Tom Kurvers

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United StatesUnited States  Tom Kurvers Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 14, 1962
place of birth Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position defender
number # 18
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 7th lap, 145th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1980-1984 University of Minnesota Duluth
1984-1986 Canadiens de Montréal
1986-1987 Buffalo Sabers
1987-1989 New Jersey Devils
1989-1991 Toronto Maple Leafs
1991 Vancouver Canucks
1991-1994 New York Islanders
1994-1995 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1995-1996 Seibu Tetsudo

Thomas James Kurvers (born October 14, 1962 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is a retired American ice hockey player . The defender played for the Canadiens de Montréal , Buffalo Sabers , New Jersey Devils , Toronto Maple Leafs , Vancouver Canucks , New York Islanders and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 1996 .

Career

High school and college

Tom Kurvers began his career on the school team at Jefferson High School in Bloomington in his home state of Minnesota and then moved to the University of Minnesota Duluth . There he played for four years for the university's ice hockey team, the Bulldogs , in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and achieved an average of more than one scorer point per game. In his final 1983/84 season, Kurvers was the highest point defender in the entire NCAA and won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award for best male player in college ice hockey.

National Hockey League

Kurvers had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1981 in the seventh round by the Canadiens de Montréal . In the 1984/85 season he made his debut for the team in the National Hockey League and scored ten goals and 35 assists on the side of Chris Chelios in his rookie season . In the following season he helped the Canadiens to reach the NHL play-offs , but missed the subsequent win of the Stanley Cup due to injury. Since he had completed more than half of the games in the regular season , Kurvers was immortalized on the trophy.

After he was at the beginning of the following season under coach Jean Perron in only one of 17 games on the ice, Kurvers was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers in November 1986 at his own request . These gave him back to the New Jersey Devils at the end of the same season . There the offensive defender played his most successful season in 1988/89 and set new defender records for the Devils with 50 assists and 66 points. During this time he also became the world championships in 1987 and 1989 in the squad of American US national appointed.

After only one use at the beginning of the season, Kurvers was again transferred within the league to the Toronto Maple Leafs , who made a first-round vote in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft to the Devils. After he had initially refused to change the team again and play in Canada, he was able to build on his successes from the previous season in his first season in Toronto. In the 1990/91 season, however, the Maple Leafs were for a long time in last place in the league and gave Kurvers to the Vancouver Canucks during the season . Toronto ended the season with the third worst record of all teams, so New Jersey could select Scott Niedermayer with the draft pick acquired two years earlier .

The following time Kurvers spent with the Canucks, New York Islanders and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , where he again reached the mark of 50 scorer points in New York. For the 1995/96 season , the defender moved to Seibu Tetsudo in the Japan Ice Hockey League , where he won the title with the team and was elected to the All-Star Team .

As a scout and an official

After retiring from his career, Kurvers first got a job at the Phoenix Coyotes team radio in 1997 , before moving to the organization's scouting department a year later . He worked there for ten years and also took on the position of assistant coach for the Coyotes on an interim basis in the 2003/04 season. In 2008, the American moved to the Tampa Bay Lightning organization , where he served as assistant general manager for three years. After Brian Lawton was dismissed from the post of General Manager, he took over his position on a temporary basis from April 2010 for one month. Since the 2011/12 season he has been a Senior Advisor at the Lightning.

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 11 659 93 328 421 350
Play-offs 6th 57 8th 22nd 30th 68

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Baker: They Once Were Called the Flying Frenchmen: With 6 US-Born Players, Nickname No Longer Fits the Montreal Canadiens , Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1985
  2. ↑ a b Tom Kurvers on Hockey Draft Central
personal data
SURNAME Kurvers, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurvers, Thomas James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota