| Intro | Canadian ice hockey player | ||
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Athlete Ice hockey player |
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| From | Canada | ||
| Type | Sports | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 19 May 1977, Toronto, Canada | ||
| Age: | 43 years | ||
| Star sign | Taurus | ||
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Jeff Ware (born May 19, 1977) is a Canadian former National Hockey League (NHL) defenceman who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers. He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round (15th overall) of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.
Biography
As a youth, Ware played in the 1991 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Marlboros minor ice hockey team. Ware attended high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario and Henry Street High School in Whitby, Ontario.
Ware played major junior hockey for the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, where he won the league championship in 1997. During his junior career, he also won a gold medal with Team Canada at the World Juniors hockey tournament in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Ware in the first round, 15th overall, at the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. Ware played 21 career games in the NHL, tallying one assist and twelve penalty minutes.
He retired from hockey in 2002 following five knee surgeries, and went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York City.
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1994–95 | Oshawa Generals | OHL | 55 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 86 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 1995–96 | Oshawa Generals | OHL | 62 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 128 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| 1995–96 | St. John’s Maple Leafs | AHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1996–97 | Oshawa Generals | OHL | 24 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 38 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 34 | ||
| 1996–97 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997–98 | St. John’s Maple Leafs | AHL | 67 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 182 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 1997–98 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | St. John’s Maple Leafs | AHL | 55 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 130 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Beast of New Haven | AHL | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1999–00 | Louisville Panthers | AHL | 51 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 128 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 2000–01 | Syracuse Crunch | AHL | 71 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 174 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||
| 2001–02 | Syracuse Crunch | AHL | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NHL totals | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||