Mark Recchi

Mark Louis Recchi ( born February 1, 1968 in Kamloops, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player of Italian descent, who during his active career, 1988-2011, among other things for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes, Atlanta Thrashers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins played in the National Hockey League on the position of the right winger.

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Career

Mark Recchi started his career in 1984 in the Canadian Junior Football League British Columbia Junior Hockey League at the Langley Eagles. During his first season he was also in the higher-class junior Western Hockey League four times for the New Westminster Bruins used to their tribe he belonged to the squad next season. Recchi was equal to the leading forces of the Bruins, but remained out of mannschaftliche success. He then moved in the summer of 1986 within the WHL Kamloops Blazers to. There he became one of the best players in the league and finished the season 1987/88 as the third- best scorer of the WHL with 61 goals and 93 assists in 62 games from. In the summer of 1988, he was eventually selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round at position 67, after he had previously been passed over in the two years of the teams of the National Hockey League.

Recchi did not manage the immediate jump in the NHL squad and played most of the 1988/89 season in the International Hockey League with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, the farm team of Pittsburgh. With Muskegon he won at the end of the season the Turner Cup, the championship trophy of the IHL, and was together with teammate Dave Michayluk leading scorer of the playoffs. The following year, he finally was a permanent member of the Penguins, and added with 67 points in his rookie season well into the team one. Already in the 1990/91 season was Recchi to the main players of the team and led to the internal scorers list with 113 points and finished fourth in the league behind Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull and Adam Oates. Also in the following playoff he could continue his good performances, as he contributed ten goals and 24 templates to win the Stanley Cup.

The following season, Recchi was one of the best players of the Pittsburgh Penguins again, but was transferred on 19 February 1992 to the Philadelphia Flyers. At the end of the season he was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team. 1992/93 had Recchi his best year, scoring 53 goals and prepared another 70 before, so he was once again among the top ten scorers in the league. However, the Flyers missed during this season and the season on the playoffs. The shortened due to the lockout season 1994/95 started Recchi still in Philadelphia, but was transferred after ten games to the Montreal Canadiens. In addition to Vincent Damphousse he belonged there in the following years to the major service providers in the offensive, before he moved back to Philadelphia in March 1999.

For the Flyers, he ran again in top form and was at the end of the 1999/2000 season 's third- best scorer in the NHL and led the league with 63 assists. In addition, the Flyers reached the playoffs in the final of the Eastern Conference. As a reward for his services Recchi was nominated for the Lester B. Pearson Award, which receives the best player of the season. Together with the experienced Keith Primeau, Jeremy Roenick and John LeClair and the young Simon Gagné, he led the attack of the Flyers in the following years and presented continues to be in good shape.

After the failure of the 2004/05 season due to a lockout again Recchi returned to the Pittsburgh Penguins and thus on the side of Mario Lemieux, with whom he had played in the early years of his career. He was in season 2005/ 06 to the important performers of the young men to young star Sidney Crosby. However, Recchi was transferred in March 2006 to the Carolina Hurricanes after the Penguins had no chance of qualifying for the playoffs. In Carolina, he got back to Rod Brind'Amour and Justin Williams, who in Philadelphia were already his teammates, and a few months later they won with the Hurricanes Stanley Cup.

Recchi decided after this success for a renewed return to Pittsburgh, where he obtained during the 2006/07 season on 26 January 2007 as the 38th player in the NHL history his 500th goal. Behind the young stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, he was also the third best scorer of the Penguins and they reached for the first time since 2001 the playoffs.

In June 2007, Recchi extended his expired contract for another year, but he could not build on its past performance, so that he often did not stand at the beginning of the 2007/08 season in the squad. On 4 December 2007 he was finally set by the Penguins on the waiver list, but which wanted him commit no team. After sending the farm team of the Penguins management put him back on the list, but with the difference that the team would select him not the whole, but only had to pay half his salary. He was then selected by the Atlanta Thrashers, where the coaching staff put a lot of faith in him, that he repaid with significantly increased performance. Despite the rising curve shape he remained only until the end of the season in Atlanta and moved to in transition division rivals Tampa Bay Lightning. There he continued his good form, but the team did not succeed in the hoped-for recovery and after Tampa Bay was out of the race for playoff spots, he was transferred to the Trade Deadline in March 2009 on the Boston Bruins that the at the time best team in the Eastern Conference were.

On 24 November 2010 Recchi scored in the 3-1 Bruins against the Florida Panthers his 1500th point in the NHL. He was the 13th player in the history of the league, which passed this limit. In the 2010/11 season with the Boston Bruins Recchi won the third Stanley Cup in his career and said after the last final game his playing career ended. In Boston he had last played in the second row together with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand.

Internationally

Recchi represented his native country at the Junior World Championships in 1988, where he won the gold medal. He also contested the World Championships in the years 1990, 1993 and 1997 and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. At the World Championships 1997 he also won gold.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented Canada at:

  • U20 World Junior Championships 1988
  • World Cup 1990
  • World Cup 1993
  • World Cup 1997
  • 1998 Winter Olympics

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

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