Adam Foote
Adam David Vernon Foote (* July 10, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1991 to 2011, the defender completed more than 1300 games in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Colorado Avalanche and Columbus Blue Jackets. With Colorado 1996 and 2001 he won the Stanley Cup. At the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 he won the gold medal with the Canadian national team.
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Career
Foote played in his youth for Brooklin - Whitby in the play mode of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association. Together with his teammate Keith Primeau, who later started a successful NHL career, he led the team in the early 1980s for several AA OMHA Championships. After another successful season with Brooklin - Whitby defenders in the OHL Priority Selection was, where the teams of the Canadian Professional Junior League OHL can secure the rights to young talents to as " underage choice" ( German involving a minor choice) as total 21 in the second round of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds selected. For this he was already off the following season in the OHL on the ice. Overall, the right-handed shooter spent three seasons in Sault Ste. Marie, in the last season under his later NHL coach Ted Nolan. He won the 1991 J. Ross Robertson Cup, the champion trophy of the OHL, and was also elected to the First All -Star team in the league.
Already at the NHL Entry Draft 1989 Adam Foote of the Nordiques de Québec was selected as 22 in the second round and moved in 1991 in their organization. After only six games when farm team Halifax Citadel in the American Hockey League, the Canadians had already been appointed during the 1991/92 season in the NHL squad the Nordiques, where he immediately became a regular player and he to move the franchise to Denver, Colorado belonged. With the Nordiques Foote reached in 1993 for the first time the play-offs, but failed there as well in 1995, already in the first round.
In Denver, the Nordiques played from the season 1995/96 as Colorado Avalanche. In the first year in Colorado won Adam Foote with the team for the first time in his career, the Stanley Cup after the Florida Panthers were defeated in four games by a sweep in the final. With the avalanche of Defense also reached in the following years, without exception, the play-offs, winning seven other Division title until the franchise was finally able to repeat the success of the Stanley Cup win in 2001. After the lockout in the season 2004/ 05, which had to be canceled completely due to a players strike and in the Foote, in contrast to many colleagues no tiefklassigeren or European team joined, the Canadians moved after nine years with the Colorado Avalanche to the Columbus Blue Jackets. There he wrote on August 1, 2005 doped with 13.5 million U.S. dollars three-year contract. After he first held the office of the assistant captain, who right shooter was appointed captain of the team even after the resignation of Luke Richardson in December of the same year.
With the Blue Jackets Columbius Adam Foote missed the play-offs twice and was finally transferred in exchange for a first-round draft law back to Colorado Avalanche only two hours before the Trade Deadline 2008. Later that evening was the Canadians from the second third against Calgary Flames for the Avalanche on the ice. On 30 June 2008, the defender extended his contract in Denver, which was endowed with three million U.S. dollars per season, for a further two years.
As the longtime captain Joe Sakic before the start of season 2009/10 withdrew from active sports, Foote was appointed as the new captain. He was only the second captain in franchise history after Sakic. His expiring contract was extended to the end of the season to another season, but at a much lower salary. Adam Foote was April 8, 2011 that he will retire from the sport as a player at the end of the NHL season 2010/11 known. He played his last game for Colorado on April 10 in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Edmonton Oilers.
Internationally
With Canadian ice hockey team Adam Foote won at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City gold medal, as well as he could with the team celebrate winning the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. In addition, the defensive player represented the Team Canada at the 1998 Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics and the World Cup of Hockey 1996.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- 1998 Winter Olympics
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- 2006 Winter Olympics
( 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 )