Chris Valentine

Chris Valentine ( born December 6, 1961 in Belleville, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach.

Playing career

The outstanding striker began his career in 1978/79 at St. Louis University in the NCAA league, where he was top scorer with 71 points in just 34 games. The following year, he moved to the Sorel Quebec Major Junior Eperviers in the Hockey League, where he played in Germany with Daniel Naud, who for many years (EV Landshut, Augsburg EV) and later coach was ( Augsburg and SC Bietigheim ) played together. Again, he convinced with excellent qualities scorer and scored in the season 79/80 and 80/81 128 and 142 points respectively in 72 games. You quickly became aware of the talent and so Valentine was pulled at 194 location by the Washington Capitals in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 in the 10th round. After a brief stint in the AHL with the Hershey Bears ( 21 points in 19 games ), he then moved to the best league in the world, the NHL. Until the 1983/84 season he played alternately with the Capitals in the NHL (107 games) or in their farm team in Hershey.

The Wechselei between teams from Washington and Hershey tired, he decided to go to Europe. Accordingly, for 1984/85 season, he accepted an offer of Düsseldorf EC. Although planned as a short-term commitment, he remained the rest of his career at DEG and met his congenial partner, Peter - John Lee, with whom he was nearly a decade to the top stars of the team and the league. The Center Valentine and the winger Lee conjured together 10 years for DEG and were the reason that the club after athletic lean years in the early 80s was allowed back among the top teams in the league. In DEG he broke all records player, scorte almost 1,000 points and was five times German Champion (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996 ). When he 35 -year-old ended his career in 1996, he had 571 missions, 365 goals and 598 assists are to book. Valentine's shirt number is 10, as the No. 12 his strike partner Lee, no longer awarded in his honor at DEG.

Career as a player data (including play-offs )

• St. Louis University ( NCAA) 1978/1979 - 34 Matches - 27 goals - 44 assists = 71 points - 52 minutes

Coaching career

After his playing career, he initially remained in Dusseldorf and devoted himself to work as a trainer, first 1996/1997 as a youth coach, a year later as Head Coach of the DEL teams DEG. With a completely revamped team he reached the play -offs and failed in the quarterfinals of the future master, the Adler Mannheim. Nevertheless, his style and the combat effectiveness of the team convinced the fans of the DEG so much so that today this season is called the Valentine season. Large financial problems, however, were the leaders of the Association for conviction get that a phase-out of DEL and the message is the only salvation from imminent bankruptcy for the newly founded Bundesliga single track of the DEB. Valentine, however, did not join in these sporty descent and joined the EV Landshut. There, too, he convinced as coach, but again had the bad luck that the club withdrew the 1999/2000 season for financial reasons from the league. He then accepted an offer of the hitherto highly successful under former coach Lance Nethery Adler Mannheim and coached for the next season this team. He stood from the beginning under enormous pressure to which he and the team redesigned what was available to him could not withstand. After a season already made the separation. After a one-year spell at the Berlin Capitals, who made headlines just by lack of funds, outstanding players and branch staff salaries, as well as grotesque quarrels of the club's management at the time he moved then to the 2001/02 season to the Krefeld Penguins. But here he was quite early in the season in December 2002/ 03 is replaced by the later "Master Trainer" Butch Goring after considerable dissonance with the club's management.

In December 2006, Valentine took over as coach at the Austrian Erstligaclub Liwest EHC Black Wings Linz, left the club but after the season.

Previously, this was his last coaching position, since he lives in Canada. In contrast to his long-time strike partner Peter- John Lee, who even failed as a coach, but as a manager of the DEL teams polar bear Berlin is very successful in business for several years, it was Valentine after his playing career is not permitted in hockey business more successful to have.

Others

Chris Valentines daughter Amanda (* 1990) in 2003 was German junior champion in figure skating.