Michael Vernace
Michael " Mike" Vernace ( born May 26, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player Italo- standing since August 2013 in the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga under contract.
Career
Michael Vernace began his career as a hockey player with the Brampton Battalion for which, by 2006, he was active from 2003 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round in 2004 when a total of 201 players from the San Jose Sharks, for which, however, he never played because he on 1 June 2006 in exchange for a sixth- round vote NHL Entry Draft was submitted to the Colorado Avalanche in 2007. In the season 2006/ 07 the defender stood for the former farm team of the avalanche that. Arizona Sundogs of the Central Hockey League and Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League on the ice He subsequently played in the next two years mainly for Colorado's new AHL farm team, the Lake Erie Monsters. In addition, his debut in the National Hockey League for the team from Denver, for which it remained no points in twelve games in his rookie year of the links Sagittarius was in the 2008 /09 season.
After his contract was not renewed, signed Vernace on 30 July 2009 a one-year contract with the Atlanta Thrashers. He began the 2009/10 season in the farm team for the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League and came there in the course of the season regularly used. In the same season Vernace also went for the Hamilton Bulldogs on the ice before he was released in June 2010 in a transfer business to the San Jose Sharks. After him, this had not been contracted Vernace signed about a month later a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In December 2011, the Bolts him transferred together with James Wright in exchange for Mike Kostka and Evan Oberg to the Florida Panthers. This gave him just before the trade deadline, 25 February 2012, together with a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Wojtek Wolski in 2013 to the New York Rangers from. There, however, Vernace came only at Connecticut Whale, the farm team of the Rangers used. After another season in Hartford, home of the Whale, he changed to the Adler Mannheim, where he will be active in the German Ice Hockey League, his first stop outside of North America.
Awards and achievements
- 2005 OHL First All - Rookie Team
- 2006 OHL Third All-Star Team
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )