Grant Fuhr
Grant Fuhr ( born September 28, 1962 Spruce Grove, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goalie who from 1981 to 2000 for the Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues and Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League played. The five-time Stanley Cup winner was admitted in 2004 as the first African- Canadians in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Phoenix Coyotes.
Career
Grant Fuhr's professional career began in 1979 at the Victoria Cougars in the WHL. After two years there, where he was the best goalkeeper in the league once, he was pulled in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 already in the first round as a whole eighth of the Edmonton Oilers. Start of the season 1981 he made his debut in the best league in the world. In Edmonton he stayed for nine years, and he helped out in the meantime briefly in the AHL at the Moncton Alpines ( 10 games) and the Cape Breton Oilers (6 games). When Rendez -vous '87 he stood in the gate of NHL teams. In 1990 he was banned because of the ingestion of cocaine six months. After one and a half years with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1991-1993), he joined during the 1992/93 season to the Buffalo Sabres, where he also briefly in the AHL farm team, the Rochester Americans played. The Sabres had sent for him, among others, Dave Andreychuk and Daren Puppa to Toronto. The next club change took place shortly before the end of the 1994/95 season, he namely ended with the Los Angeles Kings. However, after only 14 games it took Grant Fuhr to the St. Louis Blues. Here he played for four years, but his last season, he completed 1999/2000 of the Calgary Flames. In the 19 years in which he played in the NHL, he completed 867 games.
For the Canadian ice hockey team vehicle ran on, among others, at the Canada Cup in 1984 and 1987. In both tournaments he won the gold medal with the team.
From 2000 to 2002, he worked for goalie issues with the Calgary Flames in an advisory position and took over in the summer of 2004 the job as goalkeeper coach of the Phoenix Coyotes.