Shane Doan

Shane Albert Doan ( born October 10, 1976 in Halkirk, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays for the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League for the position of right winger since 1996.

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Career

Shane Doan began his career as a hockey player with the Kamloops Blazers, where he was active in the Western Hockey League from 1992 to 1995. In 1995 he won the Memorial Cup with the Blazers and the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as most valuable player of the tournament trophy. He was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 in the first round as a whole seventh player from the Winnipeg Jets then, where he was the last first-round pick of the Jets before moving to Phoenix. He also received directly after the Draft a place in the NHL squad of jets and scored in his rookie season 17 points scorer. In addition, he was elected to the Jets rookie of the year of Winnipeg.

After moving the franchise to Phoenix he had often no fixed place in the team and had often in the 1997/98 season for the farm team, the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League, accrues. In the following season he was once again fixed for Coyotes team and completed a total of 88 season games before he scored for the first time in the 1999/2000 season more than 20 goals in the regular season. He established himself in the team and developed within the next few years to a leading player of the Coyotes, where he scored at least 20 goals in the next eight seasons. After Teppo Numminen had left the team before the season 2003 / 04, Doan became the new captain of the team, reaching 27 goals, 41 assists and 68 points scorer new personal records. In addition, he received his first invitation to a 2004 NHL All-Star Game. In February 2004, Doan received a new three- year contract from the Coyotes. During the lockout in the season 2004/ 05 Doan did not play hockey.

In February 2007, Doan was awarded a contract extension by five years. In the 2009/10 season, Doan put the Coyotes on a new high score in the regular season with 107 points and made a place in the playoffs. In the first round they lost just seven games against the Detroit Red Wings.

Internationally

Doan made ​​his debut for Team Canada at the World Championship 1999 in Norway, where it finished fourth. Four years later he was re-appointed in the Canadian national team and won at the championships in 2003 in Finland its first gold medal. In 2004 he took part in the World Cup of Hockey, scoring in the final against the Finnish master selection the 3-2 winning goal. Previously, he had been nominated for the World Cup in 2004, but could not participate due to injury. At the World Cup a year later in Vienna Doan was appointed assistant captain of Team Canada and won with the national team the silver medal.

In addition, he was in the squad of Canada at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin, where he scored three points scorer in six games.

At the 2007 World Championships in Moscow Doan ran the first time as team captain. Under his leadership, the team won the gold medal, and it did not lose a single game and defeated Finland in the final of the tournament 4-2. This success contributed Doan five goals and five assists, where he scored a hat trick in the intermediate round game against Belarus. Even a year later, at the World Championships in 2008, Doan kept his captaincy and led his team into the final against Russia by the Russians, the Canadians were subject to 4:5. At the World Championships in Switzerland in 2009, he won another silver medal.

Controversy

During the election campaign before the general election of 2006 Doan was accused by the House of Deputies Denis Coderre to have racially abused on 13 December 2005 during a game against the Montreal Canadiens the French-speaking linesman Michel Cormier. In a letter Coderre called on the President of Hockey Canada to make Doan's nomination for the cadres of the 2006 Winter Olympics canceled - unless the player would publicly apologize. Doan sued Coderre in January 2006 for defamation and demanded a compensation of $ 250,000 (which he would make to charity ). After Cormier had confirmed that he had been insulted racist, Coderre responded in April 2007 with a counter-claim in the amount of $ 45,000. About one month before the scheduled process came in August 2010 concluded a settlement out of court. Doan announced the linesman was actually offended, however, by another player.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

  • 2003 Gold Medal at the World Championships
  • 2004 Gold Medal at the World Cup of Hockey
  • 2005 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2007 Gold medal at the World Championships
  • 2008 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2009 Silver medal at the World Championships

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented Canada at:

  • 1999 World Cup
  • 2003 World Cup
  • World Cup of Hockey 2004
  • World Championship 2005
  • 2006 Winter Olympics
  • World Cup 2007
  • World Championship 2008
  • World Cup 2009

( 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 )

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