Adrien Plavsic
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Adrien Plavsic ( born January 13, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach, who has a contract with HC La Chaux -de-Fonds in the National League B since 2012.
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Career
Adrien Plavsic began his career as a hockey player at the University of New Hampshire, where he studied from 1987 to 1988, while he was active in parallel for their hockey team in the Hockey East. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the second round than a total of 30 players from the St. Louis Blues. After spending the 1988/89 season when Team Canada with international friendlies, was the defender in the 1989/90 season his debut for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League. However, for St. Louis, he came only to four inserts in the NHL, as he spent most of the season with their farm team in Peoria Rivermen of the International Hockey League. In March 1990 he was discharged from St. Louis in the NHL at the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he also ran aground until the end of the season as for their IHL farm team Milwaukee Admirals. From 1990 to 1995, the Canadian was a regular for the Vancouver Canucks, for their new farm team Hamilton Canucks of the American Hockey League, he also completed two games. At the end of the shortened because of a lockout season 1994/95 he was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he scored two goals and an assist in 15 NHL games to end the season. However, in the following season, he completed only seven more games for Tampa Bay in the NHL, as he spent the entire rest of the time in their IHL farm team Atlanta Knights. A similar thing happened to him in the 1996/97 season, when he was only used six times for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and spent the entire rest of the season at the Long Beach Ice Dogs in the IHL.
For the 1997/98 season Plavsic went to Europe, where he played for the Revierlöwen Oberhausen in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. From 1998 to 2002 he ran in the Swiss National League A for the ZSC Lions. With them he won the Swiss Championship in the season 1999 /2000. He thereby scored the decisive goal in a 4-3 sixth -final match against HC Lugano ten seconds before the end of normal time and so enabled the ZSC their first league title after 39 years. 2000/ 01 he managed with the ZSC Lions defend their title. After a year's break from the Hockey Olympian ran from 1992 in 2003/04 season for the EHC Basel, with whom he had to accept relegation to the second-class National League B at the end of the season. In the 2005/06 season he played for the Basel and Lausanne HC in the NLB before he was active with Basel in the NLA 2005-2008 again. After re- descent with his team in the 2007/ 08 season, he had to stop due to a serious knee injury for two years with the professional hockey before he took from 2010 to 2012 again for Basel in the NLB. Even before the season 2009/10 he enlisted as an assistant coach on the coaching staff of the EHC Basel. In this function he was also after his return to the ice at the EHC active. For the 2012/13 season he joined the NLB participants HC La Chaux -de-Fonds on.
Internationally
For Canada Plavsic took part in the U20 Junior World Cup 1990, where he won the gold medal with his team. In addition, he was in the squad of his country at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992, where he won the silver medal with Canada.
Awards and achievements
- 2000 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions
- 2000 NLA Defender of the Year
- 2001 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions
Internationally
Statistics
(End of season 2011 /12)