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Chris Valentine

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Chris Valentine
Born (1961-12-06) December 6, 1961 (age 62)
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position Centre
Played for Washington Capitals
Düsseldorfer EG
NHL draft 194th overall, 1981
Washington Capitals
Playing career 1981–1996

Christopher William Valentine (born December 6, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. He played 105 games in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals from 1981 to 1983. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1981 to 1996, was mainly spent with Düsseldorfer EG in the Eishockey-Bundesliga and Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Biography

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Valentine was born in Belleville, Ontario and raised in Kanata, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1973 and 1974 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from North Shore.[1]

Valentine began his hockey career in 1978 at St. Louis University before moving to the QMJHL's Sorel Black Hawks. He was selected in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in the tenth round by the Washington Capitals. Starting with the 1981–82 NHL season he played for the Capitals and their farm team, the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League. He played 105 NHL games, all with the Capitals, during his career.

As a free agent following the 1983–84 NHL season, Valentine elected to sign in Germany with DEG in Düsseldorf. From 1990 to 1993 and again in 1996, Valentine led DEG to the German national championship. By the end of his career in 1996 he had played 571 games for DEG.

After the end of his playing career Valentine became a coach, accepting the head coaching position with DEG in 1997. In 1998 he moved to the EV Landshut, later to Adler Mannheim and in 2001 to the Krefeld Pinguine. In 2003, Valentine ended his coaching career in Germany and returned to his native Canada with his family. In December 2006 he took over as head coach of the EHC Black Wings Linz of the Austrian Hockey League and returned to Canada at the end of the 2006–07 season for personal reasons.[2]

Valentine is the father of Canadian figure skater and television personality Mandy Valentine.

Career statistics

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Regular season and playoffs

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Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1977–78 Lac St-Louis Lions QMAAA 39 41 61 102 105 7 6 15 21 26
1978–79 Saint Louis University CCHA 34 27 44 71 52 — — — — —
1979–80 Verdun/Sorel Éperviers QMJHL 72 48 80 128 76 — — — — —
1980–81 Sorel Éperviers QMJHL 72 65 77 142 176 5 5 5 10 8
1981–82 Washington Capitals NHL 60 30 37 67 92 — — — — —
1981–82 Hershey Bears AHL 19 12 9 21 69 — — — — —
1982–83 Washington Capitals NHL 23 7 10 17 14 2 0 0 0 4
1982–83 Hershey Bears AHL 51 31 38 69 66 — — — — —
1983–84 Washington Capitals NHL 22 6 5 11 21 — — — — —
1983–84 Hershey Bears AHL 47 15 44 59 41 — — — — —
1984–85 Düsseldorfer EG GER 36 37 42 79 74 4 1 3 4 24
1985–86 Düsseldorfer EG GER 45 36 67 103 98 9 9 15 24 19
1986–87 Düsseldorfer EG GER 42 28 50 78 71 8 4 11 15 —
1987–88 Düsseldorfer EG GER 43 34 50 84 63 10 4 14 18 23
1988–89 Düsseldorfer EG GER 36 27 47 74 34 11 4 10 14 27
1989–90 Düsseldorfer EG GER 36 27 39 66 35 11 5 10 15 22
1990–91 Düsseldorfer EG GER 42 22 52 74 76 12 8 13 21 8
1991–92 Düsseldorfer EG GER 44 32 49 81 56 9 10 8 18 16
1992–93 Düsseldorfer EG GER 44 26 44 70 56 11 7 10 17 6
1993–94 Düsseldorfer EG GER 43 19 40 59 52 12 2 5 7 14
1994–95 Düsseldorfer EG DEL 41 15 32 47 102 10 10 7 17 16
1995–96 Düsseldorfer EG DEL 26 9 8 17 22 12 5 10 15 30
GER totals 411 288 480 768 615 97 54 99 153 —
NHL totals 105 43 52 95 127 2 0 0 0 4

Awards and honours

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DEG has retired Valentine's number 10.

Award Year
All-CCHA Second Team 1978-79 [3]

References

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  1. ^ "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
  2. ^ "ÖEHV-Teamchef Boni neuer Trainer der Black Wings Linz". DiePresse.com. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  3. ^ "CCHA All-Teams". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
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