Chris Govedaris
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Chris Govedaris ( born February 2, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former Canadian- Greek hockey player who has played during its active period from 1986 to 2002, including for the Hartford Whalers and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
Career
Govedaris began his career in 1986 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Toronto Marlboros. There, the then 16 -year-old was able to steadily improve and was already in his first year at the best scorers on the team. In the 1986/87 season he was able to achieve 64 points scorer in 64 games. Even then played the robust striker körbetontes Hockey and collected 148 penalty minutes. After another highly successful season in Toronto, the NHL scouts were aware of him. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1988, it was the Hartford Whalers, who selected him in the first round at a total eleventh position.
He then played one more season with the Marlboros, before in 1990 he signed a contract with the Hartford Whalers signed. Those responsible for the Whalers put the 1.85 m wide and 98 kg left-handed shooters in the following years, mostly in the American Hockey League with the Springfield Indians, the former farm team, a. Despite good performances, he could not prevail in the NHL. In the four years that he was at the Whalers under contract, he was only 33 NHL bets and scoring six points scorer.
In the summer of 1993, he joined as a free agent in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Again, he played almost exclusively in the AHL with the St. John 's Maple Leafs. After only one year, he left again the club and the Detroit Red Wings joined to him but only in their farm team, the Adirondack Red Wings, exert.
After he finally hardly figured chances of a lasting commitment in the NHL, he decided in 1996 for a change in the German Hockey League to the polar bear Berlin. Here he belonged immediately to the root cadres and was one of the top performers in the team. With the polar bears, Canadian-born celebrated great success with Greek roots. In addition to the successes in the DEL, he reached the third place in the European Hockey League in 1998/99, and twice second in the IIHF Continental Cup in 1997 and 1999. After five seasons, he left in 2001 the club and joined the Swedish second division Leksand IF on, with whom he immediately achieved promotion to the Elitserien. He then finished his career at the age of 32 years.
Internationally
For the Canadian national Govedaris participated in the 1995 World Cup in Sweden and won the bronze medal with his team. Overall, he came in eight games for use and scoring a goal. He also had a plus / minus stats by 1.