Chris Holt (ice hockey)
Chris Holt ( born June 5, 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender, who was recently at the Donbass Donetsk HK in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
- 2.1 International
Career
Chris Holt began his career as a hockey player with the U.S. National Team Development Program, for which he was active in the 2002/03 season in the Junior League North American Hockey League. Then the goalkeeper visited two years, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and played for their hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. From 2005 to 2008 he was with the New York Rangers under contract, who had chosen him already in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 in the sixth round as the 180th overall player. For the Rangers, he played but only in the 2005/06 season one game in the National Hockey League, while he spent the rest of the time at their farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League and the Charlotte Checkers of the ECHL.
Between 2008 and 2010, Holt was at the NHL teams St. Louis Blues and Ottawa Senators under contract, but could not prevail with them and only played for St. Louis in the 2008 / 09 season, another game in the NHL. Mainly he came in this period for the Peoria Rivermen and Binghamton Senators in the AHL, as well as the Alaska Aces and Elmira Jackals in the ECHL for use. For the season 2010/11 the Americans were obliged Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League and completed two seasons at Dinamo.
As of end of June 2012 stood at Holt Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg under contract before he was released in January 2013 in exchange for a third-round option for the KHL Junior Draft 2014 HK Donbass Donetsk. In August 2013 Holt released his current contract with the HK Donbass to personal reasons. The HK Donbass undertook his place Michael Leighton.
Internationally
For the U.S., Holt took part in the U18 World Youth Championship in 2003. In this he was in two games between the posts and had a Gegentorschnitt of 2.00 at a catch rate of 93.9 % on.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 2003
( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )