Jim Carey (ice hockey)

Jim Carey ( born May 31, 1974 in Dorchester, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender who played during his career between 1995 and 1999 for the Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League.

Career

Jim Carey was drawn by the Washington Capitals in the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in the second round ( total number 32 ) and was at that time already been compared with the young Tom Barrasso, who has been honored with 19 years as the best goalie of the season. He played the next two years for the Wisconsin Badgers, the University of team from the University of Wisconsin in the WCHA before he came to the start of the 1994/95 season in the NHL to Washington and failed to impress in his first year. Although he was just 20 years old, he became the number 1 in the team and at the end of the season for the Vezina Trophy, which is awarded to the most outstanding goalie of the NHL season nominated, and came to the vote in 3rd place and still many other honors added. So he ended up voting for the Calder Memorial Trophy, which gets the best rookie, ranked second The press went, as a new star was born.

The 1995/96 season should be at least as successful as his first. Carey played outstanding. Completed a total of 71 games and made nine shutouts. The reward: He was elected a few weeks after his 22nd birthday on the outstanding goalie of the NHL season and was awarded the Vezina Trophy. However, things did not go quite so smoothly in the play -offs and he was briefly replaced by Olaf Kolzig out of the gate. Nevertheless, he was the young star of the Capitals.

Not quite so round it ran into the following season 1996 / 97th Although he delivered a solid performance, but it lacked the power of the first two years. On 1 March 1997 he was transferred to a large transfer business to the Boston Bruins, where he could not recover from its crisis, until the end of the season. On the contrary, he plunged even deeper into the hole performance. Carey could not understand why he was transferred from Washington to Boston, doubted himself and therefore had mental problems. In addition, the press fell upon him and criticized Carey's performance massively.

At the start of season 1997/ 98, the Boston Bruins with Byron Dafoe impose on a new goalkeeper Jim Carey displaced as number 1, which further plunged him into the psychological depth. The result was that he completed only 10 games in the NHL and did not play as the Boston Bruins in the first playoff round on Carey's former team from Washington met. In the following season 1998/99 he completed over no more playing for the Boston Bruins. He played in the time for the farm team in the AHL second-rate one good season before he was released on 1 March 1999 by the Boston Bruins. He got in the same season still has a contract with the St. Louis Blues for which he went four times on the ice. But the contract was not renewed after the season.

St. Louis was the last stop in his career, because Jim Carey signed since no contract more at an ice hockey team. Firstly, because he had to stay longer in this business and on the other no longer wanted because no team wanted to sign him as number 1. So he finished, who was already with 22 years of the best goalkeepers in the league and one of the greatest talents was in 1999 at the age of 25 years of his career. Carey has never spoken publicly about his career end, but is quietly disappeared from the hockey business.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )