Raffi Torres

Raphael " Raffi " Torres ( born October 8, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since April 2013 in the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League contract.

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Career

Raffi Torres began his career as a hockey player with the Brampton Battalion for which he was active from 1998 to 2001 in the Ontario Hockey League. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 in the first round as the fifth overall player of the New York Islanders, for whom he played from 2001 to 2003 in the National Hockey League. Mostly it was the two seasons but for their farm team, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League to inserts. Then the attacker was delivered to the Edmonton Oilers, where he played the next five years in the NHL, and with whom he reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2005/06 season, in which he lost his team the Carolina Hurricanes. On 1 July 2008 Torres was transferred in exchange for Gilbert Brule to the Columbus Blue Jackets, for which he in the 2008 /09 season in 51 games of the regular season scorer 20 points, including eight goals, scored. In addition, he scored gave two assists in four games during the first playoff participation of the Columbus Blue Jackets at all.

In March 2010, he was discharged to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Nathan Paetsch. In August 2010, Torres signed as a free agent a limited one-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks. On 1 July 2011, he agreed on a long-term contract with the Phoenix Coyotes.

On April 21, 2012 Torres was banned for an irregular check to the head of Chicago's Marian Hossa for a period of 25 NHL games, synonymous with the fifth- longest barrier League history. For the Trade Deadline on April 3, 2013, was delivered to the San Jose Sharks.

Internationally

For Canada Torres took part in the U20 World Youth Championship 2001, where he won the bronze medal with his team.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

  • 2001 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships

NHL stats

(End of season 2012/ 13)

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