Andrew Peters
Andrew Peters ( born May 5, 1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player in the position of left winger who has played during his active career, among other things for the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League.
Career
Peters began his career at the Georgetown Raiders in the Ontario Junior Hockey League and in 1997 to the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League. A year later, at the NHL Entry Draft in 1998, he was selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round to 34th position.
His last season as a junior player, he spent with the Kitchener Rangers before 2000 on the Rochester Americans, the Sabres farm team in the AHL, changed. In the second season with the Amerks, he sat a total of 388 minutes in the penalty box, which meant a league record. For ten games his brother Geoff was used for the Amerks, the brothers shared a goal achieved (the original came from Andrew Peters, goal scored by Geoff ).
From the 2003/04 season Andrew Peters was in the NHL squad of Sabres and led them in the penalty time statistics, while he barely reached points scorer. The lockout season 2004/ 05 he spent in the Swedish Allsvenskan in soil IK, where he came up with 196 penalty minutes in 22 games. After he had spent the season 2009/10 at the New Jersey Devils, Peters signed a temporary one-year contract with the Florida Panthers in August 2010, but in early October was exchanged for Darcy Hordichuk of the Vancouver Canucks. However, the Canucks did not put him in their farm team, but continue with the Rochester Americans a. On 11 February 2011 Peters explained his playing career ended.