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Dennis Kevin Bonvie (born July 23, 1973, in Antigonish, N.S.) is a Canadian ice hockey player who is currently a member of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League.

While Bonvie, a 5'11", 205-pound right winger, has appeared in 92 National Hockey League games with six different NHL teams since being turned pro in 1993 by the Edmonton Oilers, he has spent the vast majority of his career in the AHL in which he has played with eight different clubs. Although he has averaged a respectable 0.34 points/game in his AHL career (260 points on 80 goals and 180 assists through 2005-06), Bonvie is far better known for a physical style of play and his primary role as the enforcer for each of his various teams.

As a member of the Hamilton Bulldogs in 1996-97, Bonvie established a then single season AHL record for penalty minutes (PIM) with 522, a lofty mark that stood for eight seasons before finally being eclipsed in 2004-05 by Brian McGrattan of the Binghamton Senators with 551. (Bonvie was a mentor to McGrattan while they were teammates in Binghamton for parts of the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons.) Bonvie's eventual career AHL penalty minute total, however, is unlikely to ever be exceeded as he had already collected 4,104 minutes (in just 763 regular season games) through the end of the 2005-06 season -- a remarkable 1,164 more than now retired center Rob Murray's second overall career AHL record high total 2,940 PIM in 1,018 League games over fifteen seasons. As Bonvie has also amassed an additional 295 PIM in 93 AHL Calder Cup play-off games as well 311 PIM in his 92 NHL regular season contests for an overall combined total of 4,710 minutes, he has thus spent the equivalent of seventy-eight-and-a-half games in the penalty box -- or almost one full season -- during his now 13+ year pro hockey career.[1]

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