About Steve Larmer
Steven Donald Larmer (born June 16, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a right winger for 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers. After excelling in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, Larmer was selected by the Chicago Black Hawks in 1980 in the sixth round of the NHL draft. After spending most of his first two seasons in the minor leagues, he became a regular presence for the team in the 1982–83 season, where he recorded 43 goals in the first of eleven straight seasons with at least 70 points while being awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy for his rookie play. He would go on to have five 40-goal seasons for Chicago and play 884 consecutive games for the team, which ranked as the third-highest consecutive game streak in NHL history at the time. A contract dispute at the start of the 1993–94 season saw him sitout the first thirteen games of the season before he was eventually part of a three-team trade that saw him land with the New York Rangers, where he recorded 60 points in 68 games before playing in all 23 games of the run to the Stanley Cup Final that saw New York win in seven games. In the 1994–95 season, his final one as a player, he recorded his 1,000th career point prior to playing 1,000 career games and retired at the age of 33 with over 400 goals. A two-time All-Star, Larmer made the Stanley Cup playoffs in each of his thirteen full seasons as a player. Internationally, he represented the Canadian team in 1991 for the Men's Ice Hockey World Championships and the Canada Cup, which saw him win the latter with a go-ahead goal in the finals and lead all players in goals scored. He is the brother of Jeff Larmer, who played with Steven for Chicago from 1983 to 1986. == Early life == Larmer was born in Peterborough, Ontario.
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