Jeremy Roenick

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Jeremy Shaffer Roenick (Rönick) (born January 17, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a professional hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Roenick has previously played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, and the Chicago Blackhawks. He was drafted in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, First Round, Eighth Overall by Chicago. His best seasons were 1992-93 and 1993-94 when he had 107 points each.

A famously outspoken individual, Roenick stirred up controversy during 2004-2005's lockout, when he addressed fans that see players as being spoiled. Roenick told these fans to "kiss my ass", and accused them of being jealous. He further stated that he preferred such fans no longer come to NHL games, nor watch them on television. The league had already lost many fans in the 301-day-long lockout, and many felt that Roenick's comments may have done further harm.

The comments were also seemed ill-timed since many felt that Roenick exemplified the allegedly overpaid and underperforming player that contributed to the NHL's financial problems. Roenick earned $7.5 million USD in 2003-2004 despite only 47 points in 62 regular-season games.

Roenick also alienated his team, the Philadelphia Flyers, when he claimed to be suffering from a concussion in order to extract injury pay during the lockout, despite the Flyers' doctors clearing him to play. Deciding to move on without him, the team traded Roenick to the Los Angeles Kings before the start of the 2005 season to clear salary cap space for the team to sign Peter Forsberg.

Roenick has also recently stirred up controversy by claiming that the USA Hockey has "blackballed" him, and is being disrespectful by not including him on the American National Hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. He claimed "I'm a lot better player than my points indicate"; he had six goals and seven assists in 32 games when he made that comment.

On February 8, 2006, The Star Ledger reported that Jeremy Roenick had been identified as one of several NHL players implicated in Operation Slapshot -- an operation created with the intent to uncover a nationwide gambling ring. Other notable names involved in this investigation are Phoenix Coyotes' Assistant Coach Rick Tocchet, and wife of famous NHL player Wayne Gretzky, Janet Jones. [1]

On the whole, Roenick's 2005-06 campaign with the Kings has been greatly disappointing, both for Roenick and for the team. Roenick has stated himself that he does not expect the Kings to be interested in his returning to the team next season.

Roenick and his wife Tracy have two children; daughter, Brandi, and son, Brett. They live in Arizona during the summer.

Tracy Roenick is an avid Equestrian rider, owner and trainer who earned a spot on the United States Equestrian Team Long List in 2001.

Quotations

• "We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come. We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey... I say personally, to everybody who called us 'spoiled,' you guys are just jealous ... we have tried so, so hard to get this game back on the ice." -- June 26, 2005, comments made following the 2005 Mellon Mario Lemieux Celebrity Invitational golf tournament, near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

• "I know nobody on that team has more points in the National Hockey League than me. So if they want to go that way, good luck... [t]o not have the opportunity to go back one more time and try and win the gold is obviously, in my opinion, very disrespectful." -- December 20, 2005 after learning he was not selected to join the fourth U.S. Olympic hockey team.

Stats

Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1988/89	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	20	9	9	18	4
1989/90	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	78	26	40	66	54
1990/91	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	79	41	53	94	80
1991/92	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	80	53	50	103	98
1992/93	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	84	50	57	107	86
1993/94	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	84	46	61	107	125
1994/95	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	33	10	24	34	14
1995/96	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	66	32	35	67	109
1996/97	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL	72	29	40	69	115
1997/98	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL	79	24	32	56	103
1998/99	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL	72	24	48	72	130
1999/2000	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL	75	34	44	78	102
2000/01	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL	80	30	46	76	114
2001/02	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	75	21	46	67	74
2002/03	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	79	27	32	59	75
2003/04	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	62	19	28	47	62
2004/05	Did Not Play (NHL Lockout)
2005/06	Los Angeles Kings	NHL	58	9	13	22	36
NHL Totals:		NHL	1156	481	652	1133	1373

See also

• List of NHL players with 1000 points
• List of NHL seasons
• List of NHL players