Brad Winchester
Brad Winchester (left ), 2011
Brad Winchester ( born March 1, 1981 in Madison, Wisconsin ) is an American professional ice hockey player who played for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.
Career
Winchester is considered to be robust, strong player and power forward. Winchester spent two years in special hockey development program of the American Hockey Association. After two seasons in the promotion program, he moved to his home university, the University of Wisconsin -Madison in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There he played for four years. In the NHL Entry Draft 2000 Winchester was drafted 35th by the Edmonton Oilers.
His professional hockey career began in the American Hockey League farm team of the Oilers, the Toronto Roadrunners, in the season 2003/04. During the NHL lockout in the 2004/05 season he stayed with the team withdrawing after Emdonton. In the season 2005/ 06 he finally made his debut in the NHL, where he remained in 19 games without a goal and changed several times during the season between the Hamilton Bulldogs and the Edmonton Oilers back and forth. In his playoff debut in the second game of the Western Conference quarter-final in the same season, he met surprising to score the winner. While the Oilers to the Stanley Cup Finals against the Carolina Hurricanes moved in and had to admit defeat there after seven games, Winchester was mostly only as a replacement in the squad and brought it to ten games.
After another season in the squad, the Oilers made him in the summer of 2007, no new contract offer, which made him a free agent after the contract rules the NHL. He then signed a contract with the Dallas Stars. A year later, followed by an engagement with the St. Louis Blues and Winchester was placed in the following three seasons as a regular player before he was discharged in a transfer business to the Anaheim Ducks end of February 2011. End of the season 2010/11 Californians not extended his expiring contract, so Winchester to Free Agent. After the training camps of the teams in early October took him to San Jose Sharks for a year under contract.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 1999
- U20 Junior World Championship 2000
( 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 )