Darryl Sydor
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = Darryl_Sydor.jpg
| image_size = 230px
| caption = Sydor with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2008
| position = Defence
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 1
| weight_lb = 211
| played_for = Los Angeles Kings
Dallas Stars
Columbus Blue Jackets
Tampa Bay Lightning
Pittsburgh Penguins
St. Louis Blues
| league = NHL
| ntl_team = Canada
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|5|13}}
| birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| draft = 7th overall
| draft_year = 1990
| draft_team = Los Angeles Kings
| career_start = 1991
| career_end = 2010
}}
Darryl Marion Sydor (born May 13, 1972) is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He won two Stanley Cups during his career: with the Dallas Stars in 1999, and with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004. He also reached the Stanley Cup Finals in 1993 as a member of the Los Angeles Kings, in 2000 as a member of the Dallas Stars and in 2008 as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins. As a junior, Sydor won a Memorial Cup with the Kamloops Blazers and also represented Canada at the World Junior Championships.{{cite web |url=https://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/feature/?fid=3804 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231165335/http://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/feature/?fid=3804 |archive-date=2008-12-31 |title=WJHC History - 1992}}
Playing career
The Los Angeles Kings selected Sydor seventh overall in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He played four seasons with the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League (WHL) and won a Memorial Cup championship in 1992. Sydor originally began his Memorial Cup championship season in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Kings, but was sent back to the WHL after 18 games.
In his first full season with the Kings, Sydor tallied 29 points and helped the club to their first ever Stanley Cup Finals appearance. Led by Wayne Gretzky, they were defeated by the Montreal Canadiens. Sydor developed with the Kings, but did not reach his prime until he was traded to the Dallas Stars in 1996. He recorded a career-high 40 assists and 48 points in 1996–97 with the Stars.
During his time with Dallas, Sydor became part of the team's "big four" defenceman, which included Derian Hatcher, Sergei Zubov and Richard Matvichuk. This quartet played a major role in capturing the Stanley Cup in 1999 against the Buffalo Sabres. In the regular season leading up to Sydor's first Stanley Cup championship, he matched his career-high 48 points and established a personal best 14 goals. The following year, Sydor helped the Stars to a second consecutive Finals appearance, but would suffer an injury against the New Jersey Devils. The Stars were kept from repeating as Stanley Cup champions, falling to the Devils in six games.
Sydor played in Dallas for seven-and-a-half seasons before being traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets in the summer of 2003.{{cite news|title=Numminen to Stars in three-way trade|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/numminen-to-stars-in-three-team-trade-1.406747|publisher=CBC|access-date=2008-11-16|date=2003-07-22}} He played only 49 games with Columbus before being traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for prospect Alexander Svitov midway through the season.{{cite web|title=Lightning give up Svitov|url=https://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=1720331|access-date=2008-11-16|date=2004-01-28|publisher=ESPN}} Bolstering the Lightning's lineup for their 2004 playoff run, Sydor won his second Stanley Cup championship as the Lightning defeated the Calgary Flames in seven games. Sydor remained with the Lightning for one more season and was then traded back to the Dallas Stars on July 2, 2006, for a 2008 fourth-round draft pick in a salary-dumping move.{{cite web|title=Cap-strapped Lightning deal Sydor to Stars|url=https://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2507615|access-date=2008-11-16|date=2006-07-02|publisher=ESPN}}
