Douglas Daniel Weight (born January 21, 1971) is an
American
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professional
ice hockey
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coach, executive and former player. He is also the former head coach and assistant
general manager
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for the
New York Islanders
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. During his 19-year
National Hockey League
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career, he played for the
New York Rangers
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,
Edmonton Oilers
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,
Carolina Hurricanes
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,
Anaheim Ducks
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,
St. Louis Blues
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and the
New York Islanders
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.
Playing career
As a youth, Weight played in the 1983
Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament
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with the Detroit Compuware
minor ice hockey
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team.
He graduated in 1989 from
Notre Dame High School in
Harper Woods, Michigan
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Harper Woods is a northeastern suburb of Metro Detroit and shares its southern and western border with the city of Det ...
. He was drafted by the
Bloomfield Jets of the
North American Junior Hockey League (now known as the NAHL). During that time, high school hockey was not considered to be competitive enough in the
Detroit, Michigan area. Weight followed in the footsteps of several other Detroit-area players by playing in the NAJHL, including
Pat Lafontaine and
Mike Modano. Weight led the NAJHL in scoring, and was recruited by
Lake Superior State University
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.
Weight played two years in the
NCAA
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with LSSU from 1989–91. He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the
1990 NHL Entry Draft
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with their second pick, 34th overall. After completing his second year with his college team, he played a single playoff game with the Rangers in 1991, then split time between the Rangers and their
AHL affiliate the
Binghamton Rangers
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History
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. He played 65 games with the Rangers in his first full NHL season,
1992–93
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, before being traded to the Edmonton Oilers for forward
Esa Tikkanen.
Weight played eight and a half seasons with the Oilers, secluding a stint with
SB Rosenheim of the
German Elite League (DEL) during the shortened
1994–95 NHL season
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, serving as their captain from 1999–2001. It was as an Oiler that he earned his reputation as a premiere playmaker, leading Edmonton to five consecutive playoff appearances and scoring a personal-best 104 points during the troubled
1995–96 season. Due to Edmonton's precarious financial situation, Weight was traded on July 1, 2001, to the
St. Louis Blues
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, along with
Michel Riesen, for forwards
Marty Reasoner and
Jochen Hecht
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Hecht played 833 games in the National Hockey League (N ...
and
defenseman
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Jan Horáček.
Weight spent the next three seasons with the Blues before returning to the DEL, due to the
2004 NHL Lockout
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, to play in the final stages of the
2004–05 season with the
Frankfurt Lions
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History
The hockey team was founded as a se ...
. Upon the resumption of the NHL in the
2005–06 season, Weight returned to the weakened Blues before he was traded after waiving a no-trade clause, along with the rights to Erkki Rajamaki, to the
Carolina Hurricanes
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for
Jesse Boulerice
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Back ...
,
Mike Zigomanis
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, the rights to Magnus Kahnberg and draft picks on January 30, 2006.
In the
2006 Stanley Cup Finals
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against his former team the Oilers, Weight and the Hurricanes suffered a huge blow during Game 5, when he was sandwiched heavily along the boards by
Raffi Torres and
Chris Pronger
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Originally selected second overall by the Hartfor ...
in the second period of the game, which the Oilers won 4–3 in overtime on June 14, 2006. Weight missed the remainder of the Finals with a shoulder injury. His place in roster went to
Erik Cole. The
Carolina Hurricanes
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won the
Stanley Cup
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in 7 games.
Weight then returned to the Blues as a free agent, signing a two-year contract on July 2, 2006. During the
2006–07 season, Weight played his
1,000th game against the
Edmonton Oilers
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on November 17, 2006. With the Blues out of contention for the playoffs for the third season in a row, Weight was again traded to the
Anaheim Ducks
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for center
Andy McDonald on December 14, 2007.
On July 2, 2008, Weight was given a one-year contract by the rebuilding
New York Islanders
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. On January 2, 2009, Weight registered his
1,000th point while playing for the Islanders, with an assist on a goal scored by
Richard Park. Weight re-signed with the Islanders for the
2009–10 season. For his contributions to the community during the Islanders 2009-10 training camp held in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, the baseball diamond at
Wallace Park
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in Saskatoon was named in Weight's honor. He succeeded former longtime Oiler teammate,
Bill Guerin, as captain of the Islanders on October 2, 2009. Despite missing a large portion of the season to various injures and scoring 1 goal in 36 games, Weight was signed to a one-year extension with the Islanders on August 31, 2010.
After enduring a second consecutive year decimated by a lingering back injury, Weight announced his retirement following the
2010–11
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season on May 26, 2011. With his retirement as a player from the game of hockey after 19 seasons in the
NHL, it was immediately announced by the Islanders' general manager,
Garth Snow
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Drafted by the Quebec Nordi ...
, that Weight would continue on with the organization as an assistant coach and special assistant to the GM. Weight is ranked number 7 out of all American players in points.
Coaching career
Weight became an assistant coach under then-head coach
Jack Capuano
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in the 2011–12 season. On January 17, 2017, the Islanders fired Capuano and promoted Weight to interim coach. On April 12, 2017, Weight was officially named head coach after he led the team to a 24–12–4 record after taking the coaching duties in the middle of the season.
On June 5, 2018, Weight was fired as head coach of the Islanders.
International play
Weight has played several times internationally for his country. He made 3
World Championship
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appearances for the United States in 1993, 1994 and 2005. He was a part of the silver medal winning team at the
2002 Winter Olympics
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in
Salt Lake City
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, and also played with Team USA at the 1996 and 2004
World Cup of Hockey, and the
1998 Winter Olympics
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in
Nagano.
In his only junior tournament in the
1991 World Junior Championships, he led the entire tournament in scoring with 5 goals and 14 assists in 7 games for Team USA.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
NHL coaching record
Awards and honors
References
External links
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Doug Weight-Stars and Stripes In The Great White NorthDoug Weight's Day With the Stanley Cup
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1971 births
Living people
American men's ice hockey centers
Anaheim Ducks players
Binghamton Rangers players
Carolina Hurricanes players
Edmonton Oilers players
Frankfurt Lions players
Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey people from Michigan
King Clancy Memorial Trophy winners
Lake Superior State Lakers men's ice hockey players
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
New York Islanders coaches
New York Islanders executives
New York Islanders players
New York Rangers draft picks
New York Rangers players
National Hockey League All-Stars
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey
Sportspeople from Warren, Michigan
St. Louis Blues players
Stanley Cup champions
Starbulls Rosenheim players
United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans
Ice hockey coaches from Michigan
Ice hockey players from Michigan