Alan Letang

Alan Letang ( born September 4, 1975 in Renfrew, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since 2009 KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the Austrian Hockey League contract.

Career

Alan Letang began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Cornwall Royals, Newmarket Royals and Sarnia Sting from 1991 to 1995. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the eighth round when a total 203 players from the Montreal Canadiens, for whom he never played, however. Instead, the defenders ran from 1995 to 1997 for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Fredericton Canadiens, on. He then went for the first time to Europe, where he stood in the 1997/98 season with the Kaufbeurer eagles and the Augsburger Panther in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, as well as the SC Langnau in the Swiss National League B under contract.

In the summer of 1998, Letang returned to North America, where he spent the next two seasons with the Michigan K- Wings of the International Hockey League, where he finished the 1998/99 season when EV train in the Swiss National League A. In the following season the links Sagittarius came to his debut in the National Hockey League for the Dallas Stars, who had signed him on 22 March 1999 as a free agent.

During the 2000/ 01 season the Canadians played for the Utah Grizzlies in the IHL. After a year at the Calgary Flames in the NHL and their AHL farm team Saint John Flames, he spent two years playing for the New York Islanders in the NHL, as well as their farm team from the AHL, Bridgeport Sound Tigers active. In the NHL, however, he never was able to prevail, so that he was no points in 14 games.

On May 27, 2004 Letang, who was vertragslos at this time, was obliged by the Hamburg Freezers of the DEL in which he returned after six years. For the North Germans, he played a total of three years before he spent the 2007/08 season in their league rivals Sinupret Ice Tigers. For the 2008/09 season the Canadians moved to HC Innsbruck in the Austrian Hockey League. When he retired at the end of the season for financial reasons from the league, he joined the Croatian club KHL Medveščak Zagreb, who took the place of Innsbruck in the top division in Austria.

Statistics

(End of season 2008/ 09)