Walt Poddubny

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CanadaCanada  Walt Poddubny Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 14, 1960
place of birth Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
date of death March 21, 2009
Place of death Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Coffins
size 185 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 5th lap, 90th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1978-1979 Brandon Wheat Kings
1979 Kitchener Rangers
1979-1980 Kingston Canadians
1980-1982 Wichita wind
1982-1986 Toronto Maple Leafs
1986-1988 New York Rangers
1988-1989 Nordiques de Québec
1989-1992 New Jersey Devils
1992-1993 EC Bad Nauheim
1993 SHC Fassa
1993-1994 EC Bad Nauheim
1994-1995 Worcester IceCats
CanadaCanada  Walt Poddubny
Coaching stations
1995-1996 Daytona Beach Breakers
1996-1997 Worcester IceCats (assistant coach)
1997-2002 Anchorage Aces

Walter Michael "Walt" Poddubny (born February 14, 1960 in Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada ; † March 21, 2009 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who, in the course of his active career between 1978 and 1995, among others Has played 487 games for the Edmonton Oilers , Toronto Maple Leafs , New York Rangers , Nordiques de Québec and New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League (NHL) as the right winger . In 1989 Poddubny, who was active in Germany for two years at EC Bad Nauheim between 1992 and 1994, took part in the NHL All-Star Game as a player in the Nordiques de Québec .

Career

After Poddubny had spent two seasons as a teenager with the local Thunder Bay Kings in the lower class junior area, he collected first operating times in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Brandon Wheat Kings during the 1978/79 season . From the 1980/81 season , the striker went to the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL) initially for the Kitchener Rangers , but switched to Kitchener's league rivals Kingston Canadians during the season . There he finished his last year in the junior division, since he had been selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1980 in the fifth round in 90th position by the Edmonton Oilers from the National Hockey League (NHL).

Poddubny immediately switched to the professional field after the draft, as he was able to convince the officials of the Oilers of his qualities in the training camp before the 1980/81 season. However, he did not manage to get a place in the top-class NHL squad, but was initially used in the Wichita Wind in the Central Hockey League (CHL). In the course of his rookie season , he also collected minutes of action with the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League (IHL). For the Oilers, the attacker finally made his debut in the 1981/82 season in the NHL, but continued to play mainly in Wichita. During the season, Poddubny was transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs together with Phil Drouillard , who let Laurie Boschman move to Edmonton. At the Maple Leafs, the offensive player finally managed to make the permanent leap into the NHL. He stayed in the following three seasons until the 1985/86 season with the Leafs, before he commuted between the Toronto NHL squad and that of the farm team St. Catharines Saints from the American Hockey League (AHL). In the summer of 1986 Toronto separated from the attacker and gave him to the New York Rangers for Mike Allison .

With the Rangers Poddubny spent the two most successful seasons of his NHL career. He collected 87 points scorer in the first year, which he confirmed with 88 points in the 1987/88 season . He also scored 40 and 38 goals. He was the Rangers' top scorer in both seasons. With the increased market value, he was sold to the Nordiques de Québec after two years in the service of the Broadway Blueshirts together with Jari Grönstad , Bruce Bell and a four-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft . In return, New York secured the services of Jason Lafrenière and Normand Rochefort . With the French Canadians Poddubny was able to confirm his achievements from the two previous years with 75 points and again 38 goals. He also represented the Nordiques in the NHL All-Star Game that year , but they parted with him after only one year in a new transfer business. This time the attacker was sent to the New Jersey Devils along with a four-round suffrage in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft for Joe Cirella , Claude Loiselle and an eight-round suffrage of the same draft . In the jersey of the Devils Poddubny could not compensate for the shape of the previous years. By February 1990 he had only collected 14 points in 33 games. An injury to the cruciate ligament in his right knee with subsequent long-term consequences let him complete only 21 more NHL games by the end of the 1991/92 season .

