Chris Therien
Christopher Bowie Therien ( born December 14, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played during his playing career 1994-2006 for the Philadelphia Flyers and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he won the silver medal with the Canadian National Team.
Career
Therien began his career in 1988 in his hometown of Ottawa at the Ottawa Junior Senators in the Canadian Junior Hockey League. For this, he played in the 1988/89 season, some games and started the season 1989/90 there. About the high school team of the Northwood Huskies, where he played until the summer of 1990 in the U.S. state of New York, the defender came to the U.S. college system. The defender, who had been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in the third round to 47th by the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, then moved to Providence College. He was also active for the ice hockey team in the Hockey East, one of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division, in addition to his studies in the following three years. During this time he received in 1991 the appointment to the All- Rookie team in the league and two years later to the Second All- Star Team.
Before joining the franchise the Philadelphia Flyers to Therien joined in autumn 1993 for the Canadian Hockey Association Hockey Canada and began to prepare for the ice hockey tournament of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway there. During the tournament came Therien in six of the eight Canadian games used. In the final, the maple leaves Sweden was defeated in the shootout.
After completion of the Olympic Winter Games, the Canadian returned to North America. He went to the end of the season 1993/94 until January 1995 for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League on the ice before he was taken at the beginning of late begun NHL season 1994/95 in the squad the Flyers. Therien was All- Rookie Team appointed to the NHL at the end of the season and remained until March 2004, a total of Philadelphia. His best game of the year was the 1996/97 season, when he set with 22 assists, 24 points and a plus / minus score of 27 Karrierebestmarken. In addition, the Flyers reached the finals for the Stanley Cup, in which they clearly were subject to the Detroit Red Wings. He scored the most goals in the 1995/96 season, when he met six times.
Theriens nine years with the Flyers came on 8 March 2004 to an end, as it is for an eight -round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 and a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2005 to the Dallas Stars. For this the defender denied until the end of the season 2003 / 04 16 games. As the following season in the NHL completely failed due to the lockout, the Canadians paused a year with the hockey. In August, has become a Unrestricted Free Agent players then returned to the Philadelphia Flyers. During the season 2005/ 06 a head injury forced him but to end his career.