Scott Walker (ice hockey)

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


image_size= 250px
team=Carolina Hurricanes
former_teams = Nashville Predators
Vancouver Canucks
league = NHL
position = Right Wing/Left Wing
shoots = Right
height_ft = 5
height_in = 10
weight_lb = 196
nationality = CAN
birth_date = Birth date and age|1973|7|19|mf=y
birth_place = Cambridge, ON, CAN
draft = 124th overall
draft_year = 1993
draft_team = Vancouver Canucks
career_start = 1993

Scott Walker (born July 19, 1973, in Cambridge, Ontario), is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He plays right wing for the Carolina Hurricanes, but prior to the 1996–97 NHL season he played defense.

Playing career

Scott Walker was selected 124th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. He was selected as the 4th choice of the Vancouver Canucks on June 26, 1993. Exactly five years later on June 26, 1998 he was chosen by the Nashville Predators in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft.

Walker became the highest-scoring player in Nashville Predators history during the 2003–04 NHL season. At that time he was one of only three remaining original Predators on the Nashville roster (along with Greg Johnson and Tomas Vokoun).

He played 589 regular season NHL games over ten seasons before making it to post season play. That is the second longest wait in NHL history. Only Guy Charron played more games without making the playoffs. Charron retired in 1981 after 734 games, before he ever played a single post season game.

He has two career hat tricks. The first came December 26, 2000 against the Colorado Avalanche at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville. The first two goals were against David Aebischer and the third was into an empty net.His second hat trick came against the Phoenix Coyotes on December 22, 2002, also in Nashville. All three goals came against Brian Boucher.

He was the first person to ever score an NHL goal at Glendale Arena when on December 27, 2003 he got the puck past Sean Burke at 14:17 of the first period in the arena's first hockey game.

When Greg Johnson was sidlined with injuries, Walker served as the Predators' interim captain from January 12 - January 25, 2003.

Walker was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes on July 18, 2006 for Josef Vasicek.

On June 20, 2007, the Hurricanes announced that Walker signed a new three-year contract at $2.5 million per season.Walker will donate 1% of this to fellow Canadian, Markham native and Yemi Esuola's favourite student, Scott Walker of WLU.

Awards

*Named to the OHL Second All-Star Team in 1993.
*Member of the Owen Sound Platers' Mastercard All-Time Team.
*NHL’s Offensive Player of the Week for December 22–28, 2003.

Records

*Nashville Predators franchise record for career goals, 96
*Nashville Predators franchise record for career PIM, 465
*NHL record for games played before making the post season, 589 -- Guy Charron played 734 but he never appeared in the post season

Career statistics

International play

*Played for Team Canada in the 1999 World Championships.
*Team Canada assistant captain at the 2001 World Championships.

International statistics

ee also

*List of NHL players
*List of NHL seasons
*List of AHL seasons
*List of OHL seasons

External links

*hockeydb|5619|Scott Walker