Steve Montador

Steve Montador
Date of birth	December 21, 1979
place of birth	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
date of death	February 15, 2015
Place of death	Mississauga , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1996-1998	North Bay Centennials
1998-1999	Erie Otters
1999-2000	Peterborough Petes
2000-2005	Calgary Flames
2004-2005	Scorpions de Mulhouse
2005-2008	Florida panthers
2008-2009	Anaheim Ducks
2009	Boston Bruins
2009-2011	Buffalo Sabers
2011–2012	Chicago Blackhawks
2012-2013	Rockford IceHogs
2013	KHL Medveščak Zagreb

Steven Richard "Steve" Montador (born December 21, 1979 in Vancouver , British Columbia , † February 15, 2015 in Mississauga , Ontario ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 614 games for Calgary between 1996 and 2013, among other things Flames , Florida Panthers , Anaheim Ducks , Boston Bruins , Buffalo Sabers and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League has played on the position of defender . Montador celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Saint John Flames by winning the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League in 2001.

Career

Montador in the jersey of the Chicago Blackhawks

After a total of five years in the Ontario Hockey League , in which he had played for the North Bay Centennials , Erie Otters and Peterborough Petes , Steve Montador was hired by the Calgary Flames as a free agent in 1999 .

Initially, however, the defender had to be content for three years with the Flames' farm team , the Saint John Flames in the American Hockey League . In the 2001/02 season , the Canadian made his debut in the National Hockey League and was able to score one goal and contribute two assists in his first season. The next year, Montador was already a regular in Calgary. In the 2003/04 season he was only allowed to play in 26 regular season games for his team, but played again regularly after the Flames reached the playoffs. Montador was part of Calgary's team that lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup final .

During the lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season , Montador played like many other NHL players in Europe. For the French first division club HC Mulhouse from Ligue Magnus , he scored eight points in 15 games, including one goal. After returning to Calgary in the 2005/06 season he was given to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Kristian Huselius shortly after the start of the season . After three seasons in which he got significantly more ice age than in Calgary, the Anaheim Ducks signed him in the summer of 2008 as a free agent.

In early March 2009, the Ducks transferred Steve Montador for Petteri Nokelainen to the Boston Bruins . At the end of the season, Montador's contract ran out and he signed a two-year contract with the Buffalo Sabers . For the Sabers, Montador completed two seasons in which he was able to increase his points. On June 29, 2011, the Sabers transferred Montadors transfer rights - around 25 hours before he would have become available as a free agent, unless he had received a new contract by then - in exchange for a performance-based seven-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft to the Chicago Blackhawks . On June 30, 2011, the defense attorney agreed on a four-year contract with the Blackhawks. In June 2013, however, his contract was early paid off by the Blackhawks (buy out) .

He then moved to Croatia to KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the KHL , where he was under contract until October 2013, before it was dissolved due to a serious injury. Montador has since been without a club and has reportedly suffered from depression and anxiety from the aftermath of his serious injury . On February 15, 2015, Montador was found dead at his home in Mississauga . The police ruled out any third-party fault. A neuropathological post-mortem analysis of his brain revealed that Steve Montador was suffering from the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is caused by repeated head butts. Montador, whose family was suing the NHL for reimbursement, had suffered at least three concussions in six months in 2003, at least four in nine months in 2010, and at least four in three months in 2012.

Achievements and Awards

• 2001 Calder Cup win with the Saint John Flames

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	North Bay Centennials	OHL		63	7th	28	35	129		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	North Bay Centennials	OHL		37	5	16	21st	54		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Erie Otters	OHL		26th	3	17th	20th	35		7th	1	1	2	8th
1998/99	Erie Otters	OHL		61	9	33	42	114		5	0	2	2	9
1999/00	Peterborough Petes	OHL		64	14th	42	56	97		5	0	2	2	4th
1999/00	Saint John Flames	AHL		-	-	-	-	-		2	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Saint John Flames	AHL		58	1	6th	7th	95		19th	0	8th	8th	13
2001/02	Saint John Flames	AHL		67	9	16	25th	107		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Calgary Flames	NHL		11	1	2	3	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Saint John Flames	AHL		11	1	7th	8th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Calgary Flames	NHL		50	1	1	2	114		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Calgary Flames	NHL		26th	1	2	3	50		20th	1	2	3	6th
2004/05	Scorpions de Mulhouse	Ligue Magnus		15th	1	7th	8th	69		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Calgary Flames	NHL		7th	1	0	1	11		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Florida panthers	NHL		51	1	5	6th	68		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Florida panthers	NHL		72	1	8th	9	119		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Florida panthers	NHL		73	8th	15th	23	73		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		65	4th	16	20th	125		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Boston Bruins	NHL		13	0	1	1	18th		11	1	2	3	18th
2009/10	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		78	5	18th	23	75		6th	1	0	1	4th
2010/11	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		73	5	21st	26th	83		6th	0	1	1	8th
2011/12	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		52	5	9	14th	45		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		14th	2	3	5	13		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		11	0	3	3	33		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				251	38	136	174	429		17th	1	5	6th	17th
AHL total				150	13	32	45	235		21st	0	8th	8th	13
NHL overall				571	33	98	131	807		43	3	5	8th	36

( 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 : Steve Montador  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Steve Montador at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Steve Montador at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Blackhawks defenseman Steve Montador dead at 35
2. ↑ hockey-news.info Zagreb adds up and gets Steve Montador ( memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ John Branch: Steve Montador Had CTE; Family to Sue NHL The New York Times, May 12, 2015, accessed September 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ NHL Faces Another Lawsuit Over Head Injuries. The New York Times, December 8, 2015, accessed September 12, 2017 .