| Jeff Ware | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 28, 1982 Toronto, ON, CAN |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg; 15 st 10 lb) |
| Position | Defence |
| Shot | Left |
| Played for | AHL St. John's Maple Leafs Beast of New Haven Louisville Panthers Syracuse Crunch NHL Toronto Maple Leafs Florida Panthers |
| NHL Draft | 15th overall, 2001 Toronto Maple Leafs |
| Playing career | 2001–2002 |
Jeff Ware (born April,28 1982 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former National Hockey League defenceman who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers. Ware played his 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
He was drafted in the first round, 15th overall, in 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 5 knee surgeries, and went on to earn his BA from the University of Toronto and MBA from Columbia Business School in New York City.
Ware attended high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario and Henry Street High School in Whitby, Ontario.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Preceded by Landon Wilson |
Toronto Maple Leafs first round draft pick 1995 |
Succeeded by Nik Antropov |