Todd Harvey (center) with Team Canada teammates Jamie Storr and Dan Cloutier after a World Junior Championship game in Alberta in 1995. The team clinched the gold medal after an 8-5 win over Russia. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Spectator

Todd Harvey

Todd Harvey
Hamilton area player and former NHLer part of Canada’s World Junior squad

Born Feb 17 1975 - Hamilton, ONT
Height 6.00 - Weight 195 - Shoots Right

Todd Harvey has had an illustrious career in hockey, not only in the majors, but playing with the Canadian team in the World Junior Hockey Championships.

Born in 1975, this forward from Sheffield was a product of the Beverly minor hockey system, playing with the Cambridge Winterhawks in OHA Junior B competition for the 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons where he amassed 67 goals in 76 games.

Harvey is pushed down into the Swedish net but came back to help Team Canada win the World title 6-4 over the Swedes in January of 1994. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Spectator

He was then drafted as first overall into the OHL by the Junior Detroit Red Wings, where once again he was a prolific scorer, scoring 84 goals in 104 games over two seasons. And before he went to play in the NHL, Harvey played with Team Canada twice, in 1994 and 1995.

In the two annual seven-game series, he scored four times and six times. It was also in 1994 that he was the first pick of the Dallas Stars. He was not sure what would take place during the draft, but knew at the time he wanted to play in the NHL.

“I’m sort of nervous because I don’t really know what’s going to happen,” Harvey said before the draft. “I have no preferences at all about teams.”

But before donning a Stars jersey for the 1994-95 season, the captain of Team Canada returned home triumphant with his team in January of 1994 after winning the World Junior Hockey Championship over Sweden in the Czech Republic.

Harvey back home in Canada after his team won the gold in the World Junior Championships in 1994. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Spectator

“We knew we had a shot at winning the medal,” said the 18-year old at the time. “Being the underdogs gave us an extra incentive to get over the top.”

In Harvey’s first year with Dallas, he scored 11 times for the 40 games played, and remained with the club for four seasons before being traded to the New York Rangers in the latter stages of the 1997-98 season.

He played only 68 games with the Rangers in the next two years, and then the forward went to the San Jose Sharks for the next five seasons. After only 47 games for the 2003-04 season with the Sharks, and some time with the Cleveland Barons of the AHL and the Cambridge Hornets in the OHA, the free agent signed with the Edmonton Oilers for the 2005-06 season, scoring five times in 63 games.

With 91 goals in playing for four teams and 671 games in the NHL, Harvey joined the Dundas Real McCoys in February of 2007, and continues to play right-wing for the Ontario Senior AAA franchise.

Honours:

* 1992 - Named to 1991-92 CHL and OHL 1st Rookie Team
* 1993 - Selected by Dallas Stars round 1 #9 overall 1993 NHL Entry Draft
* 1994 - Led Detroit Jr. Red Wings to 1993-94 Emms Division title
* 1994 - Gold medal with Team Canada at the 1994 IIHF World Junior Championship in the Czech Republic
* 1995 - Gold medal as captain of Team Canada at the 1995 IIHF World Junior Championship in Alberta

YouTube video clip: Todd Harvey VS Rob Ray

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