Jason York
Jason York ( born May 20, 1970 in Nepean, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played from 1992 to 2007 for the Detroit Red Wings, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Ottawa Senators, Nashville Predators and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.
Career
York played during his junior time for the Hamilton Steel Hawks, Windsor Spitfires and Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League. He was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in the seventh round in a total of 127 position of the Detroit Red Wings. From 1991 to 1993, the defender played almost exclusively with the farm team of the Red Wings, the Adirondack Red Wings in the American Hockey League. The season 1993/94 spent York at farm team, played 74 games in the AHL and scored a total of 66 points scorer.
After York until 1995 he completed only 19 NHL inserts for the Red Wings, the leaders gave him away to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The move to Anaheim brought the defenders more match practice. In almost two years with the Ducks, he received 94 applications in the NHL, where he was able to achieve 32 points and also received 100 penalty minutes. After that Californians exchanged the defender Shaun Van Allen and Ted Drury and sent him for it as compensation to the Ottawa Senators.
York remained for five years in Ottawa and even became the key players of the senator. Here, in each game year succeeded in gaining the playoffs, but in which the team failed early. In 2001, he returned to Anaheim. He made it into the starting line- of Californians, however, was the following season for their farm team, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks deported and completed only four games in the farm team.
In 2002, the Nashville Predators took him under contract. There he established himself as a mainstay on the defensive the Predators and was in the 2003/04 season with the team qualify for the playoffs. After the failure of the 2004 /05 due to a several-month strike of 2005 Canadians moved to Switzerland for HC Lugano. There he fell on mainly because of his hard play and sat in 34 games total of 122 minutes on the penalty bench. After the contract expires in Lugano, he returned to the United States and signed a contract with the Boston Bruins. In Boston, he brought it even to 49 NHL games before he ended his active career.