Charlie Cook (ice hockey)

Charlie Cook ( 2008)

Charlie Cook ( born October 22, 1982 in Port Huron, Michigan ) is an American professional ice hockey player who is since 2011 in the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga under contract.

Career

Charlie Cook began his career as a hockey player with the Soo Indians, for which he was active from 1999 to 2001 in the Junior League North American Hockey League. Then he attended from 2001 to 2005 Cornell University, for their hockey team he played in parallel in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In 2003 and 2005 he won the championship with the team in each of the College Football ECAC Hockey. Towards the end of the 2004/05 season the defender was for the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League debut in professional hockey. With the team he won in the playoffs right away the Calder Cup. After he spent the following season with the Phantoms, he played in the 2006/07 season for the league rivals Binghamton Senators.

The 2007/08 season began with HIFK Helsinki Cook in the Finnish SM- liiga. For the team, he scored two goals in 38 games and 13 assists, before he finished the season with the HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Extraliga. For the 2008/09 season he returned to the SM- liiga, where he received a contract with Tappara Tampere. He remained there, however, also only briefly before he for the league rivals Lukko Rauma was on the ice one and a half years. In the 2010/11 season he played for MODO Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien and subsequently used for the HC Davos and SCL Tigers in the Swiss National League A. For season 2011/12 the Americans was of the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Hockey League committed.

Awards and achievements

• 2003 ECAC Hockey Championship with Cornell University
• 2005 ECAC Hockey Championship with Cornell University
• 2005 Calder Cup win with the Philadelphia Phantoms

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)