Tony Amonte

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Tony Amonte
Date of birth 2nd August 1970
place of birth Hingham , Massachusetts , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1988 , 4th lap, 68th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1985-1989 Thayer Academy
1989-1991 Boston University
1991-1994 New York Rangers
1994-1995 SHC Fassa
1994-2002 Chicago Blackhawks
2002-2003 Phoenix Coyotes
2003-2005 Philadelphia Flyers
2005-2007 Calgary Flames

Anthony Lewis "Tony" Amonte (born August 2, 1970 in Hingham , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach of Italian descent, who in the course of his active career between 1989 and 2007, among other things, 1273 games for the New York Rangers , Chicago Blackhawks , Phoenix Coyotes , Philadelphia Flyers and Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League as the right winger . Amonte, who around the sport of ice hockey in the United States in the year 2009 in recognition of his service United States Hockey Hall of Fame was recorded, won with the national team of the United States the 1996 World Cup of Hockey . Since 2010 he has worked as a trainer in the Thayer Academy's high school ice hockey program . His cousin Charlie Coyle is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Amonte played for Thayer Academy with boyfriend Jeremy Roenick in high school . At that time, the New York Rangers secured the rights to him in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round when they selected out as 68. He moved to Boston University and played there with the university team, the Terriers, for two good years. During this time he also represented the USA at two Junior World Championships. Two days after losing the 1991 NCAA championship final in third overtime , he signed his first professional contract with Rangers. So the Rangers brought him in 1991 for the NHL to two playoff games, in which he presented two goals.

From the 1991/92 season he played completely in the NHL and in his rookie season he was able to draw attention to himself with 35 goals and 69 points. In the choice of the Calder Memorial Trophy for the best newcomer in the league, he finished third behind Pawel Bure and Nicklas Lidström . The following year he benefited from playing in a row with Mark Messier . He increased his record to 76 points. In the years in which the Rangers missed the playoffs, Amonte was also a recurring topic for the US national ice hockey team . He played at the 1991 and 1993 World Championships .

Shortly before the end of the 1993/94 season , the Rangers gave him with junior player Matt Oates to the Chicago Blackhawks , while Stéphane Matteau and Brian Noonan moved to New York. He missed winning the Stanley Cup with the Rangers, but was given the opportunity to develop into one of the league's top scorers in Chicago, where he met his friend Jeremy Roenick again. But before that, the NHL went on strike and Amonte played some games for SHC Fassa Levoni in Italy at the end of 1994 . In Chicago he scored over 30 goals every year until 2001. His best season was 1999/2000 when he scored 43 goals and 84 points.

During his time in Chicago, he also played at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey , in which Amonte scored the decisive goal to win the gold medal, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , where he played with the US Team won the silver medal.

After nine years in Chicago, Amonte was looking for a lucrative contract and the Phoenix Coyotes signed him for the 2002/03 season . But before the end of the season, the Coyotes gave Amonte, who could not meet expectations, to the Philadelphia Flyers . There his path crossed again with that of Jeremy Roenick. He scored 20 goals again in the 2003/04 season . In the summer of 2005, he signed a contract with the Calgary Flames . There he scored his 400th goal in the NHL in late 2005.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1985/86 Thayer Academy High school 2 0 0 0
1986/87 Thayer Academy High school 25th 25th 32 57
1987/88 Thayer Academy High school 28 30th 38 68
1988/89 Thayer Academy High school 25th 35 38 73
1989/90 Boston University NCAA 41 25th 33 58 52
1990/91 Boston University NCAA 38 31 37 68 82
1990/91 New York Rangers NHL - - - - - 2 0 2 2 2
1991/92 New York Rangers NHL 79 35 34 69 55 13 3 6th 9 2
1992/93 New York Rangers NHL 83 33 43 76 49 - - - - -
1993/94 New York Rangers NHL 72 16 22nd 38 31 - - - - -
1993/94 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 7th 1 3 4th 6th 6th 4th 2 6th 4th
1994/95 SHC Fassa Series A1 14th 22nd 16 38 10 - - - - -
1994/95 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 48 15th 20th 35 41 16 3 3 6th 10
1995/96 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 81 31 32 63 62 7th 2 4th 6th 6th
1996/97 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 81 41 36 77 64 6th 4th 2 6th 8th
1997/98 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 31 42 73 66 - - - - -
1998/99 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 44 31 75 60 - - - - -
1999/00 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 43 41 84 48 - - - - -
2000/01 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 35 29 64 54 - - - - -
2001/02 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 27 39 66 67 5 0 1 1 4th
2002/03 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 59 13 23 36 26th - - - - -
2002/03 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 13 7th 8th 15th 2 13 1 6th 7th 4th
2003/04 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 20th 33 53 38 18th 3 5 8th 6th
2004/05 Philadelphia Flyers NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Calgary Flames NHL 80 14th 28 42 43 7th 2 1 3 10
2006/07 Calgary Flames NHL 81 10 20th 30th 40 6th 0 1 1 0
High school overall 80 90 108 198
NCAA overall 79 56 70 126 134
NHL overall 1174 416 484 900 752 99 22nd 33 55 56

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1989 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 1 3 4th 2
1990 United States June World Cup 7th place 7th 5 2 7th 4th
1991 United States WM 4th Place 10 2 5 7th 4th
1993 United States WM 6th place 6th 1 2 3 8th
1996 United States World cup 1st place, gold 7th 2 4th 6th 6th
1998 United States Olympia 6th place 4th 0 1 1 4th
2002 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 2 2 4th 0
2004 United States World cup 4th Place 5 0 1 1 0
Juniors overall 14th 6th 5 11 6th
Men overall 38 7th 15th 22nd 22nd

( 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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athlete profile: Tony Amonte ( Memento from February 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Amonte, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amonte, Anthony Lewis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hingham , Massachusetts