Darren McCarty
Darren McCarty ( born April 1, 1972 in Burnaby, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and Calgary Flames 1993-2009.
Career
Darren McCarty grew up in Leamington, Ontario, and began his career in 1989 in the junior league Ontario Hockey League with the Belleville Bulls. In the 1991/92 season he scored 127 points in 65 games and made the Scouts of the National Hockey League attracted attention. In the NHL Entry Draft 1992, he was then selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round at position 46. 1992/93 he played in the American Hockey League farm team for the Detroit, the Adirondack Red Wings.
1993/94 he made his debut in the NHL and was able to immediately establish with the Red Wings. In particular, the 1996/97 season was memorable. In a mass brawl with the Colorado Avalanche, the Brawl in Hockeytown, to McCarty revenge on Claude Lemieux, who had checked in the previous year McCarty 's teammate Kris Draper into the boards, which he had suffered fractures to the face and a concussion. Ironically, it was also McCarty, who scored the winning goal in that game in extra time. The Red Wings went into the playoffs to the finals for the Stanley Cup and it was Darren McCarty, who made sure by his play decisive goal that the Cup came back after 40 years to Detroit. He also reached 49 points scored in the regular season a personal record that holds to this day.
1998 was the Red Wings defend the Stanley Cup. 2002 McCarty scored against the Colorado Avalanche in the playoffs his first hat trick in his NHL career. Detroit pulled back into the Stanley Cup final and won the third title since 1997. McCarty played the majority of his time in Detroit in the infamous " Grind Line" along with Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby.
After the NHL season was canceled in 2004/05 because of the lockout, the Red Wings Darren McCarty and parted. It has paid off McCarty and broke the contract on. In August 2005 he signed a contract with the Calgary Flames. After a solid first season, 2006/07 was followed by a weak season, which was marked by injuries and he was in 32 games without a point scorer. His contract was not renewed for the summer of 2007 by the Flames.
As McCarty wanted to take time to bring his life back into regular lanes after he was bankrupt in 2006 and even had to auction off his Stanley Cup rings, he gave in January 2008 his comeback, but only in the unterklassigen IHL at the Flint Generals. A month later he was at the Grand Rapids Griffins, the AHL farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, a sample contract until the end of the season. There he showed convincing performance, achieved in one of his first games even a hat-trick, after him the Detroit Red Wings finally gave an NHL contract until the end of the season one day before the end of the transfer window. However, McCarty was at first one and a half weeks at the Griffins, before he was brought into the NHL squad on 7 March. But his comeback in the NHL he could due to a rib injury type and remained at the start of the playoffs as a replacement for the injured Kirk Maltby in the root of the Wings squad until the end of the month. After Maltby had recovered from his injury, McCarty jumped more times because of injuries from a Johan Franzen and Tomas Holmstrom and supported the Red Wings in 17 playoff games en route to the Stanley Cup victory.
At the beginning of the season 2008/ 09 he was still in the NHL squad, but came only used occasionally, before he had to pause longer because of an injury in December. In February 2009 he returned to the AHL with the Grand Rapids Griffins back on the ice and was able to show the offensive and good. On 1 December 2009, he ended his playing career.
McCarty is distinguished first and foremost as a scorer or from preparers, but as a player who prefers a hard game and does not shrink on the ice before brawling. While he is rather unpopular with the opposing players, he enjoys great popularity with the fans.
During summer breaks, he is the lead singer of the hard rock band Grinder.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( 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 )