Kevin LaVallee

{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}

{{Other people}}

{{BLP no footnotes|date=September 2023}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2014}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image =

| caption =

| image_size = 230px

| position = Left wing

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 8

| weight_lb = 180

| played_for = Calgary Flames
Los Angeles Kings
St. Louis Blues
Pittsburgh Penguins
Innsbrucker EV
HC Ambri-Piotta
SC Bern
HC Milan
HC Ajoie
EC Ratingen
Düsseldorfer EG
EC Hannover
HC Davos

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|9|16}}

| birth_place = Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

| draft = 32nd overall

| draft_year = 1980

| draft_team = Calgary Flames

| career_start = 1980

| career_end = 1996

}}

Kevin A. LaVallee (born September 16, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played eight seasons in the National Hockey League with four teams from 1980 to 1987. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1980 to 1996, was mainly spent in Europe.

NHL

LaVallee started his NHL career with the Calgary Flames in 1980. He also played for the Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. LaVallee played the last of his 398 NHL games (including playoffs) with the Penguins during the 1986–87 NHL season.

Europe

Following his NHL career, LaVallee played another nine seasons in various European leagues. He was with Innsbruck EV in Austria from 1987–88 until midway through 1989–90. He played for SC Bern for the remainder of that season. In 1990–91 He moved to Italy playing for HC Milano in 1991–92 he played for a different team in Milan. In 1992–93 He joined the Ayr Raiders of the BHL. Later that season he moved to EC Ratingen in Germany. He moved again during the 1992–93 season, this time to Ajoie in the Swiss National League A (NLA). In 1993–94 he went back to Germany with Düsseldorfer EG. He moved with the team in 1994–95 to the newly created Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). In 1995–96 He started the season playing for the DEL's EC Hannover before returning to Switzerland and playing for HC Davos in the NLA.

LaVallee retired from professional hockey following the 1995–96 season.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! colspan="5"|Regular season

! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! colspan="5"|Playoffs

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! Season

! Team

! League

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

1977–78

| Sudbury Wolves U18

| GNML

| 30

45489310

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1978–79

| Brantford Alexanders

| OMJHL

| 66

27235030

| —

1979–80

| Brantford Alexanders

| OMJHL

| 65

657013550

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1980–81

| Calgary Flames

| NHL

| 77

15203516

| 8

2354
1981–82

| Calgary Flames

| NHL

| 75

32296130

| 3

0007
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1982–83

| Calgary Flames

| NHL

| 60

19163517

| 8

1344
1982–83

| Colorado Flames

| CHL

| 5

5490

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1983–84

| Los Angeles Kings

| NHL

| 19

3362

| —

1983–84

| New Haven Nighthawks

| AHL

| 47

29235225

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1984–85

| St. Louis Blues

| NHL

| 38

1517328

| —

1985–86

| St. Louis Blues

| NHL

| 64

1820388

| 13

2246
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1986–87

| Pittsburgh Penguins

| NHL

| 33

820284

| —

1987–88

| Innsbruck EV

| AUT

| 34

3933720

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1987–88

| HC Ambri-Piotta

| NLA

| 3

3142

| —

1988–89

| Innsbruck EV

| AUT

| 40

4547920

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1989–90

| Innsbruck EV

| AUT

| 33

434285 | 34

| —

1989–90

| SC Bern

| NLA

| —

| 7

55100
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1990–91

| HC Milan

| ITA

| 36

33508316

| —

1991–92

| HC Milan

| ITA

| 16

1517324

| 12

57127
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1991–92

| HC Milan

| ALP

| 10

79164

| —

1992–93

| Ratingen EC

| GER

| 10

612182

| 3

0110
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1992–93

| Ajoie

| NLA

| 9

371027

| —

1993–94

| Düsseldorfer EG

| GER

| 44

19193833

| 12

28108
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1994–95

| Düsseldorfer EG

| DEL

| 39

14243826

| 10

85130
1995–96

| Hannover EC

| DEL

| 23

16203622

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1995–96

| HC Davos

| NLA

| 18

810186

| 3

1122
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! colspan="3" | NHL Totals

! 366 !! 110 !! 125 !! 235 !! 85

! 32 !! 5 !! 8 !! 13 !! 21