Bryan Trottier

Bryan John Trottier ( born July 18, 1956 in Val Marie, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian- American professional ice hockey player and coach, who played from 1975 to 1994 for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. He is currently active as the Director of Player Development in the organization of the New York Islanders.

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Career

Bryan Trottier grew up on a ranch with cattle. The age of nine he was at the rodeo. He had learned on a river to skate, but only ten years old he was allowed to play in a team. While this improved steadily, he joined the side as a musician with his family in bars. When the New York Islanders to the Swift Current Broncos tried to buy a farm team to move with them to Lethbridge, they remembered Bryan Trottier on. In the NHL Amateur Draft 1974, the Islanders Bryan picked in the 2nd round as 22 players. After an excellent year in Lethbridge, he made ​​the jump to the NHL. In his first season he broke Marcel Dionne record with 95 points. In his early years he played with Clark Gillies and Billy Harris in a row the Long Iceland Lightning Company was called. From the season 1977/78 was replaced by Billy Harris Mike Bossy. The new series called Trio Grande. In the heyday of the Islanders, he was one of the leading players, along with Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin and was instrumental in the four Stanley Cup victories 1980 until 1983. When the Islanders did not renew his contract, he wanted to finish with 33 years of his career. He decided, however, once again to continue with the Pittsburgh Penguins and won there in 1991 and 1992, the Stanley Cup. He is one of five players who could win with two different teams at least twice the Cup.

After his playing career, he was from 1994 to 1997 assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins and spent the next four years in the same position with the Colorado Avalanche, where he received in 2001 his seventh Stanley Cup ring. In 2002, he was responsible for 56 games, the New York Rangers as a head coach. 2006 Trottier returned to the New York Islanders back as Director of Player Development and is responsible for the training of young people.

In 1997 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Islanders locked his number 19 on 20 October 2001, as a banner hangs from the ceiling of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum ever since.

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented Canada at:

• U20 World Junior Championships 1975
• Canada Cup 1981

Represented the U.S. at:

• Canada Cup 1984

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Records

• 5 seconds to the first goal in a game (March 22, 1984; Bruins - Islanders 3:3 ) together with 2 other players.
• 18 consecutive playoff games in a season with at least one point ( 1981, 11 goals and 18 assists).
• 27 consecutive playoff games with at least one point (1980, 7 games, 3 goals and 5 assists in 1981, 11 goals and 18 assists; 1982 2 games, 2 goals and 3 assists ).