Scott Lachance
Scott Joseph Lachance ( born October 22, 1972 in Charlottesville, Virginia ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who during his active career Between 1992 and 2007, among others, for the New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks and Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League has played at the position of the defender.
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Career
Lachance played initially between 1988 and 1990 at the Springfield Olympics in the New England Junior Hockey League, where he came up with 102 points scorer in 70 games. In the fall of 1990, the defender moved to Boston University, where he played one year for the ice hockey team in the Hockey East, one of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division. With the so-called Terriers, the then 19 - year-old won at the end of the season the championship of the Hockey East and was selected in the summer of 1991 in the NHL Entry Draft in the first round in fourth position of the New York Islanders.
Before Lachance joined the professional sector, he joined the American Hockey Association USA Hockey and prepared with the team large parts of the season 1991 /92 on the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, and also played the World Youth Championship in 1992, before he aground at the Olympic Games. After the Winter Games of the defenders ran on for the rest of the season with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League. In the following seven seasons Lachance was a fixture in the squad and was only in March 1999, when the Islanders changed their team in many parts transferred to the Montréal Canadiens. In return, the Islanders were given a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999. 's Career section was crowned at the Islanders by participating in the NHL All-Star Game in 1997.
In the French Canadians but the defender was running on only until the summer of 2000, when he joined as a free agent for two seasons the Vancouver Canucks. He then joined also on as a free agent for two years to 2004, the Columbus Blue Jackets. Due to the lockout - induced failure of the NHL season 2004/ 05 Lachance paused a year with the hockey games and found the 2005/ 06 not a new NHL team that signed him. Then he moved abroad for the first time and spent the season in Switzerland. There he was active for the Kloten Flyers of the National League A. But in the summer of 2006 he returned to North America already, and spent his last professional season with the Albany Devils in the American Hockey League.
Internationally
Lachance played for his country United States for the first time at the Junior World Cup in 1991, when he was elected to the All- Star team of the tournament. At the Junior World Championships 1992, he won with the Americans the bronze medal and remained still at the Association, to prepare for the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France. There, the Americans finished fourth.
Self had Lachance at the World Championships in 1996, 1997 and 1999. During the World Cup in 1996 in the Austrian capital Vienna, he won a bronze medal.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 1991
- U20 World Junior Championships 1992
- 1992 Winter Olympic Games
- World Cup 1996
- World Cup 1997
- 1999 World Cup
( 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 )