Allan Rourke

Allan Rourke ( born March 6, 1980 in Mississauga, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who stood between 2009 and 2010 at the Krefeld Penguins of the German Ice Hockey League contract. During his career he was active among others for the Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League.

Career

Rourke began his career in 1996 in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL Kitchener Rangers at the with which he was already in his first season, the Central Division, and thus the Emms Trophy win could. After the defender was able to convince in the following season, and achieving in the 54 games he graduated, 24 scorer points, some talent scouts from the NHL took notice of the then 18 -year-olds. Finally, during the NHL Entry Draft in 1998, it was the leaders of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who selected the Canadians in the sixth round of a total of 154 positions. In the following two years, Rourke was able to increase his points haul again. His last season with the Rangers was also his best, so the links Sagittarius arrived in 72 games for use, scoring 80 points, with which he was one of the Topscorern the team.

For 2000/ 01 the defender joined the National Hockey Leaguezu the Toronto Maple Leafs, which it initially but, submitting to her at that time the farm team, the St. John 's Maple Leafs. In the three years that he was in Toronto under contract, Rourke but never got the chance to prove himself in the NHL and played exclusively in the American Hockey League for the St. John 's Maple Leafs. In the summer of 2003, the Canadians joined as a free agent the Carolina Hurricanes, where he finally completed his first 25 NHL games, most of the time, however, was used in the AHL Lowell Lock Monsters in the. The Monsters of the defenders came on 116 missions, in which he scored 33 points scorer. After the contract of left-handed shooters expired at the end of the season 2004/ 05 and was not renewed, Rourke moved to league rivals New York Islanders.

As with the Hurricanes, the Canadians came mainly in the farm team of the Islanders in the American Hockey League, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, used and he carried only 17 times the jersey of Frabchise from New York. After a further one-year spell at the Edmonton Oilers during the 2007/ 08 season the defender signed for season 2008/ 09 a one-year contract with ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. End of January 2009, he left the Ingolstadt already again, to join the Austrian first division club EHC Linz. In the fourth play-off quarter-final match against SV Villach to Rourke suffered a torn ligament in the knee. In the 2009/10 season Rourke playing for the Krefeld Penguins in the DEL, where he had received a one-year contract.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2008/ 09)