Zarley Zalapski

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Zarley Zalapski
Date of birth April 22, 1968
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
date of death December 12, 2017
Place of death Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1986 , 1st lap, 4th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1984-1985 Fort Saskatchewan Traders
1985-1988 Hockey Canada
1988-1991 Pittsburgh Penguins
1991-1994 Hartford Whalers
1994-1998 Calgary Flames
1998 Canadiens de Montréal
1998-1999 ZSC Lions
1999-2000 Utah grizzlies
2000 Philadelphia Flyers
2000-2001 Houston Eros
2001 Munich Barons
2001-2002 HC Merano
2002-2003 Esbjerg IK
IF Björklöven
2004-2005 Kalamazoo Wings
2005-2006 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
HC Innsbruck
HC Martingy
EHC Visp
2006-2007 EHC Chur
2007-2008 EHC Biel
2008-2009 EHC Olten
2009-2010 Lausanne HC

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / file type

Zarley Bennett Zalapski (born April 22, 1968 in Edmonton , Alberta , † December 12, 2017 in Calgary , Alberta) was a Swiss - Canadian ice hockey player who played 685 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins , among others, between 1984 and 2010 . Hartford Whalers , Calgary Flames , Canadiens de Montréal and Philadelphia Flyers played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender .

Career

Zalapski played for the Fort Saskatchewan Traders in the Alberta Junior Hockey League between 1984 and 1986 during his junior years . Thanks to good performance, he was from the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL Entry Draft in 1986 drafted in the first round in fourth place. Then the defender was recruited by the Canadian ice hockey association Hockey Canada and prepared over two years for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . There he finished fourth with the team, which he had also achieved at the 1987 World Cup .

At the end of the 1987/88 season, the Penguins brought Zalapski into the National Hockey League . After playing only 15 games in the NHL, it was only the following season that was his rookie season . He played a convincing round and was chosen together with Brian Leetch in the defense of the NHL All-Rookie Team . The attacking strong Zalapski became one of the best defenders in the league. In March 1991 he joined the Hartford Whalers with John Cullen and Jeff Parker . In return, Ron Francis , Grant Jennings and Ulf Samuelsson came to the Penguins.

Instead of winning the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh , he played for the Whalers from then on. There he managed as a defender to reach over 50 points scorer twice in a row . He stayed in Hartford for almost three years, but shortly before the end of the 1993/94 season he was given to the Calgary Flames together with James Patrick and Michael Nylander for Gary Suter , Paul Ranheim and Ted Drury . In Calgary he was no longer as successful as in previous years. He missed most of the 1996/97 season due to a knee injury. Recovered, the following season went on to the Canadiens de Montréal in February . There Valeri Bure was part of the barter business that moved to Calgary for Zalapski. The time in Montreal was not successful and so it attracted Zalapski the 1998/99 season to Europe, where he worked in the Swiss National League A for the ZSC Lions aground.

For the 1999/2000 season he followed an offer from the New York Rangers back to the NHL, but did not make the jump to the team. Instead, he played in the International Hockey League for the Long Beach Ice Dogs and the Utah Grizzlies . He made his NHL comeback during the season with twelve games for the Philadelphia Flyers . After starting the following season in the IHL with the Houston Eros , he moved to the Munich Barons in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) during the 2000/01 season . The following season he spent in Merano , Italy , before he spent the 2002/03 season for IF Björklöven in the Swedish Allsvenskan , the second division, and Esbjerg IK in Denmark. After a one-year break and returning to North America to join the Kalamazoo Wings in the United Hockey League , he returned to Switzerland. Thanks to his marriage to a Swiss woman, he had received a Swiss passport and from then on no longer burdened the quota of foreigners.

In the 2005/06 season he played with the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers , HC Martigny and EHC Visp and HC Innsbruck in Austria. At the end of last season he initially resigned as an active ice hockey player. But after the summer break, he decided to continue his career and kept fit at EHC Olten and EHC Chur before he was signed by EHC Biel for the following season in early September 2007 . For the 2009/10 season he was signed by the Lausanne Hockey Club . After a season with the Lausanne team, Zalapski announced his retirement.

