Chris Valentine

Christopher William Valentine (born December 6, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. He played 105 games in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals from 1981 to 1983. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1981 to 1996, was mainly spent with Düsseldorfer EG in the Eishockey-Bundesliga and Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Chris Valentine
Born	(1961-12-06) December 6, 1961 (age 63) Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position	Centre
Played for	Washington Capitals Düsseldorfer EG
NHL draft	194th overall, 1981 Washington Capitals
Playing career	1981–1996

Biography

Valentine was born in Belleville, Ontario and raised in Kanata, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1973 and 1974 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from North Shore.^[1]

Valentine began his hockey career in 1978 at St. Louis University before moving to the QMJHL's Sorel Black Hawks. He was selected in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in the tenth round by the Washington Capitals. Starting with the 1981–82 NHL season he played for the Capitals and their farm team, the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League. He played 105 NHL games, all with the Capitals, during his career.

As a free agent following the 1983–84 NHL season, Valentine elected to sign in Germany with DEG in Düsseldorf. From 1990 to 1993 and again in 1996, Valentine led DEG to the German national championship. By the end of his career in 1996 he had played 571 games for DEG.

After the end of his playing career Valentine became a coach, accepting the head coaching position with DEG in 1997. In 1998 he moved to the EV Landshut, later to Adler Mannheim and in 2001 to the Krefeld Pinguine. In 2003, Valentine ended his coaching career in Germany and returned to his native Canada with his family. In December 2006 he took over as head coach of the EHC Black Wings Linz of the Austrian Hockey League and returned to Canada at the end of the 2006–07 season for personal reasons.^[2]

Valentine is the father of Canadian figure skater and television personality Mandy Valentine.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1977–78	Lac St-Louis Lions	QMAAA		39	41	61	102	105		7	6	15	21	26
1978–79	Saint Louis University	CCHA		34	27	44	71	52		—	—	—	—	—
1979–80	Verdun/Sorel Éperviers	QMJHL		72	48	80	128	76		—	—	—	—	—
1980–81	Sorel Éperviers	QMJHL		72	65	77	142	176		5	5	5	10	8
1981–82	Washington Capitals	NHL		60	30	37	67	92		—	—	—	—	—
1981–82	Hershey Bears	AHL		19	12	9	21	69		—	—	—	—	—
1982–83	Washington Capitals	NHL		23	7	10	17	14		2	0	0	0	4
1982–83	Hershey Bears	AHL		51	31	38	69	66		—	—	—	—	—
1983–84	Washington Capitals	NHL		22	6	5	11	21		—	—	—	—	—
1983–84	Hershey Bears	AHL		47	15	44	59	41		—	—	—	—	—
1984–85	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		36	37	42	79	74		4	1	3	4	24
1985–86	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		45	36	67	103	98		9	9	15	24	19
1986–87	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		42	28	50	78	71		8	4	11	15	—
1987–88	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		43	34	50	84	63		10	4	14	18	23
1988–89	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		36	27	47	74	34		11	4	10	14	27
1989–90	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		36	27	39	66	35		11	5	10	15	22
1990–91	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		42	22	52	74	76		12	8	13	21	8
1991–92	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		44	32	49	81	56		9	10	8	18	16
1992–93	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		44	26	44	70	56		11	7	10	17	6
1993–94	Düsseldorfer EG	GER		43	19	40	59	52		12	2	5	7	14
1994–95	Düsseldorfer EG	DEL		41	15	32	47	102		10	10	7	17	16
1995–96	Düsseldorfer EG	DEL		26	9	8	17	22		12	5	10	15	30
GER totals				411	288	480	768	615		97	54	99	153	—
NHL totals				105	43	52	95	127		2	0	0	0	4

Awards and honours

DEG has retired Valentine's number 10.

Award	Year
All-CCHA Second Team	1978-79	[3]