Paul Laus

Paul Laus ( born September 26, 1970 in Beamsville, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who has played at the position Defender among others for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League during his playing career 1987-2002. Laus embodied the type of player the Enforcer.

Career

Laus played during his time with the St. Catharines Junior Falcons before moving in 1987 to the Hamilton Steel Hawks in the Ontario Hockey League. After one year there he joined for the next two years the league rival Niagara Falls Thunder, where he was until 1990. Already during the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 selected the defender in the second round by 37 out of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

After moving into the professional sector in the summer of 1990 Laus first played in the Minor Leagues International Hockey League and East Coast Hockey League. He ran to the end of the 1992/93 season for the Albany Choppers, Muskegon Lumberjacks and Cleveland Lumberjacks in the IHL and the Knoxville Cherokees in the ECHL on. Only by the selection in the NHL Expansion Draft 1993 - the Pittsburgh Penguins did not protect him - with the newly recorded in the National Hockey League Florida Panthers managed the Enforcer the jump to the NHL.

With the beginning of season 1993/94 Laus belonged to the squad of the team from the state of Florida. Finally, a regular place he acquired at the beginning of the following season. This was followed in 1995/ 96 jump in the final series for the Stanley Cup, which clearly lost the Panthers against the Colorado Avalanche before he set in the 1996/97 season personal records in the categories assists, points scorer and penalty minutes. By the year 2000, the Canadian was an integral part of the squad. A groin injury eventually led him from November 2000 fails long and when he was fit again, he was injured in January 2002 at the wrist. This injury forced him to that, he completed his last NHL games in the 2001/ 02 season. Due to the lengthy injury he missed the entire 2002/ 03, after which he announced on 20 September 2003, the end of his active career.

Career Stats

( 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 )