René Corbet

René Corbet ( born June 25, 1973 in Victoriaville, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played during his career, including for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League as well as the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga has.

Career

The 1.83m winger played in his youth at the time Voltigeurs de Drummondville in the Canadian Professional Development League Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and was finally selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 1991 in the second round of the Quebec Nordiques as 24.

Corbet was in the 1990s a regular player in the National Hockey League, among others, the Colorado Avalanche, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 1996, as well as the Pittsburgh Penguins. In 2001 the Canadians to the Adler Mannheim in the German Hockey League, where he quickly rose to the crowd favorite because of its use on the ice. However, the attacker was plagued by increasing injuries that led to the team for a long time had to do without him. In the final of the German Ice Hockey Cup 2003 Corbet in the Cologne Arena before 11,000 spectators scored a goal and won his first title with the Mannheim School. From the season 2006/ 07 the Links shooter was captain of the Eagles and won in his 250th game for the Eagles in the sold out with 13,600 spectators SAP Arena again against the Cologne Sharks the DEB - Pokal. A short time later Corbet was also German champion with the team. After the 2008/ 09 season, the Eagles gave the farewell Corbets from Mannheim known where Corbet's shirt number 20 was then "locked", that is no longer in the future will be given. On 4 October 2011 Corbet contributed his farewell game at the SAP Arena during the game against the Buffalo Sabres in the first third of the jersey again the eagle before his jersey was hung under the hall roof.

From October 2009 until the announcement of his career end in 2011 Corbet was the Norwegian first division club Frisk Tigers under contract.

Awards and achievements

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 )