Stacy Roest

Stacy Roest
Date of birth	March 15, 1974
place of birth	Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada
size	177 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1990-1995	Medicine Hat Tigers
1995-1998	Adirondack Red Wings
1998-2000	Detroit Red Wings
2000-2002	Minnesota Wild
2002-2003	Grand Rapids Griffins
2003-2012	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

Stacy Roest (* 15. March 1974 in Lethbridge , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player (center), who recently for Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in the Swiss National League A played.

Career

As a junior he played from 1990 in the Western Hockey League for the Medicine Hat Tigers . Despite good performance there, he was not selected by the NHL teams in the NHL Entry Draft . In 1994 the Detroit Red Wings signed him for their farm team in the American Hockey League , the Adirondack Red Wings .

In the 1998/99 season he was used for the first time in the National Hockey League . After two seasons and over 100 missions, he moved to the Minnesota Wild for the 2000/01 season . There, too, he was mostly in the squad of the NHL team, but did not make the big breakthrough. For the 2002/03 season he returned to Detroit, but came only to two missions with the Red Wings. Mostly he was used again in the AHL at the Grand Rapids Griffins .

For the 2003/04 season Stacy Roest came to Switzerland and played in the National League A for the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers and took part in the Spengler Cup several times with Team Canada . After a total of nine years with the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, Roest ended his career at the age of 38 in April 2012.

Achievements and Awards

• 1994 WHL East First All-Star Team
• 1995 WHL East Second All-Star Team
• 1998 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2011 top scorer of the NLA

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	5	244	28	48	76	54
Playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	0

Web links

• Stacy Roest at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Stacy Roest at hockeydb.com (English)
• Stacy Roest at eurohockey.com