Pat Verbeek
Pat Verbeek ( born May 24, 1964 in Sarnia, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played from 1982 to 2002 for the New Jersey Devils, Hartford Whalers, New York Rangers, Dallas Stars and the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League. He currently works as a scout for the Detroit Red Wings.
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Career
In the Sudbury Wolves in the OHL Verbeek already showed what ought to be distinguished him throughout his career. He led the statistics not only at the scorer points, but also in the penalty time. For these properties, the New Jersey Devils picked him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 in the third round as 43 He stayed a year in Sudbury and came at the end of the season to a few missions in the NHL.
From the 1983/84 season Verbeek had his place in the NHL and won with 20 goals he had a good rookie season. In his fifth full season 1987/88 he was able to improve his stats again and had both his 77 scorer points, and 227 penalty minutes decisive role in ensuring that the Devils finally made the jump into the playoffs. There she made it to the Conference Finals, where the Boston Bruins after seven games were the last stop.
He was released to the Hartford Whalers in 1989. There, too, he was always among the Topscorern, it brought but mostly on more than 200 penalty minutes. In 1991 he was elected to the All-Star team since 1992, he was captain of the Whalers. In 1995 he moved on to the New York Rangers. During this time he got by Glenn Healy after an altercation with Ray Ferraro nicknamed " Big Ball of Hate ". As early as 1996 went on the trip to the Dallas Stars. There he was able in 1999 his first Stanley Cup win. This was followed by 2 years with the Detroit Red Wings, before returning to the 2001/02 season to Dallas. After the season Pat Verbeek finished his career. No other player in the NHL, who came to just under 3,000 penalty minutes, made it about 500 to score goals.
After end of his career he worked partly for the television FSN Detroit as an analyst at playing the Detroit Red Wings. In 2006 he gave up this position and became one of the Pro Scouts of the Red Wings. His duties mainly concern the views of players from other teams that you can undertake by transfer or as a free agent.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 1983
- World Cup 1989
- World Cup 1994
- 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 )