Steve Rucchin

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CanadaCanada  Steve Rucchin Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th July 1971
place of birth Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 98 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Supplemental Draft 1994 , 1st round, 2nd position
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
1990-1994 University of Western Ontario
1994-1995 San Diego Gulls
1995-2005 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
2005-2006 New York Rangers
2006-2007 Atlanta Thrashers

Steve Andrew Rucchin (born July 4, 1971 in Thunder Bay , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player of Italian descent who played 772 games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , New York Rangers and Atlanta Thrashers between 1990 and 2007 has contested in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Rucchin spent most of his career with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, whose fourth team captain in franchise history he was between 2003 and 2005. His brother Larry was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Steve Rucchin played in his youth at the Frederick Banting Broncos , the ice hockey team of Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London in the province of Ontario . When he began studying biology at the University of Western Ontario in 1990 , he also went on the ice for their ice hockey team in the Ontario Universities Athletics Association (OUAA), a division in the game operations of the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union (CIAU). In the 1994 NHL Supplemental Draft , Rucchin was selected in the first round in second place overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim .

The 1994/95 season , which began later due to the strike and he started in the International Hockey League with the San Diego Gulls , but then quickly found his regular place in the NHL. Until 2004 he remained a pillar of the Mighty Ducks, where he played as a center at times in a series with Paul Kariya and Teemu Selänne and came to 67 points scorer in the 1996/97 season . From 2003 he was also the team captain of the Ducks. He had played most of the games for Anaheim when he moved and was second behind Kariya in all of the Ducks' all-time scorer ratings. During the canceled 2004/05 season he took a break from professional ice hockey and did not, like many other players, accept an offer from a team from Europe or a minor league .

In August 2005, Rucchin was given in a barter for Trevor Gillies and a four-round suffrage in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft to the New York Rangers . However, he left the team after a year as a free agent and joined the Atlanta Thrashers . In the 2006/07 season , the attacker missed the last 25 regular season games due to a head injury. In the following season, however, he did not play another game for the Thrashers, as a concussion and its aftermath put him out of action for the entire season. These injuries eventually forced Rucchin to retire.

Rucchin was regarded as a solid two-way center , whose strengths included his good face-off skills and his outnumbered game . As a leading player, the attacker also had above-average passing quality. His not fully developed scorer qualities and injuries in the late autumn of his career were considered a weakness .

International

Rucchin took part with Team Canada in the 1998 World Cup and finished sixth with the team. In six games, the attacker scored three points for his home country.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 University of Western Ontario OUAA 34 13 16 29 14th
1991/92 University of Western Ontario OUAA 37 28 34 62 36
1992/93 University of Western Ontario OUAA 34 22nd 26th 48 16
1993/94 University of Western Ontario OUAA 35 30th 23 53 30th
1994/95 San Diego Gulls IHL 41 11 15th 26th 14th - - - - -
1994/95 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 43 6th 11 17th 23 - - - - -
1995/96 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 64 19th 25th 44 12 - - - - -
1996/97 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 79 19th 48 67 24 8th 1 2 3 10
1997/98 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 72 17th 36 53 13 - - - - -
1998/99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 69 23 39 62 22nd 4th 0 3 3 0
1999/00 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 71 19th 38 57 16 - - - - -
2000/01 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 16 3 5 8th 0 - - - - -
2001/02 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 38 7th 16 23 6th - - - - -
2002/03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 82 20th 38 58 12 21st 7th 3 10 2
2003/04 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 82 20th 23 43 12 - - - - -
2004/05 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 New York Rangers NHL 72 13 23 36 10 4th 1 0 1 0
2006/07 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 47 5 16 21st 14th - - - - -
CIAU total 140 93 99 192 96
NHL overall 735 171 318 489 164 37 9 8th 17th 12

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Canada WM 6th place 6th 1 2 3 2
Men overall 6th 1 2 3 2

( 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. ↑ italiansrus.com, Italian hockey player - Complete List
  2. ^ Forecaster.thehockeynews.com, Player Bio - Steve Rucchin
personal data
SURNAME Rucchin, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rucchin, Steve Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Thunder Bay , Ontario