Brett Clark (ice hockey)

Brett Clark ( born December 23, 1976 in Wapella, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defender, who was most recently with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Brett Clark began his career in the 1994/95 season in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League with the Melville Millionaires. For the following season, he spent a year at the University of Maine, where he played for the university team in Hockey East, a league in the game operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Following the season, he was selected in the sixth round during the NHL Entry Draft in 1996 as a total of 154 players from the Montreal Canadiens.

After spending the 1996/97 season with the Canadian national team, Clark went into the 1997/98 season for the first time in professional hockey for the former farm team of Montreal, the Fredericton Canadiens of the American Hockey League, on ice. In the same season he made his debut in the National Hockey League for Montréal. The following year, the defender scored four points scorer in 61 NHL games, including two goals.

On 25 June 1999 Clark was taken via the expansion draft by the Atlanta Thrashers under contract. During his two and a half years in Atlanta its biggest success was winning the Turner Cup with Atlanta damaligem farm team, the Orlando Solar Bears of the International Hockey League. On 24 January 2002 Clark was issued by the Thrashers in exchange for Frédéric Cassivi to the Colorado Avalanche. In his first two years in Colorado Clark came exclusively for their at that time the AHL farm team, before it ran aground Hershey Bears used towards the end of the 2003/04 season in twelve games of the regular season for Avalanche in the NHL. During the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season Clark spent again the entire season with the Hershey Bears. Since resumption of gaming operations in the NHL in 2005, the Canadians played but exclusively in the NHL team Colorado.

In a total of six seasons and 381 games for the franchise from Denver defenders scored 32 goals and 134 points, his defense behavior was characterized by particularly high physical effort; in the 2008 /09 NHL season he blocked 238 shots, which were the second most league wide. In the following season was Brett Clark Team Intern in this category forward, his expiring contract was not renewed yet.

On 5 July 2010, the Canadians signed a two year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning. In January 2013 he joined first as a loose association actor the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League game for the Clark completed 18 games and 17 points scorer, including 16 Assists posted. In March 2013, the Canadians of the Minnesota Wild was signed, in which he acted mainly as a substitute.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2012/ 13)