Richard Matvichuk

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CanadaCanada  Richard Matvichuk Ice hockey player
Date of birth 5th February 1973
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 191 cm
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 1st round, 8th position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1989-1992 Saskatoon Blades
1992-1993 Minnesota North Stars
1993-2005 Dallas Stars
2005-2007 New Jersey Devils
2007-2008 Lowell Devils

Richard Dorian Matvichuk (born February 5, 1973 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and official as well as current coach , who played 919 games for the Minnesota North Stars , Dallas Stars and in the course of his active career between 1989 and 2008 New Jersey Devils has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . Matvichuk celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Dallas Stars by winning the Stanley Cup in 1999 . He then coached teams in the Central Hockey League , ECHL and Western Hockey League .

Career

Richard Matvichuk began his career as a hockey player with the Saskatoon Blades , for which he was active from 1989 to 1992 in the Canadian junior league Western Hockey League . During this period he was selected in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft in the first round as the eighth player by the Minnesota North Stars . For Minnesota, the defender scored two goals in 53 games in his rookie year in the National Hockey League in the 1992/93 season and made three assists. Even after the franchise moved to Dallas and renamed Dallas Stars , he remained loyal to the stars. As in Minnesota, he ran in his first two years with the Texans in parallel for their farm team , the Kalamazoo Wings from the International Hockey League .

With the Dallas Stars, Matvichuk achieved his greatest success in the 1998/99 season when he won the Stanley Cup with his team . After spending a total of twelve years in the Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars franchise, the Canadian signed a contract with their league rivals New Jersey Devils as a free agent on July 12, 2004 . During the subsequent lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season, Matvichuk paused with ice hockey - he signed a contract with HC Slovan Bratislava , but did not play a game for the team. From 2005 to 2007, the former international was exclusively for New Jersey in the NHL on the ice, although he could complete only one game of the regular season in the 2006/07 season due to a back injury. After a season in the farm team from the American Hockey League New Jerseys, the Lowell Devils , he ended his active career in 2008 at the age of 35.

From the 2012/13 season Matvichuk worked as assistant coach and general manager of the Allen Americans in the Central Hockey League . After two years there, the Canadian was head coach and director of hockey operations of the Missouri Mavericks from the ECHL at the beginning of the 2014/15 season . In 2016, he was honored with the John Brophy Award for the league's best coach and the ECHL General Manager of the Year Award . For the 2016/17 season he moved to the head coach of the Prince George Cougars from the Western Hockey League. There he was released from his duties during the 2018/19 season after more than two years of work.

International

For Canada , Matvichuk took part in the 1992 World Junior Championship and the 2002 World Championship . He finished both tournaments with the team in sixth place.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1988/89 Fort Saskatchewan Traders AJHL 58 7th 36 43 147 - - - - -
1989/90 Saskatoon Blades WHL 56 8th 24 32 126 10 2 8th 10 16
1990/91 Saskatoon Blades WHL 68 13 36 49 117 - - - - -
1991/92 Saskatoon Blades WHL 58 14th 40 54 126 22nd 1 9 10 61
1992/93 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 3 0 1 1 6th - - - - -
1992/93 Minnesota North Stars NHL 53 2 3 5 26th - - - - -
1993/94 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 43 8th 17th 25th 84 - - - - -
1993/94 Dallas Stars NHL 25th 0 3 3 22nd 7th 1 1 2 12
1994/95 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 17th 0 6th 6th 16 - - - - -
1994/95 Dallas Stars NHL 14th 0 2 2 14th 5 0 2 2 4th
1995/96 Dallas Stars NHL 73 6th 16 22nd 71 - - - - -
1996/97 Dallas Stars NHL 57 5 7th 12 87 7th 0 1 1 20th
1997/98 Dallas Stars NHL 74 3 15th 18th 63 16 1 1 2 14th
1998/99 Dallas Stars NHL 64 3 9 12 51 22nd 1 5 6th 20th
1999/00 Dallas Stars NHL 70 4th 21st 25th 42 23 2 5 7th 14th
2000/01 Dallas Stars NHL 78 4th 16 20th 62 10 0 0 0 14th
2001/02 Dallas Stars NHL 82 9 12 21st 52 - - - - -
2002/03 Dallas Stars NHL 68 1 5 6th 58 12 0 3 3 8th
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 75 1 20th 21st 36 5 0 1 1 8th
2004/05 New Jersey Devils NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 New Jersey Devils NHL 62 1 10 11 40 7th 0 0 0 4th
2006/07 New Jersey Devils NHL 1 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 10
2007/08 Lowell Devils AHL 42 1 3 4th 40 - - - - -
WHL overall 182 35 100 135 369 32 3 17th 20th 77
IHL total 63 8th 24 32 106 - - - - -
NHL overall 796 39 139 178 624 123 5 19th 24 128

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1992 Canada June World Cup 6th place 4th 0 0 0 2
2002 Canada WM 6th place 7th 1 0 1 6th
Juniors overall 4th 0 0 0 2
Men overall 7th 1 0 1 6th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Matvichuk, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matvichuk, Richard Dorian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta, Canada