Brent Gilchrist
Brent Gilchrist ( born April 3, 1967 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1983 to 2003 among others for the Canadiens de Montréal, Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Nashville Predators played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Brent Gilchrist began his career as a hockey player in Canadian junior Western Hockey League in which he was active for the Kelowna Wings and Spokane Chiefs 1983-1987. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1985 in the fourth round as a total of 79 players from the Canadiens de Montréal, for their farm team, the Sherbrooke Canadiens of the American Hockey League, he played towards the end of the 1986/87 season for the first time. After he was allowed to accumulate exclusively for Sherbrooke in the AHL and in the following season, gave the winger in the 1988/89 season his debut in the National Hockey League. In his rookie year he came up with 58 games in which he scored nine goals and had 17 assists. In addition, he played nine games in the AHL Sherbrooke, for which he ran aground the last time in his career.
From 1989 to 1992, Gilchrist always a place in the NHL team the Canadiens before he was a fourth- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 to the Edmonton Oilers was transferred along with Shayne Corson and Vladimír Vůjtek in exchange for Vincent Damphousse and. In Edmonton, however, he did not even spent a full year and was discharged Stars already on 5 March 1993 to the Minnesota North. For his new club, he stood up to the end of season eight times on the ice and gave it one assist. Subsequently, the franchise was relocated and the links Sagittarius played four years at Minnesota's successor team Dallas Stars.
On August 1, 1997 Gilchrist signed a contract as a free agent with the Detroit Red Wings, with whom he at first was the prestigious Stanley Cup win in the 1997/98 season. For this success he contributed with 30 points scorers, including 15 goals, in 76 games. Following this success, he was selected on 5 October 1998 in the NHL Waiver Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning, but transferred back already on the same day. In the following two years, the Canadians suffering from the effects of a hernia and could only sporadically accumulate in the NHL. Then he no longer was back to his old form and was committed in February 2002 from his former club Dallas Stars. The season 2002/ 03 he joined the Nashville Predators, but had to prematurely end his career due to a serious back injury he received in a game against his former club Edmonton Oilers at the age of 36 years.