Wendell Young

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CanadaCanada  Wendell Young Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 1, 1963
place of birth Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada
Nickname Ringmaster
size 175 cm
Weight 82 kg
position goalkeeper
number #1
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 4th round, 73rd position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1980-1983 Kitchener Rangers
1983-1984 Fredericton Express
Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1984-1987 Vancouver Canucks
Fredericton Express
1987-1988 Hershey Bears
1988-1992 Pittsburgh Penguins
1992-1994 Tampa Bay Lightning
1994-1995 Chicago Wolves
1995 Pittsburgh Penguins
1995-2001 Chicago Wolves
CanadaCanada  Wendell Young
Coaching stations
2001-2003 Chicago Wolves (Dir. Team Relations)
Calgary Flames (Assistant Coach)
2003-2009 Chicago Wolves (assistant coach)
since 2009 Chicago Wolves (General Manager)

Wendell Edward Young (* 1. August 1963 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and - coaches and current -funktionär, who during his playing career from 1980 to 2001 among other 189 games for the Vancouver Canucks , Philadelphia Flyers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League (NHL). However, Young spent most of his career in the minor leagues American Hockey League (AHL) and International Hockey League (IHL), where he completed 530 games. He spent the longest time with the Chicago Wolves in the IHL, which blocked his jersey number 1 in December 2001 and has not been awarded since then. Young is also the only player in ice hockey history to win the Stanley Cup , Calder Cup , Turner Cup and Memorial Cup during his playing career . He won the Stanley Cup in the service of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1991 and 1992 . Young has been General Manager of Chicago Wolves since 2009 , for which he has worked since 2003.

Career

Young spent a very successful junior period between 1980 and 1983 with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The 17-year-old goalkeeper was a regular goalkeeper there in his rookie year . In his first two years in the league Young won alongside future NHL -Spielern as Al MacInnis , Scott Stevens and Brian Bellows each the J. Ross Robertson Cup OHL. In addition, the talented team won the prestigious Memorial Cup of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) umbrella organization in 1982 , with which the team won the double . The goalkeeper had already been selected after his rookie season in the NHL Entry Draft 1981 in the fourth round in 73rd place by the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League (NHL). As a result of his third junior season in the OHL, in which he was appointed to the league's third all-star team, Young moved to the professional field for the 1983/84 season.

In the first two years of his career, the Canadian was used by the Vancouver Canucks in their farm teams. So he stood in the 1983/84 season for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the Central Hockey League (CHL), the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League (IHL) and the Fredericton Express in the American Hockey League (AHL) between the posts . From the following season he was exclusively part of the squad of the Fredericton Express, where he acted as a substitute for Clint Malarchuk . For the 1985/86 season , Young made the hoped-for jump into Vancouver's NHL squad and also worked there as a substitute. He supported and relieved the regular goalkeeper Richard Brodeur and completed 22 games. In addition, there were repeated assignments with the Express in the AHL to give him enough game practice and to keep him competitive. This pattern continued in the following year, but he played more often in the AHL and less often in the NHL, since his post as a substitute goalkeeper had been challenged by Frank Caprice . In August 1987, the Canucks separated from their junior goalie and sent him in a transfer together with a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 to the Philadelphia Flyers , who in return gave Darren Jensen and Daryl Stanley to the Canadian west coast.

In the organization of the Flyers, to which he belonged only a year and completed six games for Philadelphia itself in the NHL, Young was the first goalkeeper in his professional career. He was used by the Hershey Bears in the AHL, who went with him between the posts as the best point team of the regular season as a top favorite in the playoffs for the Calder Cup . Young's style of play with a catch rate of 92.0 percent and an average goal against 2.12 ultimately led the team to win the Calder Cup undefeated. His playoff winning streak of twelve games is a valid AHL record that no goalkeeper has achieved either before or after him. In addition to winning the Calder Cup, the keeper received numerous individual awards. He was awarded the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the Playoffs . In addition, he received the Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award for best goalkeeper of the season and was appointed to the AHL First All-Star Team . His achievements eventually caught the attention of other franchises , and so in September 1988 he was again part of a transfer business. The Pittsburgh Penguins exchanged for him and a seventh-round suffrage of the Flyers in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 a third-round suffrage of the same draft.

