Scott Walker (ice hockey)
Scott Walker (Born July 19, 1973, in Cambridge, Ontario), is a professional ice hockey player.
Overview
Scott Walker was selected 124th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. He was selected as the 4th choice of the Vancouver Canucks on June 26, 1993. Exactly five years later on June 26, 1998 he was chosen by the Predators in the expansion draft.
Walker plays right wing, but prior to the 1996-1997 season he played defense.
Walker became the highest-scoring player in Nashville Predators history during the 2003-04 season. At that time he was one of only three remaining original Predators on the Nashville roster (along with Greg Johnson and Tomas Vokoun).
He played 589 regular season NHL games over ten seasons before making it to post season play. That is the second longest wait in NHL history. Only Guy Charron played more games without making the playoffs. Charron retired in 1981 after 734 games, before he ever played a single post season game.
He has two career hat tricks. The first came December 26, 2000 against the Colorado Avalanche at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville. The first two goals where against David Aebischer and the third was into an empty net. His second hat trick came against the Phoenix Coyotes on December 22, 2002, also in Nashville. All three goals came against Brian Boucher.
Awards
- NHL’s Offensive Player of the Week for December 22-28, 2003.
- Predators’ interim captain from January 12-25, 2003.
- Member of the Owen Sound Platters' Mastercard All-Time Team
- Named to the OHL Second All-Star Team in 1993
Records
- Nashville Predator's franchise record for points in a season (67)
- Nashville Predator's franchise career points (231)
- Nashville Predator's franchise career goals (91)
- Nashville Predator's franchise PIM (429)
- Most NHL games played before making the post season (589) -- (Guy Charron played 734 but he never appeared in the post season).
Career Statistics
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1991-92 | Owen Sound | OHL | 53 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 128 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 1992-93 | Owen Sound | OHL | 57 | 23 | 68 | 91 | 110 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 16 | ||
| 1993-94 | Hamilton | AHL | 77 | 10 | 29 | 39 | 272 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||
| 1994-95 | Syracuse | AHL | 74 | 14 | 38 | 52 | 334 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1994-95 | Vancouver | NHL | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 33 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1995-96 | Syracuse | AHL | 15 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 52 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 39 | ||
| 1995-96 | Vancouver | NHL | 63 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 137 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1996-97 | Vancouver | NHL | 64 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 132 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1997-98 | Vancouver | NHL | 59 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 164 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1998-99 | Nashville | NHL | 71 | 15 | 25 | 40 | 103 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1999-00 | Nashville | NHL | 69 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 90 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2000-01 | Nashville | NHL | 74 | 25 | 29 | 54 | 66 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2001-02 | Nashville | NHL | 28 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2002-03 | Nashville | NHL | 60 | 15 | 18 | 33 | 58 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2003-04 | Nashville | NHL | 75 | 25 | 42 | 67 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
International Play
International Statistics
- Played for Team Canada in the 1999 World Championships.
- Team Canada assistant captain at the 2001 World Championships.
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Canada | WC | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| 2001 | Canada | WC | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 |