Barry Potomski
Barry Potomski (* November 24, 1972 in Windsor, Ontario, † May 24, 2011 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played between 1989 and 2001, among others, for the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.
Career
Potomski first played three years from 1989 to 1992 with the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League, where, however, no NHL team secured the rights to it ( so-called " drafting "). Therefore, he moved to the 1992/93 season in the East Coast Hockey League, where he had a brief stint with the Erie Panthers before he was transferred in the course of the season for the Toledo Storm. With the Storm, he won in the season 1992/93 the Riley Cup, the championship of the ECHL. There was a brief interlude at the Anaheim Bullfrogs in the summer of 1993 in the professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International, for the links Sagittarius 13 matches completed, scored 19 points and spent 56 minutes in the penalty box. He then returned in the game 1993/94, back to the Toledo Storm back before the Adirondack Red Wings of the American Hockey League took him under contract during the season, which he finished the season.
On July 7, 1994, he signed as a free agent contract with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, which initially exert their right winger at the Phoenix Roadrunners of the International Hockey League. After he had played there the entire 1994/95 season and part of the 1995/96 season, the Kings picked him for the first time in the NHL squad and put him in 33 games. The same picture emerged in the course of the season 1996/97 he spent also between the IHL and NHL. After three years in the franchise the Los Angeles Kings, he signed on August 15, 1997 as a free agent contract with the San Jose Sharks, where he came to another eight missions in the NHL during the season 1997/98. However, he left the Sharks after a year and joined in August 1998 as a free agent back in the organization of the Detroit Red Wings, for their farm team, the Adirondack Red Wings, he had already played in the 1993/94 season. The Red Wings put the Canadians exclusively in a farm team. After the 1998/99 season Potomski signed again with another club. This time, his target, which he left again after the 1999/00 season and spent his last professional season with the Idaho Steelheads League rivals the San Diego Gulls of the West Coast Hockey League.
On 24 May 2011 Potomski collapsed in a gym his home town of Windsor, and died shortly afterwards.