Drake Berehowsky
Drake Berehowsky ( born January 3, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. During his career he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks and Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League. In the season 2005/ 06 he was with the polar bear from Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga German masters.
Career
Berehowsky began his career in 1988 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Kingston Raiders. He was already in his first season with the top performers and scored in 63 games 46 points scorer. After the team at the beginning of the season 1989/90 changed hands and is now on Kingston Frontenacs called, he lost his place, showed in only nine games, which he completed, yet good performance. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1990, he was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round to tenth place overall. In 1990, the learned defender got the first time to prove himself in the NHL the chance. It was used in eight games and scored one Assist In the following years played the right shooter mainly in the American Hockey League for the St. John 's Maple Leafs, the former farm team of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The 1992/ 93 occurred sporty particularly positive. In addition to always perform well in the AHL, he played himself in the squad of the Toronto Maple Leafs and was able to achieve 19 points scorer in 41 games, and have a plus / minus stats by 1.
At the end of the season 1994/95 joined the then 23 -year-old the Pittsburgh Penguins at. Also in Pittsburgh him not made a breakthrough. After another quite successful station in the Edmonton Oilers, stood for 67 times on the ice, he signed as a free agent in the summer of 1998, a contract with the then League newcomer Nashville Predators. Here Berehowsky developed for regular players and performers. In the three years that he stood by the Predators under contract, he completed 219 games and scored 73 points.
Other career positions in the following years were in addition to the Phoenix Coyotes and the Vancouver Canucks, with whom he was eliminated in the first round of the play -offs in 2001. There was a new brief interlude in Pittsburgh, before he in his hometown, returned to Toronto. During the 2003/ 04 season There he graduated in the end only nine games, but was able to reach where the team just with 2:4 games failed in a hard-fought series to the Philadelphia Flyers with the Maple Leafs, the play-off semi-finals of the Eastern Conference.
During the NHL lockout of 2004/05 season he played in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan for Skellefteå AIK. After a further subsequent season with the San Antonio Rampage in the AHL, could convince him during the current season of a commitment in the German capital Berlin, the management of polar bears. Berehowsky was then 19 times the jersey of the polar bear and crowned his career in the end with the German title. After the 2005/06 season he finished at the age of 34 years, his playing career and began to act in the coach area. His first stop was an assistant coaching job with the Barrie Colts of the OHL in the 2007/ 08 season. Another commitment in the same function followed from 2009 to 2012 with the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League. Then took Berehowsky in June 2012 as head coach with the Orlando Solar Bears of the newly founded ECHL first time managing a franchise.