Tony twist

Tony twist
Date of birth	May 9, 1968
place of birth	Sherwood Park , Alberta , Canada
Nickname	Twister
size	186 cm
Weight	104 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1988 , 9th lap, 177th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1986-1988	Saskatoon Blades
1988-1991	Peoria Rivermen
1991-1994	Nordiques de Québec
1994-1999	St. Louis Blues

Anthony Rory "Tony" Twist (born May 9, 1968 in Sherwood Park , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 463 games for the St. Louis Blues and Nordiques de Québec in the course of his active career between 1986 and 1999 National Hockey League on the position of the left winger . Twist embodied the Enforcer type of player .

Career

Twist was in Sherwood Park in the province of Alberta born, but grew up in Prince George in the province of British Columbia on. With the beginning of the 1986/87 season , the striker went for the Saskatoon Blades from the Western Hockey League on the ice, having previously played in Prince George junior ice hockey . He stayed loyal to the blades for a total of two seasons.

After the attacker in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the ninth round in 177th place had been selected by the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League , he immediately switched to the professional field. By February 1991, Twist was mostly on the ice for St. Louis' farm team , the Peoria Rivermen , in the International Hockey League . Only during the 1989/90 season did the Enforcer make 28 appearances for the Blues in the NHL. It was only with the change to the Nordiques de Québec in exchange for Darin Kimble during the 1990/91 season that Twist managed to establish itself. He spent three and a half playing years in the French-Canadian metropolis before returning to the St. Louis Blues as a free agent in the summer of 1994 .

There Twist managed to stay in the Blues' NHL squad for the next five years, as head coach Mike Keenan maintained an aggressive style of play and the attacker thus fitted into the tactical concept. The Canadian finally stayed with the Blues until the summer of 1999, before his contract was not renewed by the club. Due to a serious motorcycle accident in August 1999, the free agent could not find a new employer and ended his active career.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1986/87	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		64	0	8th	8th	181		-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		55	1	8th	9	226		10	1	1	2	6th
1988/89	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		67	3	8th	11	312		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		36	1	5	6th	200		5	0	2	2	8th
1989/90	St. Louis Blues	NHL		28	0	0	0	124		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		38	2	10	12	244		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		24	0	0	0	104		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		44	0	1	1	164		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		34	0	2	2	64		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		49	0	4th	4th	101		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	St. Louis Blues	NHL		28	3	0	3	89		1	0	0	0	6th
1995/96	St. Louis Blues	NHL		51	3	2	5	100		10	1	1	2	16
1996/97	St. Louis Blues	NHL		64	1	2	3	121		6th	0	0	0	0
1997/98	St. Louis Blues	NHL		60	1	1	2	105		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	St. Louis Blues	NHL		63	2	6th	8th	149		1	0	0	0	0
WHL overall				119	1	16	17th	407		21st	1	2	3	48
IHL total				141	6th	23	29	756		5	0	1	1	38
NHL overall				445	10	18th	28	1121		18th	1	1	2	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

• Tony Twist at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Tony Twist at eliteprospects.com (English)