Richard Park

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Richard Park
Date of birth May 27, 1976
place of birth Seoul , South Korea
size 180 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1994 , 2nd lap, 50th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1992-1995 Belleville Bulls
1995-1996 Pittsburgh Penguins
1996-1997 Cleveland Lumberjacks
1997-1998 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
1998-1999 Philadelphia Phantoms
1999-2000 Utah grizzlies
2000-2001 Cleveland Lumberjacks
2001-2004 Minnesota Wild
2004-2005 Malmo Redhawks
SCL Tigers
2005-2006 Vancouver Canucks
2006-2010 New York Islanders
2010-2011 HC Servette Genève
2011–2012 Pittsburgh Penguins
2012-2014 HC Ambrì-Piotta

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Richard Park ( Korean 박용수 , Bak Yong-su ; born May 27, 1976 in Seoul ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach with South Korean citizenship. During his playing career between 1992 and 2014, he played 778 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , Philadelphia Flyers , Minnesota Wild , Vancouver Canucks and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League as the right winger . Park was only the second Korean-born NHL player after Jim Paek , who had also been drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1985 .

Career

Park immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of three, and ten years later the family moved to Ontario , Canada , where Park, now a US national, began playing ice hockey. At the age of 16, the 1.80 m tall striker joined the Belleville Bulls from the Canadian Junior League OHL , in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft he was finally selected ( drafted ) as 50th in the second round by the Pittsburgh Penguins .

For the pens he completed his first NHL appearances in the 1994/95 season , and during his time in Pittsburgh Park was also on the ice for the Penguins farm team , the Cleveland Lumberjacks , in the International Hockey League . In his other stations, the right-handed shooter did not get beyond the role of a supplementary player, for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Philadelphia Flyers he played a total of only 44 games in five years. It was only with his move to the Minnesota Wild in the 2001/02 season Park became a regular NHL player, in 2002/03 he completed over 80 season games for the first time and achieved a new personal record with 24 points in the regular season.

During the lockout in the 2004-05 season Park played for both the Malmo Redhawks in the Swedish Elitserien and for the SCL Tigers in the Swiss National League A . Back in the National Hockey League, the American moved as a free agent to the Vancouver Canucks , through which he came to the NY Islanders for the 2006/07 season .

In September 2010 he signed a contract with HC Servette Genève in the Swiss National League A . In his first season for Servette, he scored 17 goals and 20 assists in a total of 50 games. On September 2nd, 2011 it was announced that HC Servette Genève and Park had agreed to terminate the contract. A few days later, Park signed a one-year two-way deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

In 2012 he signed a two-year contract with the Swiss HC Ambrì-Piotta and was one of the top performers there in the following two game years. In 2014 he ended his career and switched to the coaching staff of the Minnesota Wild.

International

With the US national ice hockey team , Park won the bronze medal at the 2004 World Cup . He also took part in the 2002 , 2005 and 2006 World Championships for the USA , with the latter as team captain. In addition, the winger won the 2004 Germany Cup with Team USA .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 Belleville Bulls OHL 66 23 38 61 38 5 0 0 0 14th
1993/94 Belleville Bulls OHL 59 27 49 76 70 12 3 5 8th 18th
1994/95 Belleville Bulls OHL 45 28 51 79 35 16 9 18th 27 12
1994/95 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 1 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 2
1995/96 Belleville Bulls OHL 6th 7th 6th 13 2 14th 18th 12 30th 10
1995/96 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 56 4th 6th 10 36 1 0 0 0 0
1996/97 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 50 12 15th 27 30th - - - - -
1996/97 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 1 0 0 0 0
1996/97 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 11 1 1 2 10 11 0 1 1 2
1997/98 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 56 17th 26th 43 306 - - - - -
1997/98 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 15th 0 2 2 8th - - - - -
1998/99 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 75 41 42 83 33 16 9 6th 15th 4th
1998/99 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 7th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1999/00 Utah grizzlies IHL 82 28 32 60 36 5 1 0 1 0
2000/01 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 75 27 21st 48 29 4th 0 2 2 4th
2001/02 Houston Eros AHL 13 4th 10 14th 6th - - - - -
2001/02 Minnesota Wild NHL 63 10 15th 25th 10 - - - - -
2002/03 Minnesota Wild NHL 81 14th 10 24 16 18th 3 3 6th 4th
2003/04 Minnesota Wild NHL 73 13 12 25th 28 - - - - -
2004/05 Malmo Redhawks Elitserien 9 1 3 4th 4th - - - - -
2004/05 SCL Tigers NLA 10 3 0 3 8th 6 1 4th 1 5 6th
2005/06 Vancouver Canucks NHL 60 8th 10 18th 29 - - - - -
2006/07 New York Islanders NHL 82 10 16 26th 33 5 0 1 1 2
2007/08 New York Islanders NHL 82 12 20th 32 20th - - - - -
2008/09 New York Islanders NHL 71 14th 17th 31 34 - - - - -
2009/10 New York Islanders NHL 81 9 22nd 31 28 - - - - -
2010/11 HC Servette Genève NLA 47 15th 19th 34 16 3 2 1 3 2
2011/12 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 54 7th 7th 14th 12 2 0 1 1 2
2012/13 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 48 9 22nd 31 18th 5 1 1 2 3 0
2013/14 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 41 12 17th 29 22nd 4th 1 0 1 29
OHL total 176 85 144 229 145 47 30th 35 65 54
IHL total 207 67 68 135 95 9 1 2 3 4th
AHL total 144 62 78 140 75 16 9 6th 15th 4th
NHL overall 738 102 139 241 266 40 3 6th 9 12
NLA total 146 39 58 97 64 18th 8th 4th 12 37

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1994 United States June World Cup 6th place 7th 3 2 5 4th
1995 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 1 7th 8th 29
2002 United States WM 7th place 7th 3 3 6th 0
2004 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 9 5 3 8th 0
2005 United States WM 6th place 5 1 0 1 0
2006 United States WM 7th place 7th 1 1 2 0
Juniors overall 14th 4th 9 13 33
Men overall 28 10 7th 17th 0

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/08/07/Eishockey/Ambri-Piotta-holt-Richard-Park
personal data
SURNAME Park, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 박용수 (Korean name, Hangeul); Bak Yong-su (Korean name, revised Romanization); Pak Yongsu (Korean name, McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-South Korean ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea