Booking Mark Messier

Mark Messier Biography

The Canadian ice hockey player Mark Messier was born in 1961 and grew up in St. Albert area. Mark learned to play hockey when he was still in elementary school, and by the time he was a teenager he was playing junior hockey under the guidance of his father, also his coach. As a player with the Alberta Junior Hockey League and St. Albert Saints, Mark grew to become one of the team’s stand-out players, eventually garnering the interest of the Indianapolis Racers.

Messier joined Indianapolis at the age of seventeen, and then signed with the Cincinnati Stingers. In 1979, Mark was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers, with whom he remained until 1991, at which time he was traded to the New York Rangers, the team with which he is most frequently associated today. Today, Mark Messier is considered one of the NHL’s greatest players of all time. Over the course of his career, he brought the Oilers to the Stanley Cup five times and did the same for the Rangers once. Mark was the recipient of the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1984, and earned the Hart Trophy twice in 1990 and 1992.

In his retirement, Mark Messier holds the record for most NHL regular season and playoff season games played, having played for twenty-five NHL seasons. Today he is also active in a variety of philanthropic endeavors, including serving on the board for the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund. Most recently, Mark Messier was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2010, he coached the Canadian national team for two European tournaments, and he recently began a run as an on-screen analyst for network such as NHL on Versus.