Steve Webb (ice hockey player)

Steve Webb
Date of birth	April 20, 1975
place of birth	Peterborough , Ontario , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1994 , 7th lap, 176th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1992-1993	Windsor Spitfires
1993-1995	Peterborough Petes
1995-1996	Muskegon Fury
1996-2003	New York Islanders
2003-2004	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2004	New York Islanders Bridgeport Sound Tigers

Stephen "Steve" Webb (born April 20, 1975 in Peterborough , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 335 games for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League between 1992 and 2004 ( NHL) on the right winger position . In addition, Webb, who embodied the player type of an enforcer , completed over 130 games in the American Hockey League (AHL).

Career

Webb spent his junior years in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) between 1992 and 1995 . Initially, the winger was active in the 1992/93 season for the Windsor Spitfires , who had selected him in the OHL Priority Selection in the summer of 1992 . Shortly after the start of the following season he moved within the league to the Peterborough Petes , which he was under contract with the team from his hometown Peterborough . After the end of the game year Webb was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the seventh round in 176th place by the Buffalo Sabers from the National Hockey League (NHL). As a result of his third year with the juniors, the offensive player finally switched to the professional field.

Since the Buffalo Sabers refrained from the obligation of their draft pick, Webb found himself in the 1995/96 season first in the Colonial Hockey League (CoHL), where he ran up for the Muskegon Fury . His physical style of play paired with his qualities in the offensive game - he collected 42 points scorer in 58 encounters - also brought him four appearances in the higher class International Hockey League (IHL) with the Detroit Vipers during the season . In addition, he received in October 1996 as a free agent a contract with the New York Islanders from the NHL, after Buffalo had continued to refrain from a contract offer and the transfer rights to him had expired two years after the draft.

The Canadian was in the service of the Islanders for a total of seven seasons. After he was in the first three years between the NHL squad of New York and those of the farm teams Kentucky Thoroughblades (1996-1998) and Lowell Lock Monsters (1998-1999) commuted from the American Hockey League (AHL), he received at the season 1999/2000 the long-awaited regular place in the NHL. The attacker kept this beyond the following season, in which he was only used 31 times due to a knee injury. After his contract had expired at the end of the 2002/03 season , he received in October 2003 - again as a free agent - a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers . There he did not get into the NHL squad, however, as he was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins when he went through the waiver list . With the exception of five games for Pittsburgh, he spent the game year until March 2004 with their cooperation partner Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL, before he returned to the New York Islanders through a transfer. They had exchanged him for defense attorney Alain Nasreddine . Webb completed eleven games for the Isles and twelve more for their AHL farm team Bridgeport Sound Tigers by the end of the season, before he declared his career at the end of the season at the age of 29 due to chronic pain for over.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1992/93	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		63	14th	25th	39	181		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		2	0	1	1	9		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Peterborough Petes	OHL		33	6th	15th	21st	117		6th	1	1	2	10
1994/95	Peterborough Petes	OHL		42	8th	16	24	109		11	3	3	6th	22nd
1995/96	Muskegon Fury	CoHL		58	18th	24	42	263		5	1	2	3	22nd
1995/96	Detroit Vipers	IHL		4th	0	0	0	24		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	New York Islanders	NHL		41	1	4th	5	144		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Kentucky Thoroughblades	AHL		25th	6th	6th	12	103		2	0	0	0	19th
1997/98	New York Islanders	NHL		20th	0	0	0	35		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Kentucky Thoroughblades	AHL		37	5	13	18th	139		3	0	1	1	10
1998/99	New York Islanders	NHL		45	0	0	0	32		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		23	2	4th	6th	80		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	New York Islanders	NHL		65	1	3	4th	103		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	New York Islanders	NHL		40	0	1	1	147		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	New York Islanders	NHL		60	2	4th	6th	104		7th	0	0	0	12
2002/03	New York Islanders	NHL		49	1	0	1	75		5	0	0	0	10
2003/04	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		5	0	0	0	43		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		30th	4th	7th	11	48		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	New York Islanders	NHL		9	0	3	3	23		2	0	0	0	6th
2003/04	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		7th	0	1	1	29		5	0	0	0	4th
OHL total				140	28	57	75	416		17th	4th	4th	8th	32
AHL total				122	17th	31	48	495		10	0	1	1	33
NHL overall				321	5	13	18th	532		14th	0	0	0	28

( 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

• Steve Webb at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Steve Webb at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jordan Allard: Backchecking: Steve Webb. In: thehockeynews.com. The Hockey News , April 17, 2011, accessed April 5, 2020 .