The banner of Young's locked jersey number 1 under the ceiling of the Allstate Arena

Young was active in the Penguins for the next four years. In his first year with the team Young was in the ranking behind Tom Barrasso , before he took over the main parts of the game from Barrasso in the 1989/90 season . This changed from the beginning of the 1991 season but again and Barrasso was mainly between the posts again. The pens set out to win the Stanley Cup twice in a row this year and the following year with players like Mario Lemieux , Mark Recchi , Ron Francis , Kevin Stevens , Paul Coffey , Larry Murphy and Jaromír Jágr . Due to the fact that Young had completed the necessary number of appearances as a substitute goalkeeper in the regular season, his name was immortalized in both years on the pedestal of the cup. After the second Stanley Cup win, Young's successful time with the Penguins ended, as he had been left unprotected by Pittsburgh in the run-up to the 1992 NHL Expansion Draft and the newly formed Tampa Bay Lightning thus secured his rights in the expansion draft.

After the Canadian goalkeeper had led the team through the 1992/93 season together with Pat Jablonski and Jean-Claude Bergeron in the first year of its existence , a shoulder injury suffered in September 1993 meant that he almost missed the following game year and only nine Completed NHL games. By the lockout shortened and later started NHL season 1994/95 he spent mostly with the Chicago Wolves in the International Hockey League (IHL) before it in February 1995 by the Pittsburgh Penguins in a transfer for future consideration ( future considerations retrieved) has been. The Penguins needed a back-up for Ken Wregget after Barrasso injured his foot and was out longer. At the end of the season, Young's expiring contract was not extended.

He therefore signed a contract as a free agent with the Chicago Wolves in July 1995 , to which he remained loyal for the following six years until the IHL was dissolved and his career ended. During this time he was the unrestricted regular in the gate of Chicago. In 1998 and 2000 he led the team to win the Turner Cup , making Young - also due to the dissolution of the IHL in 2001 - the only player in history to win the four great trophies of North American ice hockey - namely Memorial, Calder, Turner and Stanley Cup - could win in his playing career. This earned him the nickname "Ringmaster" . In addition, during his time in the "Windy City" , in which he set two IHL records for goalkeepers in a row with 16 wins and 20 undefeated games in the 1997/98 season and also numerous other internal franchise records, he was named IHL Man of the year . The award went hand in hand with his retirement from active sport in the summer of 2001. The Wolves banned his jersey number 1 just a few months later on December 1, 2001 and have not given it to any other player since then.

During his time as an active player, Young had already tried to find the time after his retirement. In 1994 he acquired shares in the newly established Halifax Mooseheads franchise from his native Halifax in the province of Nova Scotia . He sold the participant's shares in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) again in 2001 and instead bought himself from league competitor Castors de Sherbrooke , with whom he also relocated the franchise to the United States in 2003 and renamed Lewiston MAINEiacs . In 2004 he sold his shares there too.

Young himself remained active in the Chicago Wolves franchise, which was now part of the AHL, after his resignation. He was hired as the Director of Team Relations . At the same time he was also employed as an assistant and goalkeeping coach for the Calgary Flames in the NHL until September 2003 . From September 2003 he worked solely for the Wolves in the role of assistant and goalkeeping coach and in 2008 won the Calder Cup again with the team he was in charge of. Prior to the 2009/10 season , the Canadian was promoted to general manager of the franchise. In this role he received the AHL Thomas Ebright Award in 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1992 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins
  • 1997 IHL goalkeeper of the month December
  • 1998 Turner Cup win with the Chicago Wolves
  • 2000 IHL goalkeeper of the month February
  • 2000 Turner Cup win with the Chicago Wolves
  • 2001 IHL Man of the Year
  • 2001 jersey number 1 blocked by the Chicago Wolves
  • 2008 Calder Cup win with the Chicago Wolves (as assistant coach)
  • 2018 Thomas Ebright Award (as General Manager)