Returning to Dallas in 2006–07, he became an unrestricted free agent on July 1, 2007. Due to a late-season acquisition for defenceman Mattias Norström, Sydor became the odd man out on the Stars' blueline and did not receive an offer from the club. He instead signed a two-year, $5 million contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins.{{cite news|title=Sydor speaks|url=http://starsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/11/sydor-speaks.html|access-date=2008-11-16|date=2008-11-16|newspaper=Dallas Morning News}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In his second season with the Penguins, he was traded back to Dallas for his third stint with the club on November 16, 2008, in exchange for Phillippe Boucher.{{cite web|title=Stars trade defenceman for Darryl Sydor |url=http://www.sportsnet.ca/thewire/hockey/2008/11/16/stars_trade_for_defenseman/ |access-date=2008-11-16 |date=2008-11-16 |publisher=Rogers Sportsnet |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116031836/http://www.sportsnet.ca/thewire/hockey/2008/11/16/stars_trade_for_defenseman/ |archive-date=January 16, 2009 }}
On September 3, 2009, Sydor was invited to the St. Louis Blues training camp for the 2009–10 season.{{cite web|url=http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/morning-skate/uncategorized/2009/09/st-louis-blues-invite-darryl-sydor-to-training-camp/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090908161956/http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/morning-skate/uncategorized/2009/09/st-louis-blues-invite-darryl-sydor-to-training-camp/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-09-08 |title=St. Louis Blues invite Darryl Sydor to training camp |publisher=Stltoday.com |date=2009-09-03 |access-date=2009-09-04 }} On September 25, Sydor signed a one-year contract with the Blues, serving primarily as a seventh defenceman.{{cite web|url=http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=292536|title=BLUES BRING IN DEFENCEMAN SYDOR|publisher=TSN.ca|date=2009-09-25|access-date=2009-09-25|archive-date=2011-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607033129/http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=292536|url-status=dead}} He announced his retirement from the NHL as a player on July 13, 2010.{{Cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/StLouis/2010/07/13/14700861.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-07-13 |archive-date=2012-07-15 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715012001/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/StLouis/2010/07/13/14700861.html |url-status=usurped }}
Coaching career
Sydor spent the 2010–11 season as an assistant coach of the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (AHL) under head coach Mike Yeo. Under their leadership, the Aeros won the Western Conference title. On June 30, 2011, Sydor was announced as one of the new assistant coaches of the NHL's Minnesota Wild,{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/124827519.html|title=Yeo picks his assistants|website=Star Tribune|date=2011-06-30|access-date=2011-07-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703070928/http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/124827519.html|archive-date=2011-07-03}} again serving under Yeo. When Yeo became the head coach of the St. Louis Blues, Sydor again followed, working with the Blues' AHL affiliate Chicago Wolves in 2016–17 and as a Blues' assistant coach in 2017–18.{{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/blues/news/blues-name-sydor-assistant-coach/c-289599756 |title=Blues Name Sydor Assistant Coach |publisher=NHL.com |date=May 24, 2017}} He left the Blues in 2018 to spend more time with family.{{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/blues/news/blues-name-mike-van-ryn-as-assistant-coach/c-298844458 |title=Blues name Mike Van Ryn as assistant coach |work=St. Louis Blues |date=May 30, 2018}}
On January 12, 2019, Sydor was hired as the assistant coach of the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League.
Awards
- Won President's Cup (WHL champions; Kamloops Blazers) in 1990 and 1992.
- WHL West First All-Star Team – 1990, 1991 & 1992
- Won Memorial Cup (CHL champions; Kamloops Blazers) in 1992.
- Played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1998 and 1999.
- Stanley Cup champion in 1999 (Dallas Stars) and 2004 (Tampa Bay Lightning).
