Paul Stanton (ice hockey)

{{Short description|American ice hockey player (born 1967)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image =

| image_size =

| played_for = Pittsburgh Penguins
Boston Bruins
New York Islanders
Adler Mannheim
Nürnberg Ice Tigers
Frankfurt Lions
IF Redhawks Malmö

| league = GET

| position = Defense

| shoots = Right

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 195

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|6|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| draft = 149th overall

| draft_year = 1985

| draft_team = Pittsburgh Penguins

| career_start = 1989

| career_end = 2005

| ntl_team = USA

}}

Paul Frederick Stanton (born June 22, 1967) is an American former professional ice hockey player.

Career

Drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1985 as a high school senior, Paul chose to play for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and was named an NCAA West All-American in 1988.

He played his first NHL game in the 1991 season for the Penguins, and was a member of the Stanley Cup winning team in 1991 and 1992. He was later traded to the Boston Bruins and then to the New York Islanders, playing parts of those seasons with each team's respective minor league teams.

In 1995 and 1996 he played 13 matches for Team USA at the Ice Hockey World Championships, winning the bronze medal.

In 1996 he left the NHL for Europe, playing in the DEL for the Adler Mannheim. With Mannheim he won the German championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Prior to the 2000–01 season, he became a member of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers until 2002, when he started for the Frankfurt Lions.

His most recent team has been IF Redhawks Malmö of the Swedish Elitserien.

Paul Stanton currently resides in Naples, Florida and now serves as an assistant coach for the Florida Gulf Coast University Hockey Team.

Career statistics

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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! colspan="5" | Regular season

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! colspan="5" | Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

1985–86

| University of Wisconsin

| NCAA

| 36

461016

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1986–87

| University of Wisconsin

| NCAA

| 41

5172270

| —

1987–88

| University of Wisconsin

| NCAA

| 45

9384798

| —

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| 1988–89

| University of Wisconsin

| NCAA

| 45

72936126

| —

1989–90

| Muskegon Fury

| IHL

| 77

5273261

| 15

24621
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| 1990–91

| Pittsburgh Penguins

| NHL

| 75

5182340

| 22

12324
1991–92

| Pittsburgh Penguins

| NHL

| 54

281062

| 21

17842
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1992–93

| Pittsburgh Penguins

| NHL

| 77

4121697

| 1

0110
1993–94

| Boston Bruins

| NHL

| 71

371054

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1994–95

| Denver Grizzlies

| IHL

| 11

26815

| —

1994–95

| Providence Bruins

| AHL

| 8

4484

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1994–95

| New York Islanders

| NHL

| 18

0449

| —

1995–96

| Adler Mannheim

| DEL

| 47

13243788

| 8

2578
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1996–97

| Adler Mannheim

| DEL

| 50

5263164

| 9

24626
1997–98

| Adler Mannheim

| DEL

| 48

11273872

| 10

461022
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1998–99

| Adler Mannheim

| DEL

| 38

6162250

| 12

27922
1999–00

| Adler Mannheim

| DEL

| 56

2192177

| 4

01137
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2000–01

| Nuremberg Ice Tigers

| DEL

| 49

111930104

| 4

11226
2001–02

| Nuremberg Ice Tigers

| DEL

| 57

7293794

| 4

1128
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2002–03

| Frankfurt Lions

| DEL

| 49

102232167

| —

2003–04

| Frankfurt Lions

| DEL

| 52

83038104

| 15

191036
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| 2004–05

| Malmö Redhawks

| SHL

| 6

01127

| —

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! colspan="3" | NHL totals

! ALIGN="center" | 295

! ALIGN="center" | 14

! ALIGN="center" | 49

! ALIGN="center" | 63

! ALIGN="center" | 262

! ALIGN="center" | 44

! ALIGN="center" | 2

! ALIGN="center" | 10

! ALIGN="center" | 12

! ALIGN="center" | 66

ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | DEL totals

! ALIGN="center" | 446

! ALIGN="center" | 73

! ALIGN="center" | 212

! ALIGN="center" | 286

! ALIGN="center" | 820

! ALIGN="center" | 72

! ALIGN="center" | 13

! ALIGN="center" | 37

! ALIGN="center" | 50

! ALIGN="center" | 201

Awards and honors

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! Award

! Year

!

All-WCHA Second Team

| 1987–88

| {{cite news|title=WCHA All-Teams|url=http://www.augenblick.org/chha/wcha_all.html|publisher=College Hockey Historical Archives|accessdate=May 19, 2013}}

AHCA West First-Team All-American

| 1987–88

| {{cite news|title=Men's Ice Hockey Award Winners|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_icehockey_rb/2013/MIH%20awards%20for%202013.pdf|publisher=NCAA.org|accessdate=June 11, 2013}}

WCHA All-Tournament Team

| 1988

| {{cite news|title=WCHA Tourney History|url=http://wcha.com/men/tourney/history.php|publisher=WCHA|accessdate=2014-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822214038/http://www.wcha.com/men/tourney/history.php|archive-date=2018-08-22|url-status=dead}}

All-WCHA First Team

| 1988–89

|

References

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