Dave Scatchard

Dave Scatchard ( born February 20, 1976 in Hinton, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who was active throughout his career including for the Vancouver Canucks and the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League.

Career

The 1.88 m wide center began his professional career with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL before being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 as 42 in the second round of the Vancouver Canucks ( drafted ) was.

This put the right-handed shooters, first one at the Syracuse Crunch, a farm team in the American Hockey League. His first NHL bets Scatchard graduated in the 1997/98 season, in which he could play in the ordinary cadres of the Canucks. During the season 1999 /00, the attacker was eventually transferred from Vancouver to the New York Islanders, for which he stood up to the lockout in the 2004/05 season on the ice. After a brief involvement with the Boston Bruins of the Canadians moved in 2005 to the Phoenix Coyotes, but where he could never put properly due to injuries. Since the end of a short engagement with the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL in December 2007 Scatchard was listed as a free agent.

In October 2009, he finally took after almost two years of break the Nashville Predators of the NHL under contract. They furnished him with a two-year contract with validity for the NHL and AHL, after which they him. Their farm team, the Milwaukee Admirals charges, in the AHL On 4 August 2010 he signed as a free agent contract with the St. Louis Blues, but was used in the 2010/11 season almost exclusively in the AHL with the Peoria Rivermen. In August 2011, he finished his career for health reasons, after he had suffered in the course of repeated concussions. On the advice of his doctors Scatchard retired from professional sports.

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 )