Personal life
Sydor and his wife Sharlene have four sons: Parker, Braden, Dylan and Cooper.{{Cite web|url=http://blues.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=534308|title = Sydor Retires After 18 NHL Seasons}} At the end of 2006, Sydor was naturalized with his wife as US citizens at a Dallas elementary school.{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores106/106342/NHL705538.htm | work=USA Today | title=Oilers 2, Stars 0 | date=2006-04-18}}
On August 21, 2015, Sydor was charged with drunken driving after police arrested him while he was driving his 12-year-old son to a hockey tournament. According to the criminal complaint filed in Anoka County District Court, Sydor's blood alcohol level tested at 0.30, more than three times the legal limit.{{Cite web|url = http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/wild-assistant-darryl-sydor-arrested-for-dui/|title = Wild assistant Darryl Sydor arrested for DUI|date = August 21, 2015|access-date = August 21, 2015|website = Sportsnet}}
Sydor voluntarily entered the NHL/NHL Players' Association Substance Abuse/Behavioral Health Program and admitted himself into an inpatient centre in Malibu, California, on August 22 to seek treatment for alcoholism, earning the respect of fellow Blazers' majority owner Tom Gaglardi.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/gaglardi-expresses-blazers-support-for-sydor/ |title=Gaglardi expresses Blazers' support for Sydor | Kamloops This Week |access-date=2016-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229122103/http://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/gaglardi-expresses-blazers-support-for-sydor/ |archive-date=2015-12-29 |url-status=dead }}
Sydor is a part owner of the Kamloops Blazers.{{Cite web|url=http://infotel.ca/newsitem/nhl-assistant-coach-kamloops-blazer-owner-in-jail-on-drunk-driving-charges/it22327|title = NHL assistant coach, Kamloops Blazer owner in jail on drunk driving charges}}
Career statistics
=Regular season and playoffs=
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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! colspan="5"|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! colspan="5"|Playoffs | ||||||||
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM | ||||||||
| 1987–88
| AJHL | 38 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 54
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1988–89 | WHL | 65 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 86
| 15 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| 1989–90
| Kamloops Blazers | WHL | 67 | 29 | 66 | 95 | 129
| 17 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 28 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1989–90 | Kamloops Blazers | MC | — | — | — | — | —
| 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1990–91
| Kamloops Blazers | WHL | 66 | 27 | 78 | 105 | 88
| 12 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 10 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1991–92 | Kamloops Blazers | WHL | 29 | 9 | 39 | 48 | 33
| 17 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 18 |
| 1991–92
| NHL | 18 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 22
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1991–92 | Kamloops Blazers | MC | — | — | — | — | —
| 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 1992–93
| Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 63
| 24 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 16 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1993–94 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 84 | 8 | 27 | 35 | 94
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1994–95
| Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 48 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 36
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1995–96 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 58 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 34
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1995–96
| NHL | 26 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 41
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1996–97 | Dallas Stars | NHL | 82 | 8 | 40 | 48 | 51
| 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997–98
| Dallas Stars | NHL | 79 | 11 | 35 | 46 | 51
| 17 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1998–99 | Dallas Stars | NHL | 74 | 14 | 34 | 48 | 50
| 23 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 16 |
| 1999–2000
| Dallas Stars | NHL | 74 | 8 | 26 | 34 | 32
| 23 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2000–01 | Dallas Stars | NHL | 82 | 10 | 37 | 47 | 34
| 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001–02
| Dallas Stars | NHL | 78 | 4 | 29 | 33 | 50
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2002–03 | Dallas Stars | NHL | 81 | 5 | 31 | 36 | 40
| 12 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 2003–04
| NHL | 49 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 26
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2003–04 | NHL | 31 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6
| 23 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| 2005–06
| Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 80 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 30
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2006–07 | Dallas Stars | NHL | 74 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 36
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007–08
| NHL | 74 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 26
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2008–09 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 2008–09
| Dallas Stars | NHL | 65 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 16
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2009–10 | NHL | 47 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 15
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals ! 1,291 !! 98 !! 409 !! 507 !! 755 ! 155 !! 9 !! 47 !! 56 !! 73 |
=International=
{{MedalTableTop|name= }}
{{MedalCountry | {{ih|CAN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|1994 Italy|}}
{{MedalSilver|1996 Austria|}}
{{MedalBottom}}
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! Year ! Team ! Event ! Result ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |
| 1992
| Canada | WJC | 6th | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1994 | Canada | WC | {{gold1}} | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1996
| Canada | WC | {{silver2}} | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2002 | Canada | WC | 6th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="4" | Junior totals ! 7 ! 3 ! 1 ! 4 ! 4 |
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="4" | Senior totals ! 17 ! 0 ! 2 ! 2 ! 4 |
See also
References
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External links
- {{Ice hockey stats}}
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