He died on December 12, 2017 of complications from a viral infection at the age of 49 in Calgary, Canada.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Fort Saskatchewan Traders AJHL 23 17th 30th 47 14th - - - - -
1985/86 Fort Saskatchewan Traders AJHL 27 20th 33 53 47 - - - - -
1985/86 Team Canada International 32 2 4th 6th 10
1986/87 Team Canada International 74 11 29 40 28
1987/88 Team Canada International 55 4th 16 20th 34
1987/88 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 15th 3 8th 11 7th - - - - -
1988/89 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 12 33 45 57 11 1 8th 9 13
1989/90 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 51 6th 25th 31 37 - - - - -
1990/91 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 26th 12 36 48 59 - - - - -
1990/91 Hartford Whalers NHL 11 3 3 6th 6th 6th 1 3 4th 8th
1991/92 Hartford Whalers NHL 79 20th 37 57 120 7th 3 6th 9 8th
1992/93 Hartford Whalers NHL 83 14th 51 65 94 - - - - -
1993/94 Hartford Whalers NHL 56 7th 30th 37 56 - - - - -
1993/94 Calgary Flames NHL 13 3 7th 10 8th 7th 0 3 3 2
1994/95 Calgary Flames NHL 48 4th 24 28 46 7th 0 4th 4th 4th
1995/96 Calgary Flames NHL 80 12 17th 29 115 4th 0 1 1 10
1996/97 Calgary Flames NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1997/98 Calgary Flames NHL 35 2 7th 9 41 - - - - -
1997/98 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 28 1 5 6th 22nd 6th 0 1 1 4th
1998/99 ZSC Lions NLA 11 1 5 6th 37 3 1 0 1 4th
1999/00 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 12 0 2 2 6th - - - - -
1999/00 Long Beach Ice Dogs IHL 7th 0 5 5 6th - - - - -
1999/00 Utah grizzlies IHL 54 4th 24 28 69 5 1 1 2 4th
2000/01 Houston Eros IHL 9 0 2 2 12 - - - - -
2000/01 Munich Barons DEL 20th 3 3 6th 43 3 0 0 0 2
2001/02 HC Merano Series A1 26th 5 9 14th 12 2 0 0 0 2
2002/03 Esbjerg IK SuperBest leagues 5 0 6th 6th 0 - - - - -
2002/03 IF Björklöven Allsvenskan 14th 1 4th 5 6th 3 1 0 0 0 2
2003/04 without a contract not played
2004/05 Kalamazoo Wings UHL 11 2 2 4th 12 - - - - -
2005/06 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers NLA 4th 0 1 1 18th - - - - -
2005/06 HC Innsbruck EBEL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2005/06 HC Martigny NLB 4th 0 0 0 29 - - - - -
2005/06 EHC Visp NLB 6th 0 2 2 8th - - - - -
2006/07 EHC Chur NLB 5 1 5 6th 36 - - - - -
2007/08 EHC Biel NLB 33 2 14th 16 46 - - - - -
2008/09 EHC Olten NLB 35 2 18th 20th 56 - - - - -
2008/09 Lausanne HC NLB 2 0 1 1 2 21st 2 7th 9 28
2009/10 Lausanne HC NLB 28 1 6th 7th 36 20th 1 4th 5 20th
AJHL total 50 37 63 100 61 - - - - -
IHL total 81 6th 33 39 99 5 1 1 2 4th
NHL overall 637 99 285 384 648 48 4th 23 27 47
NLB total 113 6th 46 52 213 41 3 11 14th 48
NLA total 15th 1 7th 8th 74 3 1 0 1 4th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1987 Canada WM 4th Place 10 0 3 3 2
1988 Canada Olympia 4th Place 8th 1 3 4th 2
Men overall 18th 1 6th 7th 4th

( 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. Swiss-Canadian Zalapski died , accessed on December 12, 2017
  2. a b c d e f Former NHL defenseman Zarley Zalapski played in the Olympics at 19. In: theglobeandmail.com. January 2, 2018, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Zarley Zalapski against Caps there. In: berliner-kurier.de. January 16, 2001, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  4. a b c Ex-hockey star Zarley Zalapski died of a viral infection. In: blick.ch . December 14, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 .