Scott Pellerin
Scott Jacqueline Frederick Pellerin ( born January 9, 1970 in Shediac, New Brunswick ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active career, among other things, for the New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues, Minnesota Wild, Carolina Hurricanes, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars and Phoenix Coyotes was active on the position of the left winger in the National Hockey League. Since July 2012, he has been head coach of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League.
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Career
Scott Pellerin first played from 1985 to 1988 for the Moncton Flyers, Notre Dame Midget Hounds and Notre Dame Hounds - for the latter case in the second class Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League - in unterklassigen Canadian junior leagues before the striker for the season 1988/89 to study at the University of Maine and started for the ice hockey team in the Hockey East went on the ice. During this time, the New Jersey Devils secured the rights to the NHL offensive player when they selected the aggressor in the third round at a total of 47 NHL Entry Draft position of 1989. Already in his rookie season, he impressed with 29 goals, 33 assists and 62 points in 45 games and Scorer Award after his debut season together with Rob Gaudreau as the best newcomer of the Hockey East. His 62 points were scored in the 1988/89 season, the third most in the Hockey East; only Tim Sweeney from Boston College, and Pellerin teammate Dave Capuano were successful.
In the following three seasons kept the links contactors his high level of performance and managed to be recorded in each season in the team from the University of Maine on 20 results. The season 1991/92 ended the Canadians with a personal record of 32 goals, making the striker, along with Jean -Yves Roy led the scorers of the Hockey East. His achievements have also been rewarded with several nominations in selecting teams in the league and finally crowned by winning the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the best college player of the year. Then he came for the New Jersey Devils in their AHL farm team to the Utica Devils, for which Pellerin during the AHL playoffs in the spring of 1992 made his professional debut. The season 1992/93 the attacker spent mainly in the NHL squad the Devils, but also denied some encounters in the jersey of the Utica Devils. The following season the links Sagittarius completed only one NHL game for the New Jersey Devils; the remainder of the season spent the two-way forward with their new AHL farm team, the Albany River Rats.
In the 1994/95 season the Canadians won with the team after a sweep in the final series against the Fredericton Canadiens of the Calder Cup. Even after the triumph in the AHL the links Sagittarius by the New Jersey Devils was appointed extremely sporadically in the NHL squad. After the expiry of his contract, the actor agreed in July 1996 to a contractual relationship with the St. Louis Blues. The attacker was deported Henceforth only sporadically in the AHL farm team to the Worcester IceCats. During his four- year commitment in St. Louis, the winger drew up the first time in his career a fixed regular place in an NHL team. The statistically successful season, he played in the jersey of the St. Louis Blues, scored as Pellerin in the course of the season 1998/99 in 80 games of the regular season scoring 20 goals and 21 assists. When NHL Expansion Draft 2000, the newly founded Minnesota Wild selected from the left-handed shooters.
In early March 2001 transferred the wild their leading scorer as part of a transfer of business to the Carolina Hurricanes. Pellerin had scored a total of 39 points for the Minnesota Wild in 58 NHL games to date; the best value for a player of the new franchises in his debut season. His involvement in Raleigh, North Carolina, was of short duration. For the 2001/ 02 season, the Canadian world junior champion from 1990 with the Boston Bruins hired. Even before the season ends in January 2002, Pellerin was however again on the Waiverliste, from the Dallas Stars secured his services. Another milestone in his NHL career were the Phoenix Coyotes during the season 2002/ 03. The attacker left his career in the 2004 calendar year, finish in the jersey of Worcester IceCats.
After ending his active career as a player Pellerin began for the season 2006 /07 to work as a assistant coach with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League. In July 2012, he was appointed head coach of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
Internationally
Pellerin represented his native Canada at the Junior World Championship in 1990. The winger was in all seven games of maple leaves on the ice and contributed two goals in the gold medal win.