Steve Bernier
Steve Bernier ( born March 31, 1985 in Quebec City, Quebec ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is since January 2012, the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League and plays under contract in October 2011 for the Albany Devils in the American Hockey League on the position of the right winger.
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Career
Bernier began his career as a junior at the Moncton Wildcats in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. His rookie year, he finished as the fourth- highest points scorer among all rookies and the third best of his team, he also was appointed to the All- Rookie Team. His best year was Bernier in the 2002/03 season when he scored a total of 101 points and finished the season as the tenth best scorer in the league. In addition to the appointment to the CHL Second All-Star team, he also received the team MVP award of the internal Wildcats. The highly successful season earned him a place in the squad for the Team Canada Under-18 World Cup in Russia. In addition to winning the title of Canadians collected eight points in seven games and impressed the scouts of professional teams sustainable, despite its poor condition condition and limited skating skills. This kept the San Jose Sharks but not depend on it in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 select ranked 16th. To reach this favorable position, they had previously issued option rights at positions 21, 66 and 107. After the Draft Bernier worked on his fitness level and took off five pounds. In the 2003 / 04 season, Bernier statistical values fell for the first time, but with 82 points, he was still the second best points scorer of his team. Nevertheless, criticism began to flourish, mainly because of his fitness problems, but Bernier worked on his game and has become a strong player with offensive and defensive capabilities, as did the San Jose Sharks. In the playoffs, he exhibited his leadership qualities then with 17 points in 20 games to the test. At the beginning of the 2004/05 season played Bernier with the idea in the WHA2 newly founded to play. Bernier then remained but in a very defensive set team in Moncton, in which his offensive statistics values continued to fall. Nevertheless, improved by the defensive play of the entire team and its individual defensive skills. Due to its lower yield point and rising Criminal minutes Bernier quickly slipped from the list of future top youth players in the National Hockey League. He finished the season despite his "only" 71 points as the best scorer of his team, a full 24 points ahead of the second placed. Following the departure in the playoffs, he signed his first professional contract with the San Jose Sharks.
Bernier started his first season as a professional with the Cleveland Barons, the former farm team of the Sharks in the American Hockey League. After impressive 43 points in 49 games, the Sharks relied rookie still in the course of the season in the NHL. Despite the earlier criticism of Canadians also impressed there with 27 points in 39 games, although only one point it had succeeded in the first ten games. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season Bernier found himself in the NHL squad of Sharks and showed signs that he had ignored developed over the summer break to a strong power forward. In January 2007 he was sent to weaker performances back in the AHL with the Worcester Sharks, the new farm team of San Jose sent. After a broken toe suffered there, the Canadians returned in February back to the West Coast, where he finished the season. Although he improved his point yield from the previous year, but it needed a lot more games. Similarly Constitution he presented itself over large parts of the season 2007/ 08, which he was submitted on Transferschlusstag with a first-round draft law in exchange for Brian Campbell and a seventh- round draft law to the Buffalo Sabres. There Bernier took first fast walk, knew with nine points from 17 games but to convince only partially. To make matters worse, that his contract expired and he was at the end of the season as a restricted free agent. As the Sabres had no interest in continuing obligation to improved conditions, they gave his transfer rights in off the following summer for a second-round draft pick in the NHL Entry Draft in 2010 and a third-round vote in NHL Entry Draft 2009 to the Vancouver Canucks. This could be the negotiation of a new contract first time, making the St. Louis Blues take the opportunity to submit a so-called Offer Sheet Bernier. The Blues offered him a one-year contract doped with 2.5 million U.S. dollars, the Vancouver Canucks but immediately were also willing to pay and thus automatically committed Bernier.
In June 2010, Bernier was transferred to an exchange transaction to the Florida Panthers. After the season 2010/11 he was awarded a new contract with the Panthers. In September 2011, the Canadians took part in the training camp of the New Jersey Devils, with whom he however not agreed on an employment. Finally he was committed in October 2011 of the Albany Devils of the AHL. In January 2012, he signed to the minimum conditions a contract with New Jersey.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 QMJHL All- Rookie Team
- 2003 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2003 CHL Second All-Star Team
- 2003 QMJHL Second All-Star Team
- 2004 QMJHL Second All-Star Team
Internationally
- 2003 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 2003
( 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 )