Gary Shuchuk
Gary Shuchuk ( born February 17, 1967 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who played in his time from 1986 to 2004 among others for the Detroit Red Wings and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League.
Career
Gary Shuchuk began his career as a hockey player in the team of the University of Wisconsin, where he was active from 1986 to 1990. During this period, he was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL Supplemental Draft in 1988 as 22 players for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the season 1990/91, which he in his rookie year in nine games three points scorer including a goal scored. However, the rest of the time in the franchise of the Detroit Red Wings he spent at their farm team, the Adirondack Red Wings of the American Hockey League, with whom he won the Calder Cup in the 1991/92 season.
On 29 January 1993 Shuchuk was submitted along with Jimmy Carson and Marc Potvin in exchange for Paul Coffey, Sylvain Couturier and Jim Hiller to the Los Angeles Kings, with whom he entered the end of the season in the Stanley Cup final, in which he and his team the record winner Montreal Canadiens defeated. After another three years in Los Angeles, the attacker played in the season 1996/97 exclusively for the Houston Aeros in the AHL. Then the Canadians first went to Europe, where he was awarded a contract in the Swiss National League A at promoted SC Herisau. He then spent one season with the EC KAC in the Austrian Hockey League, before he returned for the 1999/2000 season to North America, where it ran aground on the Orlando Solar Bears of the International Hockey League.
In the summer of 2000 Shuchuk was obliged by the EC Düsseldorf, which had in the previous season reaches the re-emergence in the German Hockey League. After only a year the former NHL players joined their league rivals Krefeld Penguins, with whom he became German champion as captain in the 2002/03 season. Then he signed with the AHL Springfield Falcons team where he participated as player-manager in 2004 ended his career after one season.