruins at the trade deadline in March 2009 , which at the time best team in the Eastern Conference.

On November 24, 2010 Recchi scored his 1500th point in the NHL in the 3-1 of the Bruins against the Florida Panthers . He was the 13th player in league history to cross this line. In the 2010/11 season Recchi won the third Stanley Cup in his career with the Boston Bruins and declared his playing career over after the last final game. In Boston he had last played in the second row with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand .

Recchi had already been active as a trainer in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization since 2014, until he was introduced in the summer of 2017 as the successor to assistant trainer Rick Tocchet, who had migrated to Arizona . In the same year he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . After the 2019/20 season, his contract in Pittsburgh was not renewed.

International

Recchi represented his home country at the Junior World Championships in 1988 , where he won the gold medal. He also denied the World Championships the years 1990 , 1993 and 1997 and the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Japanese Nagano . He also won gold at the 1997 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Langley Eagles BCJHL 51 26th 39 65 39 - - - - -
1984/85 New Westminster Bruins WHL 4th 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
1985/86 New Westminster Bruins WHL 72 21st 40 61 55 - - - - -
1986/87 Kamloops Blazers WHL 40 26th 50 76 63 13 3 16 19th 17th
1987/88 Kamloops Blazers WHL 62 61 93 154 75 17th 10 21st 31 18th
1988/89 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 63 50 49 99 86 14th 7th 14th 21st 28
1988/89 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 15th 1 1 2 0 - - - - -
1989/90 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 74 30th 37 67 44 - - - - -
1989/90 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 4th 7th 4th 11 2 - - - - -
1990/91 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 40 73 113 48 24 10 24 34 33
1991/92 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 33 37 70 78 - - - - -
1991/92 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 22nd 10 17th 27 18th - - - - -
1992/93 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 84 53 70 123 95 - - - - -
1993/94 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 84 40 67 107 46 - - - - -
1994/95 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 10 2 3 5 12 - - - - -
1994/95 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 39 14th 29 43 16 - - - - -
1995/96 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 82 28 50 78 69 6th 3 3 6th 0
1996/97 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 82 34 46 80 58 5 4th 2 6th 2
1997/98 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 82 32 42 74 51 10 4th 8th 12 6th
1998/99 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 61 12 35 47 28 - - - - -
1998/99 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 10 4th 2 6th 6th 6th 0 1 1 2
1999/00 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 28 63 91 50 18th 6th 12 18th 6th
2000/01 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 69 27 50 77 33 6th 2 2 4th 2
2001/02 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 22nd 42 64 46 4th 0 0 0 3
2002/03 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 79 20th 32 52 35 13 7th 3 10 2
2003/04 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 26th 49 75 47 18th 4th 2 6th 4th
2004/05 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 63 24 33 57 56 - - - - -
2005/06 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 20th 4th 3 7th 12 25th 7th 9 16 18th
2006/07 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 82 24 44 68 62 5 0 4th 4th 0
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 19th 2 6th 8th 12 - - - - -
2007/08 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 53 12 28 40 20th - - - - -
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 62 13 32 45 20th - - - - -
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 18th 10 6th 16 2 11 3 3 6th 2
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 81 18th 25th 43 34 13 6th 4th 10 6th
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 81 14th 34 48 35 25th 5 9 14th 8th
BCJHL total 51 26th 39 65 39 - - - - -
WHL overall 178 109 183 292 193 30th 13 37 50 35
IHL total 67 57 53 110 88 14th 7th 14th 21st 28
NHL overall 1652 577 956 1533 1033 189 61 86 147 93

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1988 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 5 5 4th
1990 Canada WM 4th Place 5 0 2 2 2
1993 Canada WM 4th Place 8th 2 5 7th 2
1997 Canada WM 1st place, gold 9 3 3 6th 0
1998 Canada Olympia 4th Place 5 0 2 2 0
Juniors overall 7th 0 5 5 4th
Men overall 27 5 12 17th 4th

( 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 : Mark Recchi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ niashf.org, Mark Recchi - National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
  2. ↑ bruins.nhl.com, Recchi Racks Up 1500 Points
personal data
SURNAME Recchi, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Recchi, Mark Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamloops , British Columbia