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
1980/81 Kitchener Rangers OHL 42 19th 15th 0 2215 164 1 4.44 14th 9 1 800 42 1 3.15
1981 Kitchener Rangers Memorial Cup 4th 0 4.44 91.7
1981/82 Kitchener Rangers OHL 60 38 17th 2 3470 195 1 3.37 15th 12 1 900 35 1 2.33
1982 Kitchener Rangers Memorial Cup 5 3 2 1 4.44
1982/83 Kitchener Rangers OHL 61 41 19th 0 3611 231 1 3.84 12 6th 5 720 43 0 3.58
1983/84 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 20th 11 6th 0 1094 80 0 4.39 4th 0 2 122 11 0 5.42
1983/84 Fredericton Express AHL 11 7th 3 0 569 39 1 4.11 86.6 - - - - - - - -
1983/84 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 6th 4th 1 1 339 17th 0 3.01 - - - - - - - -
1984/85 Fredericton Express AHL 22nd 7th 11 3 1242 83 0 4.01 87.7 - - - - - - - -
1985/86 Fredericton Express AHL 24 12 8th 4th 1457 78 0 3.21 90.1 - - - - - - - -
1985/86 Vancouver Canucks NHL 22nd 4th 9 3 1023 61 0 3.58 88.6 1 0 1 60 5 0 5.00 84.4
1986/87 Fredericton Express AHL 30th 11 16 0 1676 118 0 4.22 88.7 - - - - - - - -
1986/87 Vancouver Canucks NHL 8th 1 6th 1 420 35 0 5.00 84.4 - - - - - - - -
1987/88 Hershey Bears AHL 51 33 15th 1 2922 135 1 2.77 91.2 12 12 0 767 28 1 2.19 92.0
1987/88 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 6th 0 3 2 320 20th 0 3.76 86.5 - - - - - - - -
1988/89 Muskegon Lumberjacks IHL 2 1 0 1 125 7th 0 3.36 - - - - - - - -
1988/89 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 22nd 12 9 0 1151 92 0 4.80 86.3 1 0 0 39 1 0 1.55 90.9
1989/90 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 43 16 20th 4th 2319 161 1 4.17 87.3 - - - - - - - -
1990/91 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 18th 4th 6th 2 773 52 0 4.04 87.9 - - - - - - - -
1991/92 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 18th 7th 6th 0 838 53 0 3.80 88.9 - - - - - - - -
1992/93 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 31 7th 19th 2 1592 97 0 3.66 87.2 - - - - - - - -
1992/93 Atlanta Knights IHL 3 3 0 0 183 8th 0 2.62 88.4 - - - - - - - -
1993/94 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 9 2 3 1 480 20th 1 2.50 90.5 - - - - - - - -
1993/94 Atlanta Knights IHL 2 2 0 0 120 6th 0 3.00 83.8 - - - - - - - -
1994/95 Chicago Wolves IHL 37 14th 11 7th 1882 112 0 3.57 89.4 - - - - - - - -
1994/95 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 10 3 6th 0 497 27 0 3.26 89.4 - - - - - - - -
1995/96 Chicago Wolves IHL 61 30th 20th 6th 3285 199 1 3.63 89.9 9 4th 5 540 30th 0 3.33 91.9
1996/97 Chicago Wolves IHL 52 25th 21st 4th 2931 170 1 3.48 89.4 4th 1 3 256 13 0 3.04 89.5
1997/98 Chicago Wolves IHL 51 31 14th 3 2912 149 2 3.07 89.6 9 5 3 515 24 1 2.79 90.4
1998/99 Chicago Wolves IHL 35 20th 10 4th 2047 149 3 2.46 91.4 7th 4th 3 256 19th 1 2.71 90.5
1999/00 Chicago Wolves IHL 48 32 12 4th 2781 128 6th 2.76 90.1 9 5 3 488 27 1 3.32 86.6
2000/01 Chicago Wolves IHL 38 17th 16 3 2074 109 3 3.15 89.9 7th 2 4th 373 21st 0 3.38 88.4
OHL total 163 98 47 2 9296 590 3 3.81 41 27 7th 2420 120 2 2.97
AHL total 138 70 53 8th 7866 453 2 3.45 89.6 12 12 0 767 28 1 2.19 92.0
IHL total 335 179 105 33 18679 1054 16 3.18 89.7 45 21st 21st 2428 134 3 3.13 89.6
NHL overall 187 59 86 12 9410 618 2 3.94 87.6 2 0 1 99 6th 0 3.65 86.0

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

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personal data
SURNAME Young, Wendell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Wendell Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada