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Playing career
  
1981–1996

Role
  
Ice hockey player

Weight
  
86 kg

Career end
  
1996

Name
  
Chris Valentine

Height
  
1.85 m

Career start
  
1981

Positions
  
Centerman

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Born
  
December 6, 1961 (age 62) Belleville, ON, CAN (
1961-12-06
)

NHL Draft
  
194th overall, 1981Washington Capitals

Played for
  
Washington Capitals, Dusseldorfer EG

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Christopher William Valentine (born December 6, 1961 in Belleville, Ontario and raised in Kanata, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach.

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Bio

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 10th 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 Dusseldorf. From 1990-93 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.

Other

  • Chris Valentine is the father of Canadian figure skater and television personality Mandy Valentine.
  • Due to his success there as a player, DEG has retired Valentine's number 10.
  • References

    Chris Valentine Wikipedia