Darcy Tucker
Darcy Tucker ( born March 15, 1975 in Castor, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who from 1995 to 2010 for the Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League on the position of the right was winger active.
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Career
Tucker, along with Tyson Nash and Ryan Huska one of three players that all three Memorial Cup victories of the Kamloops Blazers were on the ice in 1992, 1994 and 1995. During his time with the franchise from the Canadian junior Western Hockey League winger was elected twice to the Memorial Cup All- Star team and the WHL West First All- Star team. In addition, he was elected in 1994 along with the best players in the Canadian Hockey League umbrella organization in the First All -Star team and was awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the Memorial Cup. NHL Entry Draft 1993, the Montréal Canadiens secured the rights to the youth players and finally put him in the 1995/96 season for the first time at their farm team in Fredericton Canadiens of the American Hockey League.
This season, the Canadians won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the best rookie of the season, in addition, he received first operating times with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. After two and a half years in the Canadian metropolis, where the attacker with the Canadiens twice reached the play-off quarter-finals, Tucker was transferred together with Stéphane Richer and David Wilkie in exchange for Patrick Poulin, Igor Ulanov and Mick Vukota to league rivals Tampa Bay Lightning. There, the attacker played three seasons and was eventually discharged for Mike Johnson to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In Conference Quarterfinals in 2002 checked the Canadian Michael Peca, the captain of the New York Islanders in the fifth game of the series with the hip, so this drew upon a double cruciate ligament in his left knee and turned out for several months. Against Tucker but no penalty is assessed. In the summer of 2006, the Maple Leafs Peca committed than new team-mate of the offensive player.
On 24 June 2008 Tucker became a free agent after the Toronto Maple Leafs his existing contract dissolved. A week later signed the links Sagittarius doped with a 4.5 million U.S. dollar contract with the Colorado Avalanche. After two seasons with the team from Denver, where he was unable to repeat his points haul in Toronto, Darcy Tucker announced on 1 October 2010 his retirement from active sports known.
Internationally
With the Canadian Junior National Team Darcy Tucker won the gold medal at the Junior World Cup in 1995.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 Junior World Cup in 1995
( 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 )