Chris Herperger
Chris Herperger ( born February 24, 1974 in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who, in the course of his career for the Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and Atlanta Thrashers in the National Hockey League as well as for the Krefeld Penguins and Hannover Scorpions in the German Hockey League was active.
Career
Herperger began his career with the Swift Current Broncos in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL, for which he was on the ice from 1990 to 1993 a total of two and a half seasons. Was then introduced from the center of the Seattle Thunderbirds, where he again played until 1995, two and a half years. In his junior career, the Canadians played a total of 278 missions in which he came up with 137 goals and 277 points. This brought Herperger a draw in the 10th round at the NHL Entry Draft in 1992, when the Philadelphia Flyers their rights secured at position 223. Even in his final junior season, the attacker completed his first few games for the Hershey Bears, the farm team of the Flyers in the American Hockey League.
In these four games Herperger far had no point, in the following two years he came, however, for the Bears and the Baltimore Bandits to 134 games in which the Canadians was successful with 29 goals and 66 points. After a year with the Team Canada, the striker returned to the International Hockey League, via the Indianapolis Ice, he came in the season 1998 /99 on the organization of the Chicago Blackhawks. In the farm team Cleveland Lumberjacks Herperger completed 73 games in which he was able to record both 22 goals and 48 points and 122 penalty minutes.
These values applied to the attacker, the first missions in the Blackhawks one for which he was allowed to enter in the following nine times, still without points, NHL ice. Nevertheless Herpergers performances were good enough that he was appointed to the NHL after just nine games the following season and now remained the full season in the best league in the world. The Canadians worked in these 61 inserts a reputation as a strong third - row player and could also posted ten goals and 25 points, he was only 20 penalty minutes extremely fair.
As a free agent Herperger finally signed for season 2001 /02 a contract with Premier League rivals Ottawa Senators, for which he completed another full season with 72 missions, four goals and 13 points. However, the Senators gave the center forward from after the season to the Atlanta Thrashers, where he however directly start of the season suffered a concussion and could only deny 27 applications. Re-injury threw Herperger back again, so he still only came into use in the AHL with the Chicago Wolves.
In January, the Senators traded the rights to Herperger with the Vancouver Canucks, for their farm team, the Manitoba Moose, he completed another 15 games before put him a new concussion knocked out and his season ended. Even at the Moose played the attacker along with his later Krefeld teammate Justin Kurtz. Since his chances of another NHL involvement appeared rather low, he signed a contract with the then reigning German champion Krefeld Penguins.
Already in a preseason game in Dusseldorf to Herperger made a brawl in which an opponent came up behind him and so grabbed her arm and tossed them about, that he dislocated his shoulder and weeks turned out for the season. Though the season was disappointing for both the CEC and Herperger, the club took the option true on a contract extension. Together with his strike partner Alexander Selivanov was Herperger at the beginning of the season 2004/ 05 of the dominant players in the entire league. On 17 December 2005, the Canadians could enter against the Polar Bears Berlin as first scorer in the newly opened Royal Palace in the history books.
In the season 2005/ 06 was Herperger team captain of the Krefeld Penguins, yet still be up for the 2006 season running 07 / contract was terminated on 5 August 2006 by mutual agreement. The 2006/07 season spent the attacker at the Kloten Flyers in Switzerland, where he came up with 33 points in 44 games. For the season 2007/ 08, the Canadian returned to the German Hockey League, where he was engaged by the Hannover Scorpions. There, however, he injured himself in a duel to the gang in January in league play against Straubing Tigers so unhappy that made him who diagnosed Syndesmosebandriss for the rest of the season out of action.
Herperger was in season 2009/10 German champion with the Hannover Scorpions, before he ended his career in March 2013.
Awards and achievements
- 2009 Participation at the DEL All-Star Game
- 2010 German champion with the Hannover Scorpions
Career Stats
( 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 )