Chris Kontos
Christopher account ( born December 10, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1980 to 1998 among others for the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings and Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League as well as the Revierlöwen Oberhausen played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career
Chris began his career as an account Hockey players in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Sudbury Wolves and Toronto Marlboros 1980-1982. In 1982 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the first round as the 15th overall player of the New York Rangers. After he started the 1982/83 season with the Toronto Marlboros in the OHL, he gave in the course of the season his debut for the New York Rangers in the NHL. From 1983 to 1985 he was parallel for the New York Rangers in the NHL and the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League and the New Haven Nighthawks of the American Hockey League on the ice. The 1985/86 season began the winger at Ilves Tampere in the Finnish SM- liiga and finished it in the AHL with the New Haven Nighthawks.
The 1986/87 season he began again with the New Haven Nighthawks in the AHL and finished it at the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL. During the following season he played for Pittsburgh in the NHL and the Mukskegon Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League. In February 1988, he was discharged from Pittsburgh in the NHL in the Los Angeles Kings, where he played until the end of season as well as for their AHL farm team New Haven Nighthawks. The majority of the 1988/89 season when Canadians spent the EHC Kloten in the Swiss National League A. At the end of the season in Switzerland, he returned for the playoffs to the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL. In the 1989/90 season he joined again for Los Angeles in the NHL, but could there not fully enforce, so he spent most of the season with their AHL farm team New Haven Nighthawks.
In the 1990/91 season for the Phoenix Roadrunners account in the IHL was on the ice. For the following season, he was the HC Courmaosta from the series A2, the second Italian league, obliged. In the 1992/93 season he scored for the newly formed NHL team Tampa Bay Lightning in 66 games 27 goals and 24 templates. In the 1993/94 season he set out with the professional hockey and argued instead with Team Canada at the Olympics in preparation. For the 1994/95 season the longtime NHL player remained in Europe and played for Skellefteå AIK in Sweden in the then still second-class Division 1 From 1995 to 1997 he played in the IHL for the Cincinnati Cyclones, Rafales de Québec and Manitoba Moose. Most recently, he played in the 1997/98 season for the Revierlöwen Oberhausen in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For the Oberhausen he scored in 26 DEL games ten goals and four assists. He then finished his career at the age of 34 years.
Internationally
For Canada took account of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer part where he won the silver medal with his team.