Trent McCleary

Trent Kenneth McCleary ( born September 8, 1972 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.

Career

McCleary began in his childhood, with the exercise of the ice hockey and played mostly for teams near his birthplace. For the 1989/90 season he finally obliged the Swift Current Broncos, the höchstklassig playing junior team of the city and reigning Memorial Cup champion, from the Western Hockey League. Already in pre-season he had three matches for the team contested. Overall, the most active defensive right winger the Broncos remained faithful to the end of the season 1992/93. In his final year with the team he won the President's Cup, the championship of the WHL, and participated in the Memorial Cup tournament in part.

After completion of the junior season, the Ottawa Senators committed to ungedrafteten Canadians and put him between 1993 and 1995 in their farm team in the American Hockey League. For the 1995/96 season McCleary was then a regular place in the squad of the Ottawa Senators in the NHL and ran in 75 of the 82 season games. During the summer break, the Senators transferred him to a third-round draft pick for Shawn McEachern to the Boston Bruins, where he also belonged to the permanent staff in the first season. After he was released before the 1997/98 season, he played in the International Hockey League with the Detroit Vipers and Las Vegas Thunder, because he had committed no other NHL team. Used only in October 1998, the Montreal Canadiens to secure the services of free agents the opportunity. He came in his first year with the Canadiens just 46 games and hovering in the following year game between the AHL and NHL.

Accident

In a home game of the Canadiens on 29 January 2000 against the Philadelphia Flyers McCleary was hit by a slap shot by Chris Therien from the puck so unhappy in the larynx that his lung collapsed. Only due to the rapid deployment of medical personnel and carried out at the Montreal General Hospital tracheotomy remained McCleary alive. After a two-fold laryngeal surgery, which enabled him to speak again, he had first considered a comeback, but realized later that this is due to a partial paralysis of the left vocal cord and a scar on the cricoid cartilage, is no longer feasible with a narrowed by 15 percent trachea, had. This was confirmed by the attending physician, the McCleary for a use in a preseason game at the 2000/ 01 season under investigation after he complained of breathing difficulties. On 8 November 2000 he finally announced his official career end.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

Others

McCleary has with the NHL player Patrick Marleau in 2001, Trent McCleary - founded Patrick Marleau Sport and Recreation Foundation, which financially supports young people aged six to 18 years, so that their athletic potential can be promoted. Since 2007, Travis Moen, the Foundation supports, making them ever since Trent McCleary - Patrick Marleau - ie Travis Moen Sports and Recreation Foundation. McCleary, Marleau and Moen stem from all or around Swift Current.

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