Robyn Regehr
Robyn Regehr (* 18 April 1980 in Recife, Brazil ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since April 2013, with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League contract. His younger brother Richie is also a professional hockey player.
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Career
The 1.91 m wide defender, was born the son of a Mennonite family in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. After he had spent his first three years in Brazil, he went with his family to Indonesia on the island of Java, where he remained four years.
1999 Regehr was involved in a serious car accident when his car near his home town of Rosthern, Saskatchewan was hit by another vehicle. Two people in the other car were killed, Regehr himself suffered fractures in both shins.
He began his career with the Kamloops Blazers in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League before he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 as the 19th player in the first round by the Colorado Avalanche.
Even before the links Sagittarius completed a game for the Avalanche, he was on 28 February 1999 in a barter together with Rene Corbet, Wade Belak and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 in exchange for Theoren Fleury and Chris Dingman to the Calgary Flames transferred. There he stood first in the AHL squad of Calgary farm team Saint John Flames, but relatively quickly, he managed to jump into the NHL squad of Flames, which he temporarily as an alternative captain, was a member until the end of season 2010/11 continuously. On October 28, 1999, he made his debut in the National Hockey League, as the defense was in the game against the Ottawa Senators for the Flames on the ice. Regehr 's athlete ambassador of development organization Right to Play.
On 25 June 2011, the Flames together with Aleš Kotalík and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 in exchange for Chris Butler and Paul Byron to the Buffalo Sabres gave him off. Beginning of April 2013 he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for two second-round selection in the NHL Entry Drafts rights in 2014 and 2015.
Internationally
Regehr played for the first time at the U20 World Junior Championship in 1999 for his home country, where he won the silver medal. A year later he represented the seniors selection at the World Cup 2000, but without success. Due to its strong performance in the 2003/04 season Regehr was appointed to the Canadian national team, with whom he won the World Cup of Hockey 2004. Two years later he was part of the squad of Canada at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin. In addition, Regehr was 2005 Vice World Champion with the Canadians.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 Junior World Championship 1999
- World Cup 2000
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 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 )