Doug Weight

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Position	Center
Shoots	Left
Height Weight	5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) 201 lb (91 kg)
NHL Team F. Teams	St. Louis Blues Carolina Hurricanes Edmonton Oilers New York Rangers
Nationality	United States
Born	January 21, 1971, Warren, MI, USA
NHL Draft	34th overall, 1990 New York Rangers
Pro Career	1991 – present

Douglas Weight (Born January 21, 1971 in Warren, Michigan, USA) is professional ice hockey player currently playing for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. He previously played for the New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers and Carolina Hurricanes.

Contents 1 Playing career 1.1 Background and early career 1.2 Edmonton Oilers 1.3 Notable achievements 2 Awards 3 Career statistics 4 International play 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

He has played two seasons with the New York Rangers, 9 seasons with the Edmonton Oilers, 3 seasons with the St. Louis Blues, and currently plays for the Blues after 4 months with the Carolina Hurricanes. Weight has also played games in the German Elite League during the shortened 1994-95 season and the cancelled 2004-05 season. He is primarily known for his astounding saucer passes, which can be put high, and land flat.

In the 2005-06 playoffs, Weight and the Carolina Hurricanes suffered a huge blow during Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. The player was sandwiched heavily along the boards by Raffi Torres and Chris Pronger of the Edmonton Oilers in the second period of Game 5 in the Stanley Cup Final, a game the Oilers won 4-3 in overtime. Weight missed the rest of Game 5 and all of Game 6 and 7 with a shoulder injury. His team, however, won the Stanley Cup anyway on June 19, 2006.

[edit] Background and early career

Weight graduated in 1989 from Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan where he was a star on the varsity hockey team. Weight played two years in the NCAA with Lake Superior State University, from 1989-91. He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft with their second pick, 34th overall. After completing his second year with his college team, he played a single playoff game with the Rangers in 1991, then split time between the Rangers and their AHL affiliate the Binghamton Rangers. He played 65 games with the Rangers in his first full NHL season, 1992-93, before being traded to the Edmonton Oilers for forward Esa Tikkanen.

[edit] Edmonton Oilers

Weight played eight full seasons and part of another one with the Oilers, serving as their captain from 1999-2001. It was as an Oiler that he earned his reputation as a premiere playmaker, playing on some mediocre teams that never had a chance at the playoffs, yet scoring a personal-best 104 points during the troubled 1995-96 season. Weight left the team in July 2001, when he was traded to the Blues (with Michel Riesen for forwards Marty Reasoner and Jochen Hecht and defenceman Jan Horacek.

[edit] Notable achievements

Doug Weight has played several times internationally for his country. He was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he also played with Team USA at the 1996 and 2004 World Cup of Hockey, and 1998 Olympics. The finest game he has ever played was likely game three of the first round playoff series against the Dallas Stars in 2000, where he scored a hat-trick and led the Oilers to a victory. (His third goal of the game came complete with a poetic back-swing slapper). As well, his greatest ever playoff series was probably the first round against Vancouver in 2003, when he led the league in points that round, with thirteen points in seven games.

Doug won his first Stanley Cup championship on June 19, 2006 with the Carolina Hurricanes. He returned to the Blues as a free agent in July 2006.

Doug recently played his 1000th game in the NHL. He played this game for the St. Louis Blues against the Edmonton Oilers.

[edit] Awards

• 1990-91: First All-Star Team (CCHA)
• 1990-91: West Second All-American Team (NCAA)
• 1995-96: Played in All-Star Game (NHL)
• 1997-98: Played in All-Star Game (NHL)
• 2001-02: Played in All-Star Game (NHL)
• 2001-02: Silver Medal (XIX Olympic Winter Games)
• 2003-04: Played in All-Star Game (NHL)
• 2005-06: Stanley Cup Championship (Carolina)

[edit] Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1989-90	Lake Superior State Lakers	CCHA		46	21	48	69	44		-	-	-	-	-
1990-91	Lake Superior State Lakers	CCHA		42	29	46	75	86		-	-	-	-	-
1990-91	New York Rangers	NHL		-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	0
1991-92	Binghamton Rangers	AHL		9	3	14	17	2		4	1	4	5	6
1991-92	New York Rangers	NHL		53	8	22	30	23		7	2	2	4	0
1992-93	New York Rangers	NHL		65	15	25	40	55		-	-	-	-	-
1992-93	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		13	2	6	8	10		-	-	-	-	-
1993-94	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		84	24	50	74	47		-	-	-	-	-
1994-95	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		48	7	33	40	69		-	-	-	-	-
1994-95	Star Bulls Rosenheim	DEL		8	2	3	5	18		-	-	-	-	-
1995-96	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		82	25	79	104	95		-	-	-	-	-
1996-97	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		80	21	61	82	80		12	3	8	11	8
1997-98	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		79	26	44	70	69		12	2	7	9	14
1998-99	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		43	6	31	37	12		4	1	1	2	15
1999-00	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		77	21	51	72	54		5	3	2	5	4
2000-01	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		82	25	65	90	91		6	1	5	6	17
2001-02	St. Louis Blues	NHL		61	15	34	49	40		10	1	1	2	4
2002-03	St. Louis Blues	NHL		70	15	52	67	52		7	5	8	13	2
2003-04	St. Louis Blues	NHL		75	14	51	65	37		5	2	1	3	6
2004-05	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		7	6	9	15	26		11	2	10	12	8
2005-06	St. Louis Blues	NHL		47	11	33	44	50		-	-	-	-	-
2005-06	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		23	4	9	13	25		23	3	13	16	20
NHL totals				982	239	646	885	809		92	23	48	71	90

[edit] International play

Olympic medal record
Men's Ice hockey
Silver	2002 Salt Lake City	Ice hockey

• 1998 - Played for the United States in the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
• 2002 - Played for the United States in the XIX Olympic Winter Games
• 2006 - Played for the United States in the XX Olympic Winter Games

[edit] External links

• The Doug Weight Fan Site
• Doug Weight on Internet Hockey Database
• Doug Weight-Stars and Stripes In The Great White North
• Doug Weight's U.S. Olympic Team bio
• Doug Weight's Day With the Stanley Cup

Preceded by Kelly Buchberger

Edmonton Oilers captains 1999-2001

Succeeded by Jason Smith