Peter Schaefer (ice hockey)

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Peter Schaefer
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Born (1977-07-12) July 12, 1977 (age 46)
Yellow Grass, SK, CAN
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position Left Wing
Shot Left
team
Former teams		 Free Agent
Vancouver Canucks
Ottawa Senators
Boston Bruins
National team  Canada
NHL Draft 66th overall, 1995
Vancouver Canucks
Playing career 1997–2011

Peter Schaefer (born July 12, 1977) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He most recently played for ERC Ingolstadt in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He has played in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators, the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks. He is best known as a two-way forward.

Playing career

Schaefer played major junior in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Brandon Wheat Kings. He recorded 59 points in his rookie season with Brandon and was subsequently drafted by the Vancouver Canucks 66th overall in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. The following season, in 1995–96, he improved to 108 points, ninth overall in the league, then added 23 points in the playoffs, leading Brandon to a President's Cup championship and 1996 Memorial Cup appearance.

Schaefer continued to improve in the WHL the following season, putting up a junior career-high 123 points, fourth overall in league scoring. On March 14, 1997, he tied a WHL record for most shorthanded goals in a game with 3 in an 8-1 win against the Medicine Hat Tigers. Schaefer earned the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as league MVP as well as the WHL Plus-Minus Award with a league-high +57 rating in his final WHL season.

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Schaefer with the Bruins

Graduating from major junior, Schaefer spent several seasons in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Canucks' minor league affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. He cracked the Canucks' lineup in 1998–99, scoring 8 points in 25 games. He improved to 31, then 36 points in the following two seasons before playing overseas for TPS of the SM-liiga in 2001–02.

Before the start of the 2002–03 season, Schaefer was traded to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for defenceman Sami Salo. In 2005–06, he recorded a career-high 20 goals, 30 assists and 50 points with the Senators. The following season, he helped the Senators to the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals, but lost to the Anaheim Ducks in five games.

In the off-season, he was traded to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Shean Donovan on July 17, 2007.[1] Bryan Murray, the team's general manager, revealed that Schaefer had requested a trade on a couple of occasions during the season and that Schaefer was under-performing.[citation needed]

In his first season with the Bruins, in 2007–08, his points total dipped to 26 points, his lowest output since 2002–03. He began the season on the top line with Marc Savard, but was quickly demoted to the fourth line and was a healthy scratch on several occasions after returning from leg and foot injuries. The following season, he failed to make the team's roster out of training camp. He was placed on waivers and once he cleared, was assigned to the Providence Bruins, Boston's AHL affiliate.[2][3] After the 2008–09 season, the final year remaining on Schaefer's contract was bought out by the Bruins on June 30, 2009.[4]

He did not play in the 2009–10 NHL season, training extensively to make an NHL comeback, while living in West Vancouver. After being invited to the Canucks' 2010 training camp on a tryout basis, he was signed to a one-year, two-way, contract worth $600,000 on October, 7, 2010. After 16 games, however, he was put on waivers by Vancouver in November 2010. Unwilling to play in the minors, the club put him on waivers a second time in order to release him. Schaefer's agent said both sides were amicable in the departure, agreeing to simply terminate the contract.[5] Becoming an unrestricted free agent, he signed overseas with ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in January 2011.[6]

Along with Mike Sillinger, Peter Schaefer played with the Balgonie Bisons of the Qu'Appelle Valley Hockey League in their attempt to qualify for the Allan Cup in 2012. He is currently the president of the Surrey Eagles in the BC Hockey League.[7]

Family

Schaefer's younger brother, Nolan Schaefer, is a goaltender who signed with the Boston Bruins on July 5, 2010, a year after being bought out by the same club.[8]

Awards and achievements

Records

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1993–94 Brandon Wheat Kings WHL 2 1 0 1 0 — — — — —
1994–95 Brandon Wheat Kings WHL 68 27 32 59 34 18 5 3 8 18
1995–96 Brandon Wheat Kings WHL 69 47 61 108 53 19 10 13 23 5
1996–97 Brandon Wheat Kings WHL 61 49 74 123 85 6 1 4 5 4
1996–97 Syracuse Crunch AHL 5 0 3 3 0 3 1 3 4 14
1997–98 Syracuse Crunch AHL 73 19 44 63 41 5 2 1 3 2
1998–99 Syracuse Crunch AHL 41 10 19 29 66 — — — — —
1998–99 Vancouver Canucks NHL 25 4 4 8 8 — — — — —
1999–00 Syracuse Crunch AHL 2 0 0 0 2 — — — — —
1999–00 Vancouver Canucks NHL 71 16 15 31 20 — — — — —
2000–01 Vancouver Canucks NHL 82 16 20 36 22 3 0 0 0 0
2001–02 TPS SM-l 33 16 15 31 93 8 1 2 3 2
2002–03 Ottawa Senators NHL 75 6 17 23 32 16 2 3 5 6
2003–04 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 15 24 39 26 7 0 2 2 4
2004–05 HC Bolzano ITA 15 11 14 25 10 10 1 7 8 12
2005–06 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 20 30 50 40 4 1 4 5 3
2006–07 Ottawa Senators NHL 78 12 34 46 32 20 1 5 6 10
2007–08 Boston Bruins NHL 63 9 17 26 18 7 1 3 4 0
2008–09 Providence Bruins AHL 47 7 19 26 10 16 3 4 7 2
2010–11 Vancouver Canucks NHL 16 1 1 2 2 — — — — —
2010–11 ERC Ingolstadt DEL 15 4 11 15 22 4 1 1 2 4
NHL totals 572 99 162 261 200 63 6 18 24 34

References

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Preceded by Winner of the WHL Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
1997		 Succeeded by
Sergei Varlamov
Preceded by Winner of the WHL Plus-Minus Award
1997		 Succeeded by
Andrew Ference
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