Kurtis McLean

Kurtis McLean ( born November 2, 1980 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since June 2013 at the Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.

Career

McLean was initially for the Durham Huskies in a local Canadian junior league active before it ran aground in 1999 in the jersey of the Trenton Sting of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. Following this time the Canadians studied from 2001 to 2005 at the Norwich University and went for the ice hockey team in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association on the ice. McLean, who was never drafted, was taken on 29 September 2005 as a free agent by the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League contract. The following two seasons played center forward in both the Dress the Baby Pens as well as in some parts of their farm team, the Wheeling Nailers, from the ECHL. In the course of his involvement in Wilkes -Barre of Canadians of their partner team, the Pittsburgh Penguins was with gaming operations in the National Hockey League, committed. For this the right shooter but never completed an NHL game.

After spending the 2007/08 season exclusively in the American Hockey League, followed in July 2008, the contract was signed with the New York Islanders. In the following season McLean was again primarily in the AHL - now wearing the jersey of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers - active, but also played four NHL games for the Islanders, in which the attacker managed a score. After only one season, a commitment to Lukko Rauma followed in the Finnish SM- liiga, where McLean was voted the best foreigners in the league. After two years of activity, he signed a working paper at the SCL Tigers of the National League A. The Center excelled in his first season in Langnau, in a storm formation with Lukas Haas and Simon Moser, best scorer was (47 points), the most successful players on the powerplay ( 12 points), shot the most shorthanded goals ( 3), had the best plus-minus balance sheet ( 11) and won the most bullys (54 percent).

In June 2013 he was taken from Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League contract.