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1982 NHL DRAFT PICK
Paul Cyr
Selected in first round
No. 9 overall by Buffalo Sabres

Born October 31, 1963
Position: Left Wing
Height: 5-10   Weight: 180
BEFORE THE DRAFT
Last Team: Victoria (WHL)                                
Birthplace: Port Alberni, B.C. (Canada)
Hometown: Port Alberni, British Columbia
PRE-DRAFT STATISTICS
Year TeamLeague GPG ATP PIM
1979-80 NanaimoBCJHL 6028 5280 202
  VictoriaWHL ---- ---- --
1980-81 VictoriaWHL 6436 2258 85
1981-82 VictoriaWHL 5852 56108 167

PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
World Junior Championships:
1982 (gold medal)
WHL All-Star Second Team: 1981-82 (Victoria)
Miscellaneous: Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
No. 6 overall prospect and No. 4 WHL prospect for the 1982 NHL draft. ... Joined Victoria for 1980 WHL playoffs despite not having played for team during 1979-80 regular-season. ... Played on first Canadian team to win a gold medal at World Junior Championships in 1982.
NHL CAREER
Debut: October 6, 1982 (Quebec at Buffalo)
Numbers:  8, 18 (Buffalo); 22 (N.Y. Rangers); 18 (Hartford)
Stanley Cup: Never won.  Playing Status: Retired 1993
CAREER NHL STATISTICS
Years TeamsGP GA TPPIM
1982-1992 Buffalo, NYR, Hartford 470101 140241 623
CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS
Years TeamsGP GA TPPIM
1983-1991 Buffalo, Hartford24 46 1031

NHL AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous:
Scored goal in his first NHL game. The goal was also Buffalo's first of the 1982-83 season. Cyr beat Quebec goaltender Dan Bouchard at 11:40 of the first period in an eventual 6-4 Nordiques win. ... Missed part of 1982-83 season with thumb injury during Canada's Jan. 4, 1983, game vs. Norway at World Junior Championships. ... Led Buffalo in scoring during 1983 preseason. ... Missed part of 1983-84 season with broken right index finger, suffered in Buffalo's March 6, 1984, game at Montreal. ... Played on line with Mike Moller and Dave Andreychuk for Buffalo in 1983-84. ... Played on line with Gilles Hamel and Sean McKenna for Buffalo in 1983-84 and 1984-85. ... Missed start of 1984-85 season with elbow injury. ... Missed part of 1985-86 season with pulled groin, an injury suffered in Buffalo's Dec. 13, 1985, game vs. Hartford. ... Missed Buffalo's 1986 training camp with broken ankle, an injury suffered during a charity softball game in August 1986. ... Missed part of 1986-87 season with pulled groin, an injury suffered during Buffalo's March 20, 1987, game vs. Montreal. ... Missed part of 1987-88 season with sprained knee, an injury suffered in Buffalo's Oct. 16, 1987, game vs. Quebec. He did not return to action until Buffalo's Nov. 20, 1987, game vs. Washington. ... Played center for N.Y. Rangers during six games in March 1988. ... Missed parts of 1990-91 season with bruised shoulder, suffered during Hartford's Dec. 30, 1990, game at Edmonton, and with the flu, contracted in January 1991.
Cyr's Knee Woes: Due to a major knee injury, Cyr endured a two-year absence for the NHL in the late 1980s. In total, he had to miss the remainder of 1988-89 season, the 1989 playoffs and entire 1989-90 season with a torn ACL and MCL in right knee, an injury suffered when he missed a check on Steve Thomas in N.Y. Rangers' Oct. 6, 1988, season-opener at Chicago. The injury required major reconstructive surgery in October 1988 and again in August 1989. In the second surgery, doctors re-routed three muscles in Cyr's knee. Part of his kneecap was also removed, and the knee was held together with two screws and a pin to help it heal. In February 1990, the Rangers told Cyr he would be released after the season, and he was finally released in July 1990. Because Cyr's agent, Bill Watters, was friendly with Hartford general manager Ed Johnston, the Whalers invited invited Cyr to their 1990 training camp on a free-agent tryout basis and promised him a fair shot at making the team. He made the roster, signed with the Whalers as an unrestricted free agent on Sept. 30, 1990, and finally returned to action in Hartford's Oct. 4, 1990, season-opener vs. Quebec --  having missed 159 consecutive games over two seasons.
NON-NHL CAREER
Post-Draft Teams: Victoria (WHL); Springfield (AHL)
World Junior Championships: 1983 (bronze medal)
NON-NHL AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous:
Did not play his first minor-league games until he was demoted to Springfield (AHL) by Hartford early in 1991-92 season.
Shot on Vacation: Cyr survived a scare on May 20, 1987, when he was shot in the abdomen while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. The incident took place during an attempted robbery. Cyr, then 23, fought off the would-be robbers, who managed to shoot him in the side of his body. The bullet did not cause a major injury, and he recovered from the gunshot within a few weeks. Cyr and his fiancee, Cheryl Pera, were inside a taxi at 9:30 p.m. on the night of the robbery, as they were headed to watch a weightlifting competition. The taxi pulled over at the site of an apparent bus accident, which turned out to be an in-progress hijacking. Two men and a woman had forced the bus off the road in order to rob the passengers. When they saw the taxi coming at them, they decided to rob the occupants and then seize the taxi to flee the scene. The female hijacker held a bayonet to Pera's throat and demanded her necklace. Cyr pushed the bayonet away from his fiancee, and one of the men pointed his gun at Pera. As the man hesitated to shoot, Cyr grabbed the gun and fought with the man in the front seat of the cab. While he was wrestling for the gun, Cyr was shot. Dominican police praised Cyr as a hero for foiling the robbery. "I wish I was remembered for being a 50-goal scorer rather than getting shot by a guy yelling Spanish and demanding pesos," Cyr later said.
Personal: Full name is Paul A. Cyr. ... Uncle of former NHL player Jason Bowen.
HOW HE GOT AWAY
TRADE: Buffalo traded Cyr and 1988 10th-round pick (Eric Fenton) to N.Y. Rangers in exchange for Mike Donnelly and 1988 fifth-round pick (Alexander Mogilny) on December 31, 1987.

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SNAPSHOT '82
Total Selected: 252
Forwards: 152
Defense: 82
Goaltenders: 18
Major Junior: 129
Tier II/Jr. B: 27/4
College Players: 20
High School: 37
Canadian: 152
Euro-Canadian: 3
USA Citizens: 62
U.S.-Born: 62
European: 35
Reached NHL: 109
Stanley Cup: 18
Hall of Fame: 0
All-Star Game: 14
Year-end All-Star: 4
Olympians: 37
Picks Traded: 50
 
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