Ric Nattress

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CanadaCanada  Ric Nattress Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 25, 1962
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 2nd lap, 27th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1979-1982 Brantford Alexander
1982-1983 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1982-1985 Canadiens de Montréal
Canadiens de Sherbrooke
1985-1987 St. Louis Blues
1987-1992 Calgary Flames
1992 Toronto Maple Leafs
1992-1993 Philadelphia Flyers

Eric James "Ric" Nattress (born May 25, 1962 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The defender played over 600 games in the National Hockey League between 1982 and 1993 , most of them for the Calgary Flames , with whom he won the 1989 Stanley Cup . He also represented the Canadian national team at the 1991 World Cup and won the silver medal.

Career

Ric Nattress began his junior career with the Brantford Alexanders , for which he played from 1979 in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, the direct predecessor of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) , which was renamed the following year . After his first season in the top junior division of his home province, the defender was selected in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in 27th position by the Canadiens de Montréal . He then spent two more years in Brantford, with 61 scorer points from 59 games in the 1981/82 season, a point average of over 1.0 per game. At the end of the season he made his professional debut with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs , the Canadiens' farm team , in the American Hockey League (AHL).

With the beginning of the 1982/83 season Nattress came regularly for Montréal in the National Hockey League (NHL) for use, but was suspended in the following season due to drug possession for 30 games. He was arrested in his Brantford home with three grams of marijuana and one gram of hashish and was fined $ 150 in the subsequent trial. Originally he was supposed to be banned for the entire 1983/84 season, but the penalty was later reduced. However, the defender had subsequently lost his regular place with the Canadiens, so he spent most of the 1984/85 season with the Canadiens de Sherbrooke in the AHL, where he won the playoffs for the Calder Cup with the team .

After only a little more than three years in the organization of the Canadiens, Nattress was transferred to the St. Louis Blues in October 1985 , where he was regularly used and recorded his career best with 28 points in the 1986/87 season. Then the Blues transferred him to the Calgary Flames and received in return a four-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 and a five-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 . The Canadian spent the next four years in Calgary and celebrated the greatest success of his career by winning the Stanley Cup in the 1989 playoffs . During this time he also took part in the 1991 World Cup with the senior national team of his home country , where he won the silver medal with the team.

In January 1992, the Flames sent him along with Doug Gilmour , Jamie Macoun , Kent Manderville and Rick Wamsley to the Toronto Maple Leafs , who sent Gary Leeman , Oleksandr Hodynjuk , Jeff Reese , Michel Petit and Craig Berube to Calgary. With the Maple Leafs, Nattress only ended the 1991/92 season before joining the Philadelphia Flyers as a free agent in the summer of 1992 . His four-year contract there, however, was paid out early (buy-out) after he had declared his active career in October 1983 after only one season completed for the Flyers for an end. Due to an injury, the Canadian was forced to take this step after suffering injury problems throughout his career and barely being able to play a full season. In total, he had completed 603 NHL games and scored 179 points scorer. After the end of his active career, Nattress was briefly active as an assistant coach for the Hamilton Bulldogs in the AHL, but did not pursue this career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1979/80 Brantford Alexander OMJHL 65 3 21st 24 94 11 1 6th 7th 38
1980/81 Brantford Alexander OHL 51 8th 34 42 106 6th 1 4th 5 19th
1981/82 Brantford Alexander OHL 59 11 50 61 126 11 3 7th 10 17th
1981/82 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL - - - - - - 5 0 1 1 7th
1982/83 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 9 0 4th 4th 16 2 0 0 0 0
1982/83 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 40 1 3 4th +8 19th 3 0 0 0 -2 10
1983/84 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 34 0 12 12 –9 15th - - - - - -
1984/85 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL 72 8th 40 48 37 16 4th 13 17th 20th
1984/85 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 5 0 1 1 -2 2 2 0 0 0 ± 0 2
1985/86 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 4th 20th 24 -8th 52 18th 1 4th 5 +3 24
1986/87 St. Louis Blues NHL 73 6th 22nd 28 -32 24 6th 0 0 0 -3 2
1987/88 Calgary Flames NHL 63 2 13 15th +14 37 6th 1 3 4th ± 0 0
1988/89 Calgary Flames NHL 38 1 8th 9 +12 47 19th 0 3 3 +3 20th
1989/90 Calgary Flames NHL 49 1 14th 15th +14 26th 6th 2 0 2 +2 8th
1990/91 Calgary Flames NHL 58 5 13 18th -1 63 - - - - - -
1991/92 Calgary Flames NHL 18th 0 5 5 ± 0 31 - - - - - -
1991/92 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 36 2 14th 16 -1 32 - - - - - -
1992/93 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 44 7th 10 17th +1 29 - - - - - -
O (MJ) HL total 175 22nd 105 127 326 27 7th 19th 26th 55
AHL total 81 8th 44 52 53 23 4th 14th 18th 27
NHL overall 536 29 135 164 -4 377 67 5 10 15th +3 68

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1991 Canada WM Silver medal 7th 0 1 0 4th
Men overall 7th 0 1 0 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 )

Personal

His son Justin Nattress (* 1984) was also an ice hockey player and briefly played in the International Hockey League , but without establishing himself in the professional field.

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personal data
SURNAME Nattress, Ric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nattress, Eric James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario , Canada