Theoren Fleury

Theoren Wallace " Theo" Fleury ( born June 29, 1968 in Oxbow, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. He won with the Calgary Flames Stanley Cup and was in Salt Lake City with the Canadian National Team Olympic champion.

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Career

Fleury grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan. At school, his talent was discovered as a hockey player, but feared his coaches that he was too small for the NHL despite incredible talent with 1.67 m. In the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 dared the Calgary Flames to pull him to a total of 166 point. During this period, Fleury still played for the Moose Jaw Warriors unterklassigen of the Western Hockey League, where he holds many team-internal records to this day, such as for most points in a season. In 1987/88 he was even top scorer of the league along with Joe Sakic.

In his first professional season, he played in the farm team of the Flames and scored again well above average, but still was able to record a single NHL - use. In the following season he played for the first time in the NHL during the regular season and made 34 points in 36 games. So he could prove that he can compete despite its small size in the NHL. In the next season, the Flames trumped up and won their first Stanley Cup. Also Fleury was a member of the winning team and learned from then and later the likes of Lanny McDonald, Al MacInnis and Joe Nieuwendyk, who were also players in the Flames.

Until 1998, Fleury stayed in Calgary, twice reached the 100 -point mark, once scored 51 goals in a season and made in the 1993/94 season along with Robert Reichel and Gary Roberts the most productive attack in the league (all three each achieved more than 40 goals). He also became the most successful player of the Flames and hit the internal team scoring record, which was held by Joe Nieuwendyk, with his 315th goal for the Flames. He made a total of 731 points in 731 regular -season games for the Calgary Flames, which is also the career record for points with the Flames.

1998 Fleury was transferred along with Chris Dingman in exchange for Rene Corbet and Robyn Regehr to Colorado Avalanche, where in his career, he managed 40 goals in a season for the last time. He left as the last remaining Stanley Cup champion of 1989, the Calgary Flames, but remained only this season in Colorado and signed for the next three years as a so-called unrestricted free agent with the New York Rangers, where he along with Mike York and Eric Lindros played in a row, which was voted the best forward line of the 2001/02 season. At his old successes he came no longer zoom anyway, and so he moved to Chicago in 2002 where he played his last two seasons, until he was finally suspended on 11 March 2003 due to drug and alcohol abuse by the NHL. Beginning of the season 2004/ 05 he wanted to make a comeback in a unterklassigen Hockey League, but which failed because of his still -ending drug problem.

In the season 2005/ 06 he his comeback at the Belfast Giants managed in the British Elite League, for which he from Hockey Sport 38 games played after three year absence and scored 81 points.

In 2009, Fleury announced with now 41 years old and six-year NHL abstinence, again for his old club, the Calgary Flames want to accrue. The Flames offered the striker at first to participate in summer training camp and the preseason games. On September 17, 2009 global Theoren Fleury in the preseason game against the New York Islanders the winning goal in the shootout and also left a good impression otherwise. Nevertheless, he did not make the leap to the squad, after he announced his resignation again.

His shirt number in the club was the 14, he ran for Canada internationally mostly on the 74. Since Fleury left the Flames, will wear the number 14 was not assigned there.

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented Canada at:

  • U20 World Junior Championships 1987
  • U20 World Junior Championships 1988
  • World Cup 1990
  • World Cup 1991
  • Canada Cup 1991
  • World Cup of Hockey 1996
  • 1998 Winter Olympics
  • 2002 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 )

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Others

In October 2009, Fleury 's autobiography, entitled "Playing with Fire".

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