Everett Sanipass is a retired Canadian ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 forward

Forward (ice hockey)

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Playing career

Sanipass started his National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 career with the Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...

 in 1987 after being drafted 14th overall in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft

1986 NHL Entry Draft

The 1986 NHL Entry Draft was held on June 21, 1986 at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. The National Hockey League teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1985–86 NHL season and playoff standings...

. Sanipass would also play for the Quebec Nordiques

Quebec Nordiques

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Sanipass would also become famed for his role in the 1987 World Junior Hockey Championship brawl (Punch-up in Piestany

Punch-up in Piestany

The Punch-up in Piestany was an infamous bench-clearing brawl between Canada and the Soviet Union during the final game of the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia on January 4, 1987...

) that took place between Canada and the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. Both teams left the bench, prompting the referees, who were unable to stop the fighting, to leave the ice surface for their own safety. Officials even tried to turn off the lights with the hopes of causing the players to be so concerned with their own safety that they would stop fighting. Both teams were ultimately kicked out of the tournament for their unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Career statistics

                                            --- Regular Season ---  ---- Playoffs ----

Season   Team                        Lge    GP    G    A  Pts  PIM  GP   G   A Pts PIM

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1984-85  Verdun Junior Canadiens     QMJHL  38    8   11   19   84  12   2   5   7  66

1985-86  Verdun Junior Canadiens     QMJHL  67   28   66   94  320   5   0   2   2  16

1986-87  Verdun Junior Canadiens     QMJHL  24   17   36   53  175  --  --  --  --  --

1986-87  Granby Bisons               QMJHL  11   17   12   29   45   8   6   4  10  48

1986-87  Chicago Blackhawks          NHL     7    1    3    4    2  --  --  --  --  --

1987-88  Chicago Blackhawks          NHL    57    8   12   20  126   2   2   0   2   2

1988-89  Saginaw Hawks               IHL    23    9   12   21   76  --  --  --  --  --

1988-89  Chicago Blackhawks          NHL    50    6    9   15  164   3   0   0   0   2

1989-90  Indianapolis Ice            IHL    33   15   13   28  121  --  --  --  --  --

1989-90  Chicago Blackhawks          NHL    12    2    2    4   17  --  --  --  --  --

1989-90  Quebec Nordiques            NHL     9    3    3    6    8  --  --  --  --  --

1990-91  Halifax Citadels            AHL    14   11    7   18   41  --  --  --  --  --

1990-91  Quebec Nordiques            NHL    29    5    5   10   41  --  --  --  --  --

1991-92  Halifax Citadels            AHL     7    3    5    8   31  --  --  --  --  --

1992-93  Halifax Citadels            AHL     9    1    3    4   36  --  --  --  --  --

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         NHL Totals                        164   25   34   59  358   5   2   0   2   4

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