He signed on to play for the Anchorage Aces of the defunct West Coast Hockey League the following season but returned to Nottingham after 40 games with the Alaska team. Paek played in 27 Stanley Cup Playoffs games, scoring a goal and 4 assists.Īfter bouncing around the old International Hockey League, Paek crossed the pond and joined the Panthers in 2001-01.
He appeared in 217 NHL regular season games with the Penguins, Los Angeles Kings and Ottawa Senators, tallying 5 goals and 29 assists. Jim Paek played defense on the Pittsburgh Penguins’ back-to-back Stanley Cup teams in the 1990s (Photo/Pittsburgh Penguins). He helped anchor Pittsburgh’s defense during the team’s back-to-back Stanley Cup run in 1990-92. Paek became the NHL’s first Korean-born player when he joined the Penguins in the 1990-91 season. Met a lot of great friends that we made in the past, and it’s been absolutely great.”
She wanted to come back and have a little feeling of Christmas, and we sure have received that here. “We like to call this home, in Nottingham,” Paek told team General Manager Gary Moran on Panthers TV. The Panthers, now a member of the Elite Ice Hockey League, honored Paek on December 27 before its game against the Sheffield Steelers.
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Paek and his family spent the Christmas holiday in Nottingham, the place where he closed out his professional playing career with the Nottingham Panthers in the early 2000s.
Jim Paek won two Stanley Cups in Pittsburgh, coached for his native South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, and helped develop players for the Detroit Red Wings farm team in Grand Rapids, Michigan.īut the retired National Hockey League defenseman recently called Nottingham, England, “home.”
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