Steven Finn (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Steven Finn Ice hockey player
Date of birth 20th August 1966
place of birth Laval , Quebec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 87 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1984 , 3rd lap, 57th position
Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1982-1986 Voisins / Titan de Laval
1986-1995 Nordiques de Québec
1995 Tampa Bay Lightning
1995-1997 Los Angeles Kings
1997-1998 Long Beach Ice Dogs

Steven Finn (born August 20, 1966 in Laval , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 748 games for the Nordiques de Québec , Tampa Bay Lightning and Los Angeles Kings in national hockey during his active career between 1982 and 1998 League (NHL) on the position of defender . In the 1990/91 season he was together with Joe Sakic the eighth team captain in the franchise history of the Nordiques de Québec.

Career

Finn first spent his junior years from 1982 to 1985 with the Voisins de Laval in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ). There the defender won the Coupe du Président , the championship trophy of the LHJMQ, with the team in 1984 . In the same year he was also appointed to the League's First All-Star Team and selected in the third round of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft in 57th place by the Nordiques de Québec from the National Hockey League (NHL). Finn got his first impressions in the professional field after the end of the LHJMQ season 1984/85 when he went on the ice in ten games for Québec's farm team Fredericton Express in the American Hockey League (AHL).

The following game year, the 19-year-old started with the Nordiques in the NHL, but was sent back to the LHJMQ during the course of the season, where his junior team now operated under the name Titan de Laval . In the 1986/87 season Finn dared to try again in the professional field and then commuted between the cadres of the AHL farm team in Fredericton and the NHL squad of the Nordiques. It was not until the 1987/88 season that the defender managed to establish himself in the NHL. With his mixture of aggressiveness, tenacity and devotion, Finn developed into a regular player who ensured stability on the defensive and was also able to block a variety of shots. These qualities gave him the appointment of the eighth team captain in the Nordiques franchise history before the 1990/91 season . He shared the post this season with Joe Sakic . Overall, the defensive player spent ten years in the Québec organization before the franchise was relocated to Denver in the US state of Colorado before the 1995/96 season , where it continued playing under the name Colorado Avalanche . Finn completed over 600 games for the Franco-Canadian team during this period.

For the Avalanche, however, the Canadian did not play any games, since he was given in October 1995 in exchange for a four-round vote in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft to the Tampa Bay Lightning . However, Finn only wore the Lightning jersey for 16 games, as he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings in November of the same year . For this Michel Petit moved to Tampa. At the Los Angeles Kings Finn finished the game year and was also a fixture of the team in the 1996/97 season . The season 1997/98 Finn finally played in the International Hockey League (IHL) with the Long Beach Ice Dogs , where he let his career end, which he declared after the season at the age of 32 for over.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1982/83 Voisins de Laval LHJMQ 69 7th 30th 37 108 6th 0 2 2 6th
1983/84 Voisins de Laval LHJMQ 68 7th 39 46 164 14th 1 6th 7th 27
1984 Voisins de Laval Memorial Cup - - - - - 3 0 0 0 16
1984/85 Voisins de Laval LHJMQ 61 20th 33 53 169 - - - - -
1984/85 Fredericton Express AHL 4th 0 0 0 14th 6th 1 1 2 4th
1985/86 Nordiques de Québec NHL 17th 0 1 1 28 - - - - -
1985/86 Titan de Laval LHJMQ 29 4th 15th 19th 111 14th 6th 16 22nd 57
1986/87 Nordiques de Québec NHL 36 2 5 7th 40 13 0 2 2 29
1986/87 Fredericton Express AHL 38 7th 19th 26th 73 - - - - -
1987/88 Nordiques de Québec NHL 75 3 7th 10 198 - - - - -
1988/89 Nordiques de Québec NHL 77 2 6th 8th 235 - - - - -
1989/90 Nordiques de Québec NHL 64 3 9 12 208 - - - - -
1990/91 Nordiques de Québec NHL 71 6th 13 19th 228 - - - - -
1991/92 Nordiques de Québec NHL 65 4th 7th 11 194 - - - - -
1992/93 Nordiques de Québec NHL 80 5 9 14th 160 6th 0 1 1 8th
1993/94 Nordiques de Québec NHL 80 4th 13 17th 159 - - - - -
1994/95 Nordiques de Québec NHL 40 0 3 3 64 4th 0 1 1 2
1995/96 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 16 0 0 0 24 - - - - -
1995/96 Los Angeles Kings NHL 50 3 2 5 102 - - - - -
1996/97 Los Angeles Kings NHL 54 2 3 5 84 - - - - -
1997/98 Long Beach Ice Dogs IHL 75 6th 14th 20th 134 17th 1 4th 5 148
LHJMQ total 224 38 117 155 554 34 7th 24 31 90
AHL total 42 7th 19th 26th 87 6th 1 1 2 4th
NHL overall 725 34 78 112 1724 23 0 4th 4th 39

( 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. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Steven Finn. greatesthockeylegends.com, March 2011, accessed March 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Finn, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finn, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Laval , Quebec , Canada