Bill Houlder

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CanadaCanada  Bill Houlder Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 11, 1967
place of birth Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 4th round, 82nd position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
1984-1987 North Bay Centennials
1987-1990 Washington Capitals
1990-1993 Buffalo Sabers
1993-1994 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1994-1995 St. Louis Blues
1995-1997 Tampa Bay Lightning
1997-1999 San Jose Sharks
1999 Tampa Bay Lightning
1999-2003 Nashville Predators

William K. "Bill" Houlder (born March 11, 1967 in Thunder Bay , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 876 games for the Washington Capitals , Buffalo Sabers during his playing career between 1984 and 2003 , Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , St. Louis Blues , Tampa Bay Lightning , San Jose Sharks and Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . Since summer 2017, Houlder has been the assistant coach of the North Bay Centennials in the Ontario Hockey League .

Career

Houlder first played three years from 1984 to 1987 with the North Bay Centennials in the Ontario Hockey League . He was able to increase his number of points every year. After being in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round at the 82nd position from the Washington Capitals was selected, he moved to the 1987-88 season playing professionally in the Franchise of the capital. By the end of the 1989/90 season , the defender spent the season between the NHL squad and the farm team in the minor league . Even after moving to the Buffalo Sabers , the same fate overtook him in the following three seasons.

In his final season with the Sabers farm team, the San Diego Gulls from the International Hockey League , he was awarded the Governor's Trophy for the best defender in the league after scoring 72 points in 64 games. It was not until the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft changed to the newly founded Mighty Ducks of Anaheim that Houlder received a regular place in the squad of an NHL club. During his year-long engagement with the Mighty Ducks, he played the best NHL season of his career with 39 points in 80 games.

Nevertheless, the Anaheim management transferred him to the St. Louis Blues in August 1995 for Jason Marshall , where he was able to build on the performance of the previous year with 18 points from 41 games in the lockout- shortened season 1994/95 . As a free agent , the Canadian changed team again in the summer of 1995 and ran for two years for the Tampa Bay Lightning before he went to the San Jose Sharks on a free agent basis before the 1997/98 season .

After two years in San Jose, Houlder was part of a five-player transfer deal that sent him, Andrei Sjusin , Steve Guolla and Shawn Burr back to Tampa Bay for Niklas Sundström and a draft suffrage. There, Houlder took over the position of team captain for the first 14 games of the season before he was selected from the waiver list by the Nashville Predators . After four seasons with the Predators, he ended his active career after the 2002/03 season .

Since summer 2017, Houlder has been the assistant coach of the North Bay Centennials in the Ontario Hockey League.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 North Bay Centennials OHL 66 4th 20th 24 37 8th 0 0 0 2
1985/86 North Bay Centennials OHL 59 5 30th 35 97 10 1 6th 7th 12
1986/87 North Bay Centennials OHL 62 17th 51 68 68 22nd 4th 19th 23 20th
1987/88 Fort Wayne Comet IHL 43 10 14th 24 32 - - - - -
1987/88 Washington Capitals NHL 30th 1 2 3 10 - - - - -
1988/89 Baltimore Skipjacks AHL 65 10 36 46 50 - - - - -
1988/89 Washington Capitals NHL 8th 0 3 3 4th - - - - -
1989/90 Baltimore Skipjacks AHL 26th 3 7th 10 12 7th 0 2 2 2
1989/90 Washington Capitals NHL 41 1 11 12 28 - - - - -
1990/91 Rochester Americans AHL 69 13 53 66 28 15th 5 13 18th 4th
1990/91 Buffalo Sabers NHL 7th 0 2 2 4th - - - - -
1991/92 Rochester Americans AHL 42 8th 26th 34 16 16 5 6th 11 4th
1991/92 Buffalo Sabers NHL 10 1 0 1 8th - - - - -
1992/93 San Diego Gulls IHL 64 24 48 72 39 - - - - -
1992/93 Buffalo Sabers NHL 15th 3 5 8th 6th 8th 0 2 2 4th
1993/94 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 80 14th 25th 39 40 - - - - -
1994/95 St. Louis Blues NHL 41 5 13 18th 20th 4th 1 1 2 0
1995/96 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 61 5 23 28 22nd 6th 0 1 1 4th
1996/97 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 79 4th 21st 25th 30th - - - - -
1997/98 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 7th 25th 32 48 6th 1 2 3 2
1998/99 San Jose Sharks NHL 76 9 23 32 40 6th 3 0 3 4th
1999/00 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 14th 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
1999/00 Nashville Predators NHL 57 2 12 14th 24 - - - - -
2000/01 Nashville Predators NHL 81 4th 12 16 40 - - - - -
2001/02 Nashville Predators NHL 82 0 8th 8th 40 - - - - -
2002/03 Nashville Predators NHL 82 2 4th 6th 46 - - - - -
OHL total 187 26th 101 127 202 40 5 25th 30th 34
AHL total 202 34 122 156 106 38 10 21st 31 10
IHL total 107 34 62 96 71 - - - - -
NHL overall 846 59 191 250 412 30th 5 6th 11 14th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Houlder, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houlder, William K. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Thunder Bay , Ontario, Canada