Playing career

Rhodes was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. While attending Richfield Senior High School, he played goaltender for the high school varsity team, Richfield Spartans, during his Junior and Senior years. In his Junior year, he and fellow goal tender Jon Lee shared goaltending on the team. One of the highlights of that year was an upset win against Richfield's arch-rival, the Edina Hornets. The Edina Hornets that year had only lost a single game during the regular season and had beaten Richfield twice. In the Section 6 quarter final game against Edina, Rhodes stopped 36 of 39 shots on goal and Richfield had won the upset game 4-3. In the following Section 6 final game against the Minnetonka Skippers, Rhodes only allowed a single goal in a 2-1 victory and gave the Richfield Spartans a berth in the Minnesota State High School Hockey Championship.

Rhodes was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 6th round of the 1987 Entry Draft, 112th overall. Rhodes represented the United States at the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He played one game in the 1991-92 season, then served as backup from the 1993-94 season to 1995-96 before being traded in a three-way deal that sent Kirk Muller to the Maple Leafs, Martin Straka and Bryan Berard to the New York Islanders and Wade Redden along with Rhodes to the Ottawa Senators on January 23, 1996.

Rhodes is also one of only eleven goaltenders to score a goal (Martin Brodeur has scored three goals, and Ron Hextall has scored two goals, each with one in the playoffs), managing the task without taking a shot. Rhodes was the last player to touch the puck on a delayed penalty call when Lyle Odelein of the New Jersey Devils inadvertently put the puck in his own goal with Martin Brodeur out of the net for an extra attacker in Ottawa's 6-0 victory on January 2, 1999.

From 1996 to 1999, Rhodes split the goaltending duties with Ron Tugnutt. Tugnutt rose as the starter and therefore Ottawa traded Rhodes on June 18, 1999 in the offseason, to the Atlanta Thrashers for future considerations. He played his last game in the NHL for Atlanta in the 2001-02 season. Because of the depth of goalies in the Atlanta system, Rhodes was sent to Greenville, South Carolina to play for the Greenville Grrrowl of the ECHL. He would play 12 games for Greenville that season, going 2-8-2 and earning 1 shutout.

Personal life

In 2005, Rhodes married TV host Amanda Jahn. They have two children and reside in Cleveland, Ohio.

Career statistics

Regular season

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV%
1990-91	Newmarket Saints	AHL		38	8	24	3	2154	144	1	4.01	—
1990-91	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		1	1	0	0	60	1	0	1.00	.962
1991-92	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		43	20	16	5	2454	148	0	3.62	—
1992-93	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		52	27	16	8	3074	184	1	3.59	—
1993-94	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		22	9	7	3	1213	53	0	2.62	.902
1994-95	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		13	6	6	1	760	34	0	2.68	.916
1995-96	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		11	4	5	1	624	29	0	2.79	.904
1995-96	Ottawa Senators	NHL		36	10	22	4	2123	98	2	2.77	.906
1996-97	Ottawa Senators	NHL		50	14	20	14	2934	133	1	2.72	.890
1997-98	Ottawa Senators	NHL		50	19	19	7	2743	107	5	2.34	.907
1998-99	Ottawa Senators	NHL		45	22	13	7	2480	101	3	2.44	.905
1999-00	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		28	5	19	3	1561	101	1	3.88	.874
2000-01	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		38	7	19	7	2072	116	0	3.36	.897
2001-02	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		15	2	10	1	769	47	0	3.67	.893
2002-03	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		7	1	4	0	379	26	0	4.12	.869
2002-03	Greenville Grrrowl	ECHL		12	2	8	2	687	43	1	3.76	.891
NHL Totals				309	99	140	48	17,339	820	12	2.84	.899
AHL Totals				147	57	64	16	8,440	528	2	3.75	.869
ECHL Totals				12	2	8	2	687	43	1	3.76	.891

Playoffs

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV%
1991-92	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		6	4	1	331	16	0	2.90	—
1992-93	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		9	4	5	538	37	0	4.13	—
1993-94	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		1	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	—
1997-98	Ottawa Senators	NHL		10	5	5	590	21	0	2.14	.911
1998-99	Ottawa Senators	NHL		2	0	2	150	6	0	2.40	.908
2002-03	Greenville Grrrowl	ECHL		1	0	1	60	6	0	6.00	.875
NHL Totals				13	5	7	741	27	0	2.19	.910
AHL Totals				15	8	6	869	53	0	3.66	—
ECHL Totals				1	0	1	60	6	0	6.00	.875

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