Brett Hauer
Brett Hauer ( born July 11, 1971 in Richfield, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who was active during his active career, among other things, for the Edmonton Oilers and Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League.
Career
Hauer began his career in 1987 at the Richfield Spartans, a team of Richfield High School in his hometown of Richfield. After spending two years there, he went to the University of Minnesota Duluth and went for their hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association on the ice.
NHL Entry Draft 1989, he was selected in the fourth round at a total of 71 position of the Vancouver Canucks, but never played for the Canadian franchise. After he had been taken by any franchise under contract, Hauer signed on 15 February 1994 as a free agent in Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League, for in 22 games, he went up to the end of the season on the ice while collecting seven points scorer. Subsequently, he was in the 1994/95 season active for the Swedish club AIK Solna and returned in August 1995 back to North America when he was transferred to an exchange transaction to the Edmonton Oilers. In the season 1995/96 Hauer made his debut in the National Hockey League and completed to the end of the season a total of 29 NHL games in which get four goals and two assists him. In the same season he also played 17 games for their farm team, the Cape Breton Oilers in the American Hockey League and could can be credited eight points.
After Hauer had spent the subsequent season exclusively for the Chicago Wolves, his contract with the Edmonton Oilers was not renewed. Then the defensive player signed on 15 September 1997 at the Manitoba Moose and stood in the following four seasons almost exclusively with the Moose in use. On 8 July 2001, Hauer joined, again as a free agent, the Los Angeles Kings. However, the defender played a match for the Kings in the NHL and became their farm team, the Manchester Monarchs, sent to the AHL. After 29 games for the Monarchs, with a yield of 13 points, took place on 19 December 2001 an exchange transaction between the Los Angeles Kings and the Nashville Predators. As a result, Hauer was issued to Nashville and transferred in return Rich Brennan to the Kings.
After three NHL games for the Predators in the 2001/ 02 season, the defensive player went to end of season for the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL on the ice and posted in 48 games a total of 27 points. After his contract was not renewed at the Predators, he went to Switzerland and signed on 11 July 2002 as a free agent with the HC Servette Genève. At the Geneva Association Hauer counted in the next two years to the permanent staff and qualified with the team twice for the play-offs. The team in the quarter-final and semi-final was eliminated by the SC Bern of the tournament. For the season 2004 /05 he left the club and joined the EV train at. Hauer graduated course of the season a total of 30 games for the EV train, scoring 18 points scorer. In his only use during the play-offs the defender immediately scored a hit, the team retired in the semifinals against the ZSC Lions from the tournament.
For the following season, he went for the HC Davos on the ice and recorded in 56 NLA games a total of 47 points. With the HC Davos, he participated in several part of the Spengler Cup and won this in 2004 and 2006. After Hauer had spent the 2006/07 season with the Russian club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the Americans returned to the next season again back to Switzerland.
He signed, again as a free agent, the EHC Basel and rated among the Baslern to the regulars. Although he completed 55 games and had 29 points scored, the EHC Basel rose after the lost play- outs against EHC Biel in the National League B from. Then the defensive player ended his active career.
Internationally
Hauer participated in the World Championships in 1993, 1995, 2003, 2004 and 2005 with Team USA. His greatest success was about winning the bronze medal at the World Cup 2004.
He also played with Team USA Winter Olympic Games in 1994 and finished with the team to eighth place.
Awards and achievements
- 2000 Larry D. Gordon Trophy
- 2001 IHL First All -Star Team
- 2001 Larry D. Gordon Trophy
- 2004 bronze medal at the World Championships