Brett Carson

Brett Carson (2013 )

Brett Carson ( born November 29, 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays for AIK Stockholm in the Svenska Hockey ligands on the position of the defender since September 2013.

Career

Brett Carson began his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League in which he was active until 2006 from 2001 for the Moose Jaw Warriors and Calgary Hitmen. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the fourth round as a total 109 players from the Carolina Hurricanes.

After the defender from 2006 to 2008 already for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Albany River Rats, had played, he gave on December 7, 2008 game against the Washington Capitals made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League for the Carolina Hurricanes. In his rookie year, the Canadians played four more games for Carolina, where he remained no points. The rest of the season he spent again at the River Rats in the AHL.

The 2009/10 season, he started at the River Rats in the AHL before he was called after 14 games in the NHL squad the Hurricanes and won a regular place in the defense during the season. The 2010/11 season he joined the Carolina Hurricanes in the NHL, but after seven games, he was sent to the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL. End of February 2011, he was placed just before the trade deadline of the Hurricanes on the Waiverliste, from the Calgary Flames chose him.

Awards and achievements

• 2004 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2006 WHL East First All- Star Team

Statistics

(End of season 2012/ 13)