Alyn McCauley
Alyn McCauley D. (* May 29, 1977 in Brockville, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and currently works as an assistant coach with the hockey team from Queen's University.
Career
Alyn McCauley started his career in 1993 in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL with the Ottawa 67 's. After two years in which he showed his skills to some extent, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 by the New Jersey Devils in the fourth round at position 79. Only after that he developed in the OHL into an elite player. In the 1995/96 season he scored for Ottawa 82 points in 55 games and in the following year, 56 goals and 56 assists, which is why he won in two seasons for the MVP of the OHL. He received an even greater honor in 1997 by the federation of the three major Canadian junior leagues CHL, which distinguished him as the best player of the year. During his time in Ottawa, he also played in 1996 and 1997 for the U20 selection of Team Canada at the World Junior Championships and won the gold medal both times.
In the summer of 1997, he moved to the pros in the NHL, but not to the New Jersey Devils, who handed the rights to him in a transfer business at the beginning of the year to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In Toronto, he was immediately in the NHL on the ice. Since he had to concentrate more on the defensive, he could only reach six score and ten assists. In the 1998/99 season he has been improved and scored 24 points in 39 games. However, he retired to several injuries and a severe concussion, which he had contracted calculated in a game against the New Jersey Devils, made him not only out of action for a long time, but also the continuation of his career was in jeopardy.
1999/2000 he played 45 times for Toronto, but his game had deteriorated, due to the severe head injury. He tried to sit in the summer 2000 aussreichend to recover and once again felt physically strong enough for the NHL, but the beginning of the season 2000/ 01 he found only in farm team in the AHL again. 2001/ 02 he returned to the NHL and stood out in the playoffs, when he scored 15 points in 20 games and the team penetrated to the finals of the Eastern Conference.
During the 2002/ 03 season he was transferred to the San Jose Sharks. 2003/ 04 he had his best season when he reached 20 goals and 27 assists. He also wore for ten games, the " C" as the team captain of the Sharks. During the lockout and the failure of the NHL season 2004/ 05 McCauley studied for a year at the Athabasca University, but then returned to the San Jose Sharks, before he left the team as unrestricted free agent.
In summer 2006, he signed a contract with the Los Angeles Kings. Due to injuries, he only came to ten inserts in the 2006/07 season and his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2007. McCauley announced that he would be late returning to the ice again for the 2007 /08 season, because he wanted to fully recovering from his injury.
When he was still not in the summer of 2008 to be able to return to active sport of ice hockey, he joined the hockey team at Queen's University as an assistant coach.
Alyn McCauley did not make it as a professional hockey player heranzureichen of his achievements, from his time with the juniors, as he received several awards. However, it has established itself as a good two-way forward, who works alongside offensive actions also much on the defensive, and received a 2004 nomination for the Selke Trophy Frank J. for the best defensive forward in the NHL.