Ray Emery

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Ray Emery (born September 28, 1982 in Cayuga, Ontario} is an ice-hockey goaltender currently serving as the goaltender for the Ottawa Senators of the NHL.

Contents

1 Hockey career

1.1 2005-2006 season

2 Career statistics

2.1 Regular season
2.2 Playoffs

3 Awards
4 References

Hockey career

Emery started his junior hockey career in 1998 in Junior C with the Dunnville Terriers of the OJHL. Despite recording only 3 wins in over 20 games, Emery was named the Rookie of the Year in 1998-99. In 1999, Emery was drafted by OHL's Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds in the 5th round of the OHL draft. Emery split the 1999-2000 season between the Welland Cougars of the OHA and the Greyhounds in the OHL. It was his first of the three seasons with the Greyhounds.

In 2001, after an 18 win, 29 loss season, Emery was drafted to the NHL by the Ottawa Senators. He was selected 99th overall. Emery had his most successful OHL season in 2001-2002. He won 33 of 59 games, and was named Goaltender of the Year in the OHL. He was also named Goaltender of the Year for the entire CHL.

In 2002-2003, Emery moved on to the Binghamton Senators of the AHL for his first season as a professional. He again had a solid season, winning 27 of 50 games. He was named to the AHL's All-Rookie team for 2003. He played two more full seasons in the AHL in 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. He also played in 6 NHL games with Ottawa.

Emery began his NHL career by setting a record for wins to start a career in the 2005-2006 season. Emery won his first nine games, moving ahead of Bob Froese, who started the 1982-83 season with eight wins while playing for the Philadelphia Flyers. In March of the same season, Emery won 12 games, tying legend Bernie Parent's record for the most wins in a month which Parent set in 1974.

Emery has a reputation as somewhat of a fighter. In 2000-2001 with the Greyhounds, Emery was involved in 4 on-ice fights. In his first season with Binghamton, Emery was suspended twice. He also had a rather ugly altercation with Denis Hamel of the Rochester Americans. Emery went after his future teammate after some racial slurs were said during a game.

Emery's fighting ways continued in 2003-2004. He was also suspended for 5 games for a stick swinging attack on Michel Ouellet of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

On January 30, 2006, Emery was the target of many critics as a result of a design which was painted on a goalie mask. Emery, who is an avid boxing fan wore a mask with a picture of Mike Tyson painted on it. The controversy came into question as a result of Tyson's reputation and past rape convictions. After speaking to Senators management, Emery decided not to wear the mask as both he and management felt it was inappropriate for hockey. During the 2006 NHL playoffs Emery wore a new mask featuring the legendary Canadian heavyweight boxer George Chuvalo.["Recap of the Senators 4-1 first round win over the Lightning"], NHL.com, April 22, 2006.

2005-2006 season

During the beginning of the 2005-2006 season, Emery was mainly used as back-up for Dominik Hasek. However, when Hasek injured his groin during the 2006 Winter Olympics, Emery became the goalie who would have to bring the Senators down the road for the playoffs. Emery had irregular sequences, but maintained a record over .500 after the Olympics (especially due to a hot sequence immediately for the Olympics). However, Emery showed some signs of struggling at the end of the season when several key players were out due to injuries or personal reasons.

In the first round of the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Emery despite the lack of playoff experience managed to play solid goaltending in the first round against Tampa Bay despite critics from Lightning coach John Torterella saying that "he was the weakest point". However, during the first game against Buffalo, Emery allowed 7 goals in 23 shots during a 7-6 overtime loss in which the Senators were leading until 10 seconds near the end of the 3rd period and give up a goal 18 seconds into the first overtime. However, Emery played well the rest of the series despite giving up 3 goals in 4 shots in overtime. After the season the Senators decided not to bring back Hasek, and instead bring in Martin Gerber to battle Emery for the number 1 goaltending job.

Career statistics

Regular season


Season	Team	League	GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA
1998-99	Dunnville Terriers	OJHL-C	22	3	19	0	1320	140	0	6.36
1999-00	Welland Cougars	OJHL-B	23	13	10	0	1323	62	1	2.81
1999-00	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL	16	9	3	0	716	36	1	3.02
2000-01	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL	52	18	29	2	2938	174	1	3.55
2001-02	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL	59	33	17	9	3477	158	4	2.73
2002-03	Binghamton Senators	AHL	50	27	17	6	2924	118	7	2.42
2002-03	Ottawa Senators	NHL	3	1	0	0	84	2	0	1.42
2003-04	Binghamton Senators	AHL	53	21	23	7	3109	128	3	2.47
2003-04	Ottawa Senators	NHL	3	2	0	0	126	5	0	2.38
2004-05	Binghamton Senators	AHL	51	28	18	5	2993	132	0	2.65
2005-06	Ottawa Senators	NHL	39	23	11	0	2168	102	3	2.82
NHL Totals			45	26	11	0	2378	109	3	2.75

Playoffs


Season	Team	League	GP	W	L	MIN	GA	SO	GAA
1999-00	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL	15	8	7	883	33	3	2.24
2001-02	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL	6	2	4	360	19	1	3.16
2002-03	Binghamton Senators	AHL	14	8	6	848	40	2	2.83
2003-04	Binghamton Senators	AHL	2	0	2	120	6	0	3.00
2004-05	Binghamton Senators	AHL	6	2	4	409	14	0	2.05
2005-06	Ottawa Senators	NHL	10	5	5	604	29	0	2.88
NHL Totals			10	5	5	604	29	0	2.88

Awards

CHL

Goaltender of the Year - 2002

OHL

Goaltender of the Year - 2002

References

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