- Pat Falloon
Infobox Ice Hockey Player
played_for =HC Davos (Swiss)Pittsburgh Penguins Edmonton Oilers Ottawa Senators Philadelphia Flyers San Jose Sharks
position = Right Wing
shot = Right
height_ft = 5
height_in = 11
weight_lb = 200
nickname =
nationality = CAN
birth_date = birth date and age|1972|9|22
birth_place = Foxwarren, MB, CAN
draft = 2nd overall
draft_year = 1991
draft_team =San Jose Sharks
career_start = 1991
career_end = 2001
image_size =Pat Falloon (born
22 September ,1972 in Foxwarren,Manitoba ,Canada ) is a retiredprofessional ice hockey right winger who played nine seasons in theNational Hockey League between 1991 and 2000. Starting with theSan Jose Sharks ,Philadelphia Flyers ,Ottawa Senators ,Edmonton Oilers , andPittsburgh Penguins . He would also play a season in the Swiss National League. The first player drafted by the Sharks, Falloon had a standout junior career in theWestern Hockey League , with consecutive 60 goal seasons before being drafted.Playing career
Falloon was drafted 2nd overall by the
San Jose Sharks in the1991 NHL Entry Draft . He was the first ever draft pick in the history of the San Jose Sharks organization. After playing in San Jose for four years he was traded November 16, 1995 to thePhiladelphia Flyers in exchange for LWMartin Spanhel , a first round draft choice in the 1996 Entry Draft and a third round draft choice. (These picks were later transferred to the Buffalo Sabres and used to acquire Daniel Briere andMike Martone , respectively).He was traded January 17, 1998 to the Ottawa Senators along with
Vaclav Prospal and a second round draft choice, in exchange forAlexandre Daigle , the overall first draft pick in 1993. He later played for both theEdmonton Oilers andPittsburgh Penguins .After 2000, he was no longer an active NHL player. After playing for Davos in Switzerland for the 2000–2001 season, Falloon returned home to play in his hometown, for the Foxwarren Falcons - a team from the tiny North Central Hockey League in western Manitoba. Not surprisingly, he has been a top scorer in the league. With the Falcons, he helped them win six straight league championships from 2001-02 to 2006-07 (the Falcons also won without Falloon in 2000-01). This string of championships was broken in 2007-08.
As the second overall pick, Falloon will probably always be remembered as the 'consolation prize' in the 1991 draft, since No. 1 pick
Eric Lindros was easily the most coveted player available that year. Still, Falloon was considered a talented prospect in his own right, and the Sharks expected him to be one of the building blocks of their young franchise in the coming decade. Falloon delivered decent returns as a rookie, notching 59 points in 1991–92, but never topped that production for the remainder of his career.Falloon was named
Memorial Cup Tournament MVP in 1991 with theSpokane Chiefs of the WHL.He played 575 career NHL games, scoring 143 goals and 179 assists for 322 points.
Career statistics
--- Regular Season --- ---- Playoffs ----Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1988-89 Spokane Chiefs WHL 72 22 56 78 41 -- -- -- -- --1989-90 Spokane Chiefs WHL 71 60 64 124 48 6 5 8 13 41990-91 Spokane Chiefs WHL 61 64 74 138 33 15 10 14 24 101991-92 San Jose Sharks NHL 79 25 34 59 16 -- -- -- -- --1992-93 San Jose Sharks NHL 41 14 14 28 12 -- -- -- -- --1993-94 San Jose Sharks NHL 83 22 31 53 18 14 1 2 3 61994-95 San Jose Sharks NHL 46 12 7 19 25 11 3 1 4 01995-96 San Jose Sharks NHL 9 3 0 3 4 -- -- -- -- --1995-96 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 62 22 26 48 6 12 3 2 5 21996-97 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 52 11 12 23 10 14 3 1 4 21997-98 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 30 5 7 12 8 -- -- -- -- --1997-98 Ottawa Senators NHL 28 3 3 6 8 1 0 0 0 01998-99 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 17 23 40 20 4 0 1 1 41999-00 Edmonton Oilers NHL 33 5 13 18 4 -- -- -- -- --1999-00 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 30 4 9 13 10 10 1 0 1 22000-01 Davos NLA 43 12 26 38 49 4 1 0 1 2-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NHL Totals 575 143 179 322 141 66 11 7 18 16ee also
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List of WHL seasons
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