Lyle Odelein
Lyle Theodore Odelein ( born July 21, 1968 in Quill Lake, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who, during his career total of 1,142 games for the Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, Phoenix Coyotes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars Florida Panthers and Pittsburgh Penguins played in the National Hockey League. His brothers Selmar and Lee were also professional hockey players.
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Career
Odelein began his junior career in the 1984/85 season with the Regina Pat Canadians in the Saskatchewan Midget Hockey League. There, he scored in 26 games 25 points scorer and received 30 penalty minutes. Subsequently, the then stocked with qualities in the offensive, but physically hard playing defender moved to the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Western Hockey League. After his first season in the WHL in which he scored 46 points in 67 games, the 17 -year-old in the NHL Entry Draft, was selected in 1986 in the seventh round at 141 instead of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. Odelein remained two more years in Moose Jaw, increasing its yield point initially to 59 in as many games. This was followed by his third and final season in the juniors with 58 points scorer in 63 games.
In the summer of 1988, the Canadians finally moved at the age of 20 years in the professional sector. The Montreal Canadiens put him in the 1988/89 season, a first in equal parts with the Peoria Rivermen of the International Hockey League and the Sherbrooke Canadiens of the American Hockey League. During the 36 games with ten points should remain in the course of his career, his single in the IHL, another 68 joined the 33 games for the Canadiens in the AHL in the 1988/ 89 nor in the 1989/90 season added. In 116 games, he scored 51 points and 469 penalty minutes. The most successful were the play-offs in 1990, when he came on, eleven points in twelve games.
With the start of the 1989/90 season the defender was partially to NHL squad of Montreal Canadiens. The renowned defensive squad, which included, among other things, Craig Ludwig, Chris Chelios and Petr Svoboda, Odelein came on but only eight missions. Here he succeeded in two assists to gates. In the following season, his operations increased significantly. The now mainly active defensive defender played including the playoffs 64 times, prepared as in the previous year, but also two gates before. The game year 1991/92 then waited on with his first NHL goal and setting a new record of eight points, before the 1992/93 season was followed by the highlight of the career of the defender. The Canadiens won by a 4-1 final series victory over the Los Angeles Kings to the Stanley Cup. Odelein increased in the regular season, his point yield at 16 and had a plus / minus score of 35 is the best of the entire team on. In the season 1993/94 the defenders finally turned on also Karrierebestmarken in the categories of goals, assists, points and penalty minutes. He scored eleven goals, prepared in front of 29, came as 40 points scorer and spent 276 minutes in the penalty box.
After two more years in the French-Canadian metropolis of its time ended with the Canadiens on August 22, 1996, when he was released in exchange for striker Stephane Richer to the league rivals New Jersey Devils. The Devils of Canadians spent three and a half years with constant point better yields and plus / minus balance sheets than in his last two years in Montreal. With the change for Deron Quint and a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 on 7 March 2000 began for the defender a time with many club changes.
Only 21 games played Odelein March-April 2000 because after he failed to agree to the season on a new contract with the franchise from the state of Arizona and this expansion so unprotected sent him to the NHL Draft in 2000. There, he was elected from the newly founded team of the Columbus Blue Jackets. With experience of eleven NHL seasons, the management finally appointed the defender for the first team captain of the franchise. With 17 points in the 2000/01 season and 16 in the 2001 /02 Odelein showed true that the required leadership skills on the offensive, Plus / Minus balances of -16 and -28 considered the club's management but to him on March 19, 2002 for the Czechs Jaroslav Spacek and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 to give the Chicago Blackhawks. However Odelein remained only one year in Chicago, as the Blackhawks charges him on 10 March 2003 for the Finnish Sami Helenius and a seventh -round choice of law in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 to the Dallas Stars. After just five games for Dallas Odelein became a so-called Unrestricted free agent and took in the summer of 2003 a contract offer of the Florida Panthers. For this, he completed the following season, which was to be his first in which he completed all the games of his team.
After a year break from hockey by the strike-related failure of the NHL season 2004/ 05 the Canadians finally changed for the eighth and final NHL team in his career. On 2 September 2005, he signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins. After 27 games his last should be in the NHL at the same time, he finished the season with a knee injury and did not return to the league.
Internationally
Odelein represented his native country only at the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 at an international level. The defensive specialist, during the course of the tournament in two of the eight parts of the Canadian teams to use. He remained no points and received no penalty minutes. Canada went on to win the silver medal of the competition, after it had been unsuccessful in the three games of the final series the United States twice.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )