Chris McAlpine
Christopher Walter McAlpine ( born December 1, 1971 in Roseville, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1990 to 2004 among others for the New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, Atlanta Thrashers, Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Chris McAlpine began his career as a hockey player in the team of the University of Minnesota, for up to 1994 he was active from 1990 in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With his team, he won the championship in 1993 and 1994 respectively from the University League Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Especially in the 1993/94 season he was able to convince both there and was appointed as the most valuable player in the WCHA, and elected to the first All-Star team in the league. Even as a high school player of the defenders in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 was selected in the seventh round as a total of 137 players from the New Jersey Devils. For this he gave in the 1994/95 season his debut in the National Hockey League and won with the Devils in his rookie year at first the prestigious Stanley Cup. In parallel, he came to 48 appearances for New Jersey's farm team, the Albany River Rats in the American Hockey League, with whom he won the Calder Cup. In the following one and a half years, he ran to just for the River Rats in the AHL and was eventually transferred to the St. Louis Blues.
From February 1997 to January 2000 McAlpine played regularly for the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. He then had two short-term exposures in the NHL team the Tampa Bay Lightning and Atlanta Thrashers before he was committed as a free agent by the Chicago Blackhawks on July 27, 2000. For this, and for their AHL farm team Norfolk Admirals, he took up in the next two years, before he also joined as a free agent in August 2002 to the Los Angeles Kings. However, for the Californians and their AHL farm team Manchester Monarchs he could only deny a total of 24 games since he suffered a hernia in January 2003 in an NHL game against the San Jose Sharks. On 11 September 2003, the Americans signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Wild, announced, however, to have disputed a little later without a single commitment to the team for his resignation. Eventually, however, he packed again towards the end of the season 2004/05 a total of 24 games for the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks of the AHL his skates. He then officially ended at the age of 33 years of his career.