Before the 1992/93 season , the Canadian left the NHL and joined the EC Bad Nauheim from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga , which had achieved a real transfer coup. With 76 scorer points, he was by far the best scorer of the team, but he could not avoid going into the relegation round to the upper league . In this he was with 20 points in nine missions the best player among all players, but could not prevent relegation. He then left Bad Nauheim and joined the Italian first division club SHC Fassa at the beginning of the following season . With nine completed games, it was only a short guest appearance, as he returned to EC Bad Nauheim. In the summer of 1994, however, he moved back to the United States and completed his last professional season with the Worcester IceCats in the AHL. In the spring of 1995 he ended his active career at the age of 35.

Over the summer of 1995 Poddubny worked as a player- coach for the inline hockey team Orlando Rollergators in the Roller Hockey International (RHI), after he had played for the league competitor Las Vegas Flash the previous summer . For the 1995/96 season he was appointed head coach of the Daytona Beach Breakers from the Southern Hockey League . After a year there followed a one-year engagement as an assistant coach for his ex-team Worcester IceCats in the AHL. He was then hired as the head coach of the Anchorage Aces of the West Coast Hockey League (WCHL). He held this post with two breaks between June and November 1999 and May and December 2001 until the end of the 2001/02 season . He was also General Manager of the franchise between November 1999 and May 2001 .

Poddunby died unexpectedly in March 2009 at the age of 49 in his hometown of Thunder Bay in the Canadian province of Ontario .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1978/79 Brandon Wheat Kings WHL 20th 11 11 22nd 12 - - - - -
1979/80 Kitchener Rangers OMJHL 19th 3 9 12 35 - - - - -
1979/80 Kingston Canadians OMJHL 43 30th 17th 47 36 3 0 2 2 0
1980/81 Wichita wind CHL 70 21st 29 50 207 11 1 6th 7th 26th
1980/81 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 5 4th 2 6th 4th - - - - -
1981/82 Wichita wind CHL 60 35 46 81 79 - - - - -
1981/82 Edmonton Oilers NHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1981/82 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 11 3 4th 7th 8th - - - - -
1982/83 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 72 28 31 59 71 4th 3 1 4th 0
1983/84 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 38 11 14th 25th 48 - - - - -
1984/85 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 32 5 15th 20th 26th - - - - -
1984/85 St. Catharines Saints AHL 8th 5 7th 12 10 - - - - -
1985/86 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 33 12 22nd 34 25th 9 4th 1 5 4th
1985/86 St. Catharines Saints AHL 37 28 27 55 52 - - - - -
1986/87 New York Rangers NHL 75 40 47 87 49 6th 0 0 0 8th
1987/88 New York Rangers NHL 77 38 50 88 76 - - - - -
1988/89 Nordiques de Québec NHL 72 38 37 75 107 - - - - -
1989/90 New Jersey Devils NHL 33 4th 10 14th 28 - - - - -
1989/90 Utica Devils AHL 2 1 2 3 0 - - - - -
1990/91 New Jersey Devils NHL 14th 4th 6th 10 10 - - - - -
1991/92 New Jersey Devils NHL 7th 1 2 3 6th - - - - -
1992/93 EC Bad Nauheim 2nd Bundesliga 44 35 41 76 149 9 1 5 15th 20th 15th
1993/94 SHC Fassa Series A1 9 2 3 5 19th - - - - -
1993/94 EC Bad Nauheim Oberliga 37 40 46 86 115 - - - - -
1994/95 Worcester IceCats AHL 34 7th 6th 13 62 - - - - -
OMJHL overall 62 33 26th 59 71 3 0 2 2 0
CHL total 130 56 75 131 286 11 1 6th 7th 26th
AHL total 81 41 42 83 94 - - - - -
NHL overall 468 184 238 422 454 19th 7th 2 9 12

( 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. ^ Dino Mori: Former Leaf Walt Poddubny Dead at Age 49. In: Bleacher Report . bleacherreport.co, March 22, 2009, accessed March 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Poddubny, Walt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poddubny, Walter Michael (full name); Poddubny, Wally
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2009
Place of death Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada