Daymond Langkow
Daymond Randolph Langkow ( born September 27, 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Since August 2011, he plays for the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League on the position of the center. His older brother Scott is also a professional hockey player.
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Career
The 1.78 m wide center began his career in 1991 with the Tri -City Americans in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League. In the 1994/95 WHL season, the striker scored 140 points scorer in 72 games, for which he was awarded the Bob Clarke Trophy as the best points scorer of the WHL. In addition, he was appointed to this season in the WHL West and the Canadian Hockey League All- Star team. NHL Entry Draft 1995, the Center was selected in the first round in fifth position of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Langkow spent one more season with the Americans in the WHL and played from the NHL season 1996/97 on a regular basis for Tampa in the National Hockey League. To date, Langkow is the top scorer in the history of the Tri -City Americans.
His first NHL use graduated from the links contactors from 7 October 1995 in a game against the Lightning, the Calgary Flames. His first goal is scored, the attacker had on 19 November 1996 against Los Angeles. Langkow was appointed in February 1997 for the NHL rookie of the month of February. In the 1997/98 NHL season, his points yield and reduced the Lightning sent the players to their farm team, the Adirondack Red Wings in the American Hockey League. Langkow refused to play for the team unterklassige, after which he was suspended from the organization. The striker missed seven league games before he was pardoned by Tampa Bay and called back into the NHL squad.
After the player had started the season 1998/99 at the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League, the Tampa Bay Lightning Langkow and Mikael Renberg transferred on December 12, 1998 in exchange for Chris Gratton and Mike Sillinger to the Philadelphia Flyers. There Langkow completed by the end of the season 2000/ 01 over 200 games. Before the start of the NHL season 2001/ 02, the player was transferred from the Flyers to the Phoenix Coyotes. Philadelphia received in return Phoenix ' second-round draft pick for the NHL Entry Draft in 2002, and their first-round draft pick for the Entry Draft in 2003. In the 2003 /04 season Langkowm ran on as an assistant captain of the Coyotes.
Daymond Langkow signed before the season 2004 /05 a new one-year contract worth 2.95 million dollars. However, the Phoenix Coyotes transferred the center two weeks later in exchange for Denis Gauthier and Oleg Saprykin to the Calgary Flames. However, the season turned out due to a players strike, Langkow played during this season, unlike many other NHL pros, not for another club in another league.
In Calgary, the player could set new personal records and offensive was nominated following the 2006/07 season of the Flames for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. In the season 2008/ 09 Langkow was missing due to a hand injury nine games and scored less than 50 points scoring for the first time in nine years. March 21, 2010 Daymond Langkow suffered a spinal cord injury after he blocked a shot with his neck in the game against the Minnesota Wild. Due to the violation of the attacker lacked the Flames for the rest of the season and also the majority of the NHL season 2010/11, in which it was used only in the last four games. Following the season he was nominated together with Ray Emery and Ian Laperrière for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. For Langkow it was after 2007, the second nomination of his career, the trophy eventually won Laperrière.
29 August 2011 Langkow was transferred in exchange for Lee Stempniak to the Phoenix Coyotes.
Internationally
Daymond Langkow took the Canadian national team in 1996 at the U20 World Youth Championship. The Canadians won at this tournament in the final against the Swedish selection for a 4-1 win the gold medal. Langkow came in five games for use and scoring three goals and three assists.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 1996
( 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 )