Marty Turco

Marty Turco ( born August 13, 1975 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, who was most recently with the Boston Bruins under contract.

Career

Marty Turco was 124 selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 by the Dallas Stars in the fifth round in position. After the draft, he played for the University of Michigan in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, where he drew attention to himself with good benefits. In summer 1998, he joined the International Hockey League with the Michigan K- Wings where he played for two years and could be recommended for the National Hockey League.

At the beginning of the 2000/01 season the Stars invited him to their NHL squad. As number two behind Ed Belfour, he played the season and was awarded the Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award at the end of the goalkeeper with the best fishing quota. After another season as a substitute goalkeeper Turco, after Ed Belfour left the team, the number one Dallas Stars. And at the end of the 2002/03 season he was voted All-Star Team in the NHL and second with the honored for the second time Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award, where his Goals Against Average with a 1.72 record was the " modern era" in the NHL - the record was broken a year later by Miikka Kiprusoff. In the following season brought Marty Turco a great achievement, but again had the Dallas Stars no chance in the championship fight. Had Turco played an excellent regular season, so he brought only weak performance in the playoffs. Nevertheless, he received recognition for his performance and was elected the first keeper of the Western Conference in the NHL All-Star Game in 2004.

The 2004/05 season fell out in the NHL because of the lockout, Marty Turco joined the Swedish Elitserien to Djurgårdens IF, but remained only a month. In the season 2005/ 06 he was playing very well and was able to win 41 games, which he set a personal record and in third place was the league among goalies. Although (2nd place in the Western Conference ), his team went as one of the main favorites in the playoffs, there were already in the first round of a bitter off against the Colorado Avalanche as the defensive stars and especially Turco again showed weaknesses.

In the 2006/07 season Turco was again a member of the Western All-Star team, where he was awarded by two goals in the final period to win. The stars were in sixth in the West after a partially successful regular season in the playoffs and they were a clear loss to the Vancouver Canucks predicted to Roberto Luongo, precisely because Turcos old instability in the playoffs. Although the Stars lost the series almost 3:4, but Turco managed in all three wins a shutout, so in each case without conceding a goal. He thus showed that the experts had possibly made ​​a mistake in it. This he proved definitively the following year, as the Dallas Stars in fifth place going into the playoffs, the two Stanley Cup co-favorites Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks defeated. Turco was doing with excellent services to the supports of the team. Only in the Western Conference Finals, they failed 4-2 later in the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings.

Turcos expiring contract was not renewed in the summer of 2010. At first he could not find a new club and was taken in August from the Stanley Cup winners, the Chicago Blackhawks under contract after it could not agree with their former goalkeeper Antti Niemi to a contract. After the end of the season 2010/11 did not renew his contract this.

After Turco was signed in December 2011 for the duration of the final tournament of the European Trophy in 2011 by the EC Red Bull Salzburg, which he won with the people of Salzburg, he signed a contract until the end of January 2012 to the end of the season with the same club. After the early departure of Salzburg in the quarterfinals Turco returned to the NHL. There he was engaged on March 5, 2012 for the rest of the season 2011/12 of the Boston Bruins. Then he ended his active career.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

  • 2005 Silver medal at the World Championships

NHL 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 )

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