Clay Wilson

Clay Wilson ( born April 5, 1983 in Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota ) is an American professional ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Donbass Donetsk in the Kontinental Hockey League since 2012.

Career

Clay Wilson began his career as a hockey player at Michigan Tech, which he attended from 2001 to 2005, while he was active in parallel for their hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Towards the end of the 2004/05 season was the defender made ​​his debut in professional hockey when he ran aground on the Muskegon Fury in the United Hockey League. With the Fury, he won in the playoffs right away the Colonial Cup. The 2005/06 season he began again at the Muskegon Fury in the UHL, ended this but with the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League.

On 11 July 2006 Wilson signed a contract as a free agent with the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, came in the 2006/07 season but only for their AHL farm team Portland Pirates used. On 15 November 2007 he was transferred along with Aaron Rome in exchange for Geoff Platt in the NHL with the Columbus Blue Jackets. For the Blue Jackets, he was in the 2007/ 08 season, his NHL debut, but continued to play mostly in the AHL farm team for the Syracuse Crunch. In January 2009 he was released to the Atlanta Thrashers, for he 2008/ 09 in another two NHL games in service until the end of the season. The rest of the time he spent there in the AHL farm team for the Chicago Wolves. From 2009 to 2011, the Links shooter was a regular for the Rochester Americans in the AHL, for their cooperation partners Florida Panthers he occasionally ran aground in the NHL. In the season 2011/12 he received at the Calgary Flames in five NHL games use time. There he spent most of the season in the AHL farm team in the Abbotsford Heat.

For the season 2012/13 the Americans were obliged by HK Donbass Donetsk from the Kontinental Hockey League.

Internationally

For the U.S., Wilson took part in the World Cup 2011. During the tournament he prepared in seven games two goals vore.

Awards and achievements

  • 2005 Colonial Cup win with the Muskegon Fury
  • 2008 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2010 AHL Second All-Star Team
  • 2011 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2012 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2012 AHL Second All-Star Team

Statistics

(End of season 2011 /12)

2004–05 United Hockey League season 2005–06 AHL season 2006–07 AHL season Farmteam 2007–08 NHL season 2008–09 NHL season 2011–12 NHL season 2012–13 KHL season 2011 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2013–14 KHL season Michael Leighton Oleg Piganovich Tuomas Kiiskinen Teemu Laine Randy Robitaille Petteri Wirtanen Andrei Nazarov
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