Bob Joyce

Robert Thomas " Bob" Joyce ( born July 11, 1966 in Saint John, New Brunswick ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1984 to 2000 among others for the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League, played in Düsseldorf EC and EV Landshut and Munich Barons in the DEL.

Career

Robert Joyce began his career as a hockey player in the team of the University of North Dakota, where he was active from 1984 to 1987. Previously, he was selected as a high school player in the NHL Entry Draft in 1984 in the fourth round as a total of 82 players from the Boston Bruins, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1987/88 season. In his rookie year, the attackers reached the finals with his team to the Stanley Cup, in which he was defeated by the Bruins in the best- of-seven series with a sweep of the Edmonton Oilers. On 13 December 1989 he was released to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Dave Christian, where he spent the next eighteen years in the NHL before it in May 1991, along with Tyler Larter and Kent Paynter in exchange for Craig Duncanson Brent Hughes and Simon Wheeldon was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets. For the Winnipeg Links Sniper stood in the following two seasons, only one time in the NHL on the ice and ran otherwise for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Moncton Hawks, on.

From 1993 to 1997 Joyce played two years in the International Hockey League for the Las Vegas Thunder and the Orlando Solar Bears, before he was hired by the Düsseldorf EG from the DEL, which he again after only one year due to their withdrawal from the DEL left to play for the EV Landshut. As this a year later sold his DEL license, the Canadians joined the newly established Munich Barons, with whom he 2000 German champion in the season 1999 /. Following this success, he finished his career.

Internationally

For Canada, Joyce participated in the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 in part in Calgary, where he finished fourth with his team.

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