Jim McKenzie (ice hockey b. 1969)
Jim McKenzie ( born November 3, 1969 in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1987 to 2004 among others for the Hartford Whalers, Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Anaheim Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Washington Capitals, New jersey Devils and Nashville Predators played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Jim McKenzie began his career as a hockey player in Canada's top junior Western Hockey League in which he was active for the Moose Jaw Warriors and Victoria Cougars from 1987 to 1989. During this period he was in the fourth round selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 as a total of 73 players from the Hartford Whalers, where he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1989/90 season, where he remained no points in five games. In the following season, the attacker won with Hartford's farm team of the American Hockey League, the Springfield Indians, the Calder Cup. After it was used in the subsequent period as a regular player regularly in the NHL squad the Whalers, the links Sagittarius before this request on the same day to the Dallas Stars was first issued on 16 December 1993 in exchange for the Ukrainians Oleksandr Hodynjuk to the Florida Panthers, further transferred. The 1993/94 season he finally ended at the Pittsburgh Penguins, who took in exchange for Mike Needham shortly before the end of the Trade Deadline under contract.
In the season 1994/95 McKenzie also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He then spent a year with the Winnipeg Jets. When these were resettled in 1996, he remained in the franchise, and signed with their successor team Phoenix Coyotes, where he ran aground and 1998 in the NHL. In the following two years, the winger for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Washington Capitals was active before he received as a free agent on July 3, 2000 an agreement with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he for in the 2002/ 03 first and only time the prestigious Stanley Cup won. After he got the following season for the Nashville Predators on the ice, he finished his career.