Clint Malarchuk
Clint Malarchuk Regan ( born May 1, 1961 in Grande Prairie, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres played in the National Hockey League from 1981 to 1992. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Calgary Flames.
Career
Clint was drawn to 74th place by the Quebec Nordiques in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 and played in his first year as a professional a solid role in the AHL with 51 games for the Fredericton Express. In the 1982/83 season he commuted between the National Hockey League and the Minors where he received along with Brian Ford Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Award for the best goalkeeper of team of the American Hockey League.
The breakthrough in the National Hockey League came when he played 54 games for the Quebec Nordiques and was appointed as a substitute goalie in the NHL All Stars for the Rendez -vous '87 Series 1986/87. Even though he was the first goalkeeper in the Nordiques during those years, he had his best seasons when he shared the number one item with another goalie. For example, the end of the 80er/Anfang 90 at the Buffalo Sabres as he shared this job with Daren Puppa, but little by little of this has been displaced.
1991/92 then ended his NHL career and he spent from the season 1992/93 the rest of his career in the Minors. There he played in the IHL for the San Diego Gulls ( IHL where he in his first year, the most wins (34 ) recorded the same) and Las Vegas Thunder. The Thunder has not been awarded his jersey number as a first in the history of the team after his career in late 1997.
Throughout his career, he played nearly 700 games as a professional, including over 300 games in the NHL. Since August 2, 2006 was Clint Malarchuk of the Goalkeeping coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL). He is currently employed by the Calgary Flames.
The accident
In one of the first games following his move from Washington to the Sabres, he obtained the same tragic celebrity. During the game against the St. Louis Blues on March 22, 1989, a scene that actually seemed completely normal and in every match occurs more than once occurred: Steve Tuttle of the Blues stormed to the guarded gate of Malarchuk and was by the German defenders Sabres, Uwe Krupp, distressed. Tuttle but lost his balance and fell with the leg extended into the crease where his ice Malarchuk hit the unprotected neck, and so cut open his jugular vein. Clint immediately took the mask from his head, while there is already formed a large pool of blood as a result of severe blood loss.
The loss of blood was so strong that he had died in a few minutes if it is not one of the maintainers - a Vietnam War veteran - would have appeased the bleeding immediately by in putting his finger to the arrival of the emergency physician in the artery. The wound was finally sewn in the ambulance. Although he was told that he would be out for the rest of the season, he was four days later already back in training and a week later was even back on the ice.
This accident prompted many goalies to wear a neck guard and went as one of the most horrific hockey accident in history.
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Awards and achievements
Career as a coach
In 2002, Malarchuk the post as goalkeeping coach of the Florida Panthers and coached for two years, among other things Roberto Luongo, who was nominated for the Vezina Trophy in 2004 as the best goalkeeper in the NHL. The 2004/05 season he spent as an assistant coach in the AHL with the San Antonio Rampage, the farm team of the Panthers. Since 2006 he was a goalkeeper coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets. June 2011 he was taken by the Calgary Flames as a goalkeeper coach.