Position	Center
Shoots	L
Nickname	Roysy, Royvechkin
Height Weight	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) 188 lb (85 kg)
NHL Team	Buffalo Sabres
Nationality	Canada
Born	May 4, 1983, Ottawa, ON, CAN
NHL Draft	32nd overall, 2001 Buffalo Sabres
Pro Career	2003 – present

Derek Roy (born 4 May 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 640 × 480 pixelsFull resolution (640 × 480 pixel, file size: 147 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Derek Roy Metadata This file contains... The position an ice hockey player plays can be divided into three basic categories: Forwards Centre Wingers Defenceman Goaltender ... Centre or Center in ice hockey is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the side boards. ... 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Playing career

Roy led the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL with 87 points during the 1999-00 season, and won the OHL Rookie of the Year trophy. The next season, he scored 42 goals and 81 points. He was drafted 32nd overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. The next season Roy set OHL career highs in goals and points and continued to be the Rangers leading scorer. The Kitchener Rangers are a junior ice hockey team based in Kitchener, Ontario; in Canada a junior team is one for players aged 15 to 20. ... A typical OHL hockey game. ... The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. ... The 2001 NHL Entry Draft was held in June at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise, Florida. ...

During the 2002-03 season, Roy's last in the OHL, He was selected to play for Team Canada in the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, and brought home a silver medal and got player of the game and received a crystal puck. The Rangers team that year also won the Memorial Cup. Roy was captain of the club and won the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as Memorial Cup MVP. The 2003 World Junior (Under 20) Ice Hockey Championships was held between December 26, 2002 and January 5, 2003 in Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. ... The Memorial Cup is the championship trophy of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). ... The Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy is a trophy awared to the most valuable player in the Memorial Cup Tournament of the Canadian Hockey League. ...

Roy moved on the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League the next season. He only played 26 games with the Americans, as he played most of the season with the Sabres. Roy was back with the Americans for the 2004-05 season because of the 2004-05 NHL lockout, and he failed to make the Sabres out of training camp when NHL play resumed in 2005-06. However, he scored 20 points in 8 games with the Americans (including a few 5-point performances) and was called up to the Sabres. The Rochester Americans are one of the most storied franchises in the history of the American Hockey League, winner of six Calder Cups. ... The American Hockey League (AHL) is regarded as the top professional hockey league in North America outside the National Hockey League (NHL) for which it serves as the primary developmental circuit. ... The 2004-05 NHL season would have been the 88th regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The modernized NHL shield logo was introduced for the 2005-06 season. ...

On Friday, March 3rd, 2006, Roy recorded his first NHL hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

Awards

• Named to the OHL All-Rookie Team (2000).
• Named the OHL Rookie of the Year (2000)
• Named to the CHL All-Rookie Team (2000)
• Awarded CHL Plus/Minus Award (2000)
• Named to the Memorial Cup All-Star Team (2003)
• Awarded Wayne Gretzky 99 Award as OHL playoff MVP (2003)
• Awarded Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as Memorial Cup MVP (2003)

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Career statistics

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International play

• Member of Team Canada in 2003 World Junior Championships

International Statistics

See also

• NHL Entry Draft
• List of NHL players
• List of NHL seasons

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External links

• Derek Roy - Sabres.com
• Derek Roy - HockeyDB