Mike Eastwood
Michael Barry Eastwood ( born July 1, 1967 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his active career, among other things, for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins was active on the position of the center in the National Hockey League.
Career
Mike Eastwood played for the Nepean Raiders, before the striker in the calendar year In 1986, within the Central Junior A Hockey League, a Canadian junior league unterklassige to the Pembroke Lumber Kings. During this time, the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL secured the rights to the offensive player when they selected the attacker in the fifth round at a total of 91 NHL Entry Draft position of 1987. For the season 1987/88 he began studying at Western Michigan University and went for the ice hockey team, called Broncos, in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association on the ice. After a rookie season with 13 points in 42 games Scorer succeeded the center forward in each of the next three seasons to increase his points yield significantly. So Eastwood finished the season 1990/91 with a record of 29 goals and 32 assists, for which the Canadians was rewarded with a nomination in the Second All- Star Team of the CCHA. With 61 points, he was the top scoring player in the Broncos, finishing in seventh place in the league internal scorers list.
Relatively early in the course of the season 1991/92, on November 16, 1991, Eastwood made his debut for Toronto in the National Hockey League, as the striker ran aground in the game against the Chicago Blackhawks. The largest part of the season he spent but in the farm team for the St. John 's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League, with which the Canadians failed only in the Calder Cup Finals in the Adirondack Red Wings. In the following season kept Eastwood his place in the AHL farm team in St. John's at. His first NHL goal in the regular season for the Maple Leafs posted the right shooter on March 27, 1993 against the Edmonton Oilers. During the 1993/94 season Eastwood finally established as a key component in the Toronto NHL squad. In the same season, the striker headed in 18 play-off games with five points to move into the third round, before the team defeated the Vancouver Canucks.
During the shortened because of a lockout discharged NHL season 1994 /95, the Maple Leafs transferred in April 1995 the Center together with a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 in exchange for Tie Domi to the Winnipeg Jets. For the Jets of Canadians, however, only slightly more than a year ran on before the franchise was relocated in the summer of 1996 in the U.S. state of Arizona and renamed Phoenix Coyotes. In spring 1997, Eastwood continued his career on the east coast, since it charges the Coyotes along with Dallas Eakins in exchange for Jayson More to the New York Rangers. Also for the Blue Shirts of Canadians was about a year active before this brought him in March 1998 as part of a barter trade, Harry York of the St. Louis Blues in the Madison Square Garden, transferred as compensation to St. Louis.
Eastwood graduated in the jersey of the Blues statistically successful career section in the NHL and reached during this period in the 1999/2000 season with a points haul of 19 goals and 15 assists in 79 games of the regular season 's best record. The time of the right-handed shooters in the jersey of the Blues ended in December 2002 after the Chicago Blackhawks had to present on the Waiverliste Eastwood selected. After the season 2002/ 03 he signed as a free agent a contract for one season with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Subsequently, the striker ended his active career.