Boyd Kane

Boyd Kane ( born April 18, 1978 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is under contract with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the Kontinental Hockey League since July 2013.

Career

Boyd Kane began his career with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League, for whom he played a total of four years from 1994 to 1998. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1996, he was selected in the third round than a total of 72 players from the Pittsburgh Penguins, but he never received a contract with the Penguins, so he was available again in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998. This time he was elected the New York Rangers in the fourth round as a total 114 players. While Kane was from 1998 to 2002 at Rangers under contract, but he never played for them in the NHL. Instead, he ran for the Rangers farm team Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League, the Charlotte Checkers on from the East Coast Hockey League, and the BC Icemen of the United Hockey League.

On October 10, 2002 Kane has been delivered to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Gordie Dwyer, but he played exclusively for the Springfield Falcons in the AHL. After a year without insert for Tampa NHL team the attacker received on 14 July 2003 as a free agent contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. Although he played in the 2003/04 season once again almost exclusively in the AHL, where he. In 73 games for the farm team of the Flyers, which was Philadelphia Phantoms on the ice In addition, he also made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in which he - without getting to a point - played seven times for the Flyers.

After he won in the 2004/05 season during the lockout in the NHL with the Philadelphia Phantoms Calder Cup, Kane went on 12 August 2005 as a free agent with the Washington Capitals. With their farm team, the Hershey Bears, he again succeeded in the 2005/06 season winning the Calder Cup. He also played five times for the Capitals, scoring his first point, an assist, in the NHL. On 13 July 2006 Kane returned as a free agent to his former club Philadelphia Flyers. Between 2006 and 2009 he played a few games for the Flyers, but was mostly in the AHL farm team, the Philadelphia Phantoms, are used.

In July 2009 he returned to the organization of the Washington Capitals and played in the next four years playing for the Hershey Bears in the AHL. In July 2013 Kane has been committed by the KHL rookie KHL Medveščak Zagreb.

Awards and achievements

• 2005 Calder Cup win with the Philadelphia Phantoms
• 2006 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 2010 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 2012 AHL All- Star Classic

Statistics

(End of season 2008/ 09)