Daniel Laperrière
Daniel Laperrière | |||
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Born |
Laval, Quebec, Canada | March 28, 1969||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||
Weight | 191 lb (87 kg; 13 st 9 lb) | ||
Position | Defence | ||
Shot | Left | ||
Played for |
Ottawa Senators St. Louis Blues | ||
NHL draft |
93rd overall, 1989 St. Louis Blues | ||
Playing career | 1992–2008 |
Daniel Jacques "Dan" Laperrière (born March 28, 1969) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. Laperriere played 48 games in the National Hockey League. He is the son of NHL Hall of Famer Jacques Laperrière.[citation needed]
Biography
As a youth, Laperrière played in the 1981 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Laval, Quebec.[1]
He played with the St. Louis Blues and the Ottawa Senators. He graduated from St. Lawrence University where he played for the Skating Saints, earning Hobey Baker Award nomination in 1992.[citation needed]
Laperrière was drafted 93rd overall by St. Louis in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, and went on to play in 48 regular season games, scoring two goals and five assists for seven points, collecting 27 penalty minutes.[citation needed]
In 1997, he moved to Germany to play in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. In five seasons he played for the SERC Wild Wings and Eisbären Berlin. He also spent a season in the 2nd Bundesliga for EV Duisburg. He then spent two seasons in Switzerland's Nationalliga B for HC Ajoie.[citation needed]
He returned to Canada in 2005 to play in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey for the Saint-Georges CRS Express. He moved to the Arizona Sundogs of the Central Hockey League in 2006 where his 57 points (11 goals and 46 assist) in 60 games was his most productive in his career and was ranked 5th among CHL defencemen in points.
He is currently a pro scout for the Colorado Avalanche.[citation needed]
Awards and honours
List of awards and honours.[citation needed]
Award | Year |
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All-ECAC Hockey Second Team | 1990–91 |
ECAC Hockey All-Tournament Team | 1991 |
All-ECAC Hockey First Team | 1991–92 |
AHCA East First-Team All-American | 1991–92 |
ECAC Hockey All-Tournament Team | 1992 |
References
- ^ "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- 1969 births
- HC Ajoie players
- Arizona Sundogs players
- Atlanta Knights players
- Canadian ice hockey defencemen
- Colorado Avalanche scouts
- Eisbären Berlin players
- Füchse Duisburg players
- Sportspeople from Laval, Quebec
- Kansas City Blades players
- Living people
- Ottawa Senators players
- Peoria Rivermen (IHL) players
- Portland Pirates players
- Prince Edward Island Senators players
- St. Lawrence Saints men's ice hockey players
- St. Louis Blues draft picks
- St. Louis Blues players
- Schwenninger Wild Wings players
- Ice hockey people from Quebec
- Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Germany
- Canadian ice hockey defenceman, 1960s births stubs