Todd Bertuzzi

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Todd Bertuzzi
Date of birth 2nd February 1975
place of birth Greater Sudbury , Ontario , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 105 kg
position Right wing
number # 44
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 1st round, 23rd position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1991-1995 Guelph Storm
1995-1998 New York Islanders
1998-2006 Vancouver Canucks
2006-2007 Florida panthers
2007 Detroit Red Wings
2007-2008 Anaheim Ducks
2008-2009 Calgary Flames
2009-2014 Detroit Red Wings

Todd Bertuzzi (born February 2, 1975 in Greater Sudbury , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player of Italian descent who played 1246 games for the New York Islanders , Vancouver Canucks , Florida Panthers , Detroit Red during his playing career between 1991 and 2014 Wings , Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames played in the National Hockey League on the right winger position . Bertuzzi, who embodied the power forward player type , took part in the NHL All-Star Game twice and was on the NHL First All-Star Team in 2003 .

However, he gained greater notoriety due to a massive attack during a game in 2004 against his opponent Steve Moore .

Career

Bertuzzi played four years in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League with Guelph Storm . During this time he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft 1993 by those responsible for the New York Islanders in the first round in a total of 23rd position. In the summer of 1995 he received his first NHL contract with the Islanders. In the following season 1995/96 he played partially for the International Hockey League club Utah Grizzlies , but also in this year he spent most of the time in the NHL. After another season in New York, he was transferred to the Vancouver Canucks on February 6, 1998 together with Bryan McCabe and Jarkko Ruutu in exchange for Trevor Linden .

Bertuzzi in the jersey of the Calgary Flames

Bertuzzi went on the ice in eight seasons for the Canucks and was one of the top performers within his team. After the offensive player was able to achieve 15 points in 22 games in his first season in Vancouver , he increased his point yield before he scored 103 times in 96 games during the 2002/03 season . This was his most successful season as a professional in the National Hockey League. Bertuzzi was also the fifth best scorer of the main round 2002/03 with 97 points.

Because of a massive foul against Steve Moore in the NHL game of his club, the Vancouver Canucks , against the Colorado Avalanche , in which Moore sustained several broken cervical vertebrae and other injuries, Bertuzzi was suspended from the NHL on March 8, 2004 and was later on trial . Among other things, he was conditionally acquitted under Canadian law with a one-year probationary period and was only allowed on the ice again in the following season. Since he did not attract criminal attention again during his probationary period, he is not considered to have a criminal record. The Vancouver Canucks had to pay a fine of $ 250,000.

For the 2006/07 season , Bertuzzi moved as part of an exchange deal together with Alex Auld and Bryan Allen from the Canucks to the Florida Panthers , who gave Roberto Luongo and Lukáš Krajíček and a draft right to the Canucks. Apart from seven games, Bertuzzi could not play for the Florida Panthers during the season due to a back injury. Shortly before the end of the transfer window, Bertuzzi was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings . With them he moved in the playoffs to the final of the Western Conference . In the summer of 2007, he signed a contract with the Anaheim Ducks , before moving to the Calgary Flames a year later, after the Ducks had paid off his contract early after a disappointing season .

Bertuzzi played in his only season for the Flames as consistently as before in Anaheim and scored 15 goals. On August 18, 2009, he signed with the Detroit Red Wings, for which he had played in 2007. After five years in Detroit, his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2014, so he was looking for a new employer as a free agent . On January 9, 2015, he finally signed a tryout contract with the Binghamton Senators with the hope of getting an NHL contract with the Ottawa Senators , which failed because the contract was terminated on January 21, 2015 because Bertuzzi had no points in his first two games and a plus / minus statistic of −3. He then retired as a player from ice hockey.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1991/92 Guelph Storm OHL 42 7th 14th 21st 145 - - - - -
1992/93 Guelph Storm OHL 60 27 31 58 168 5 2 2 4th 6th
1993/94 Guelph Storm OHL 61 28 54 82 165 9 2 6th 8th 30th
1994/95 Guelph Storm OHL 62 54 65 119 58 14th 15th 18th 33 41
1995/96 New York Islanders NHL 76 18th 21st 39 83 - - - - -
1996/97 Utah grizzlies IHL 13 5 5 10 16 - - - - -
1996/97 New York Islanders NHL 64 10 13 23 68 - - - - -
1997/98 New York Islanders NHL 52 7th 11 18th 58 - - - - -
1997/98 Vancouver Canucks NHL 22nd 6th 9 15th 63 - - - - -
1998/99 Vancouver Canucks NHL 32 8th 8th 16 44 - - - - -
1999/00 Vancouver Canucks NHL 80 25th 25th 50 126 - - - - -
2000/01 Vancouver Canucks NHL 79 25th 30th 55 93 4th 2 2 4th 8th
2001/02 Vancouver Canucks NHL 72 36 49 85 110 6th 2 2 4th 14th
2002/03 Vancouver Canucks NHL 82 46 51 97 144 14th 2 4th 6th 60
2003/04 Vancouver Canucks NHL 69 17th 43 60 122 - - - - -
2004/05 Vancouver Canucks NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Vancouver Canucks NHL 82 25th 46 71 120 - - - - -
2006/07 Florida panthers NHL 7th 1 6th 7th 13 - - - - -
2006/07 Detroit Red Wings NHL 8th 2 2 4th 6th 16 3 4th 7th 15th
2007/08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 68 14th 26th 40 97 6th 0 2 2 14th
2008/09 Calgary Flames NHL 66 15th 29 44 74 6th 1 1 2 8th
2009/10 Detroit Red Wings NHL 82 18th 26th 44 80 12 2 9 11 12
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 16 29 45 71 11 2 4th 6th 15th
2011/12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 71 14th 24 38 64 5 0 0 0 9
2012/13 Detroit Red Wings NHL 7th 2 1 3 2 6th 0 0 0 2
2013/14 Detroit Red Wings NHL 59 9 7th 16 40 1 0 0 0 2
2014/15 Binghamton Senators AHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
OHL total 225 116 164 536 77 46 9 14th 23 111
NHL overall 1159 314 456 770 1478 87 14th 28 42 159

International

Bertuzzi at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Canada WM 6th place 6th 1 2 3 16
2000 Canada WM 4th Place 9 5 4th 9 47
2006 Canada Olympia 7th place 6th 0 3 3 6th
Men overall 21st 6th 9 15th 69

( 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 : Todd Bertuzzi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ espn.go.com, Force of Nature
  2. ↑ Bertuzzi inks tryout with Ottawa's AHL team . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com [accessed February 3, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bertuzzi, Todd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudbury , Ontario