Brad May

Brad May ( born November 29, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who during his active career, among other things, for the Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche, Anaheim Ducks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings was active in the National Hockey League.

Career

Brad May was selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 by the Buffalo Sabres as a total of 14 players in the first round. Prior to May 1988 was active for the Niagara Falls Thunder in the Ontario Hockey League. After seven successful years with a total of five playoff appearances with the Sabres, he was replaced on 4 February 1998 against Geoff Sanderson to the Vancouver Canucks. In his Canadian home May remained for three years in order starting from the season 2000/ 01 aground for the Phoenix Coyotes. Towards the end of the season 2002/ 03, the attacker returned to his former club Vancouver Canucks. During the lockout the NHL season 2004/ 05 May was one of the few players that any club joined in Europe or one of the other North American professional leagues.

On August 20, 2005 May signed as a free agent a two-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche. Even before his contract expired on February 27, 2007, May was issued in exchange for goalie Michael Wall to the Anaheim Ducks and still won in the same season for the first time in his career, the Stanley Cup. In the playoffs, the attacker was previously run in 18 games. Overall, May remained until January 2009 in California, before the former general manager of the Ducks, Brian Burke, who was now employed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, engaged him in exchange for a conditional sixth- round performance suffrage in NHL Entry Draft 2010.

Brad May completed on April 8, 2009 in the game against the Buffalo Sabres his 1000th NHL game. In October 2009, May signed a one - year contract with the Detroit Red Wings. In September 2010, he declared his active career to be over and now works as an analyst of the American Hockey League for CBC Sports.

Incident in 2000

As a player of Phoenix Coyotes May was closed in November 2000 for 20 NHL games, he struck the attacker the Columbus Blue Jackets, Steve Heinze his stick against the nose. This had to be sewn with nine stitches. After the game he apologized to Heinze, who accepted May's apology. At this time, the 20 - game penalty was the fourth-longest in NHL history at all.

Steve Moore's career end

May was partly responsible for the retirement of Steve Moore, who was so seriously injured by Todd Bertuzzi during a game that he had to end his career. They threw May claims to have placed a bounty on Moore. This went against May in court, but the suit was later dropped.

Kim Johnsson

Brad May was locked in the Stanley Cup playoffs of the season 2006/ 07 for three games after he beat Kim Johnsson of the Minnesota Wild in the closing minutes of the fourth game in the face. Without any warning, May turned around and beat down Johnsson, who was then lying unconscious on the ice a short time. May ripped the still unconscious Johnsson high to throw him to the ground again. Johnsson, however, was not seriously injured.

Awards and achievements

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