Bruce Driver
Bruce Driver ( born April 29, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in his time from 1980 to 1998 among others for the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.
Career
Bruce Driver began his career as a hockey player in the team of the University of Wisconsin -Madison, where he was active from 1980 to 1983 and in 1982 and 1983 respectively won the championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. During this period, the defender was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 in the sixth round as the 108th overall player of the Colorado Rockies. After their resettlement in 1982 the rights to Driver went on to Colorado's successor Team New Jersey Devils, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1983/84 season. He also won with New Jersey's farm team, the Maine Mariners of the American Hockey League, the end of the season the Calder Cup. The majority of the playtime spent the links Sagittarius but with the Canadian national team, with whom he completed a total of 68 games in preparation for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
With the New Jersey Devils, for which he was twelve years active, Driver won in the 1994/95 season the prestigious Stanley Cup. To success was the Canadians with five goals and 18 Assists in 58 games in total. Then he signed on 28 September 1995 as a free agent contract with the New York Rangers for the NHL he got another three years on the ice, before 1998 at the age of 36 ended his career. On the occasion of the Heroes of Hockey Game, which took place as part of the NHL All- Star Games, in 2001 he packed once the skates.
Internationally
For Canada Driver attended the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in part, in which he finished fourth with his team.