Chris Schmidt (ice hockey)

Christopher Schmidt ( * March 1, 1976 in Beaverlodge, Alberta ) is a German - Canadian professional ice hockey player who was most recently at the Schwenningen Wild Wings from the 2nd hockey league under contract.

Career

Chris Schmidt began his career in 1992 in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL, where he spent four seasons with the Seattle Thunderbirds before 1996 his first professional contract signed and 18 games in the East Coast Hockey League for the Mississippi Sea Wolves and 37 games in the IHL completed for the Phoenix Roadrunners. Spent the following years the player was still used as a center forward mostly in the American Hockey League, where he. Fredericton for the Canadiens, the Springfield Falcons, the Lowell Lock Monsters and the Manchester Monarchs went on the ice In the season 1999/2000 Schmidt was also active for the team Canada. The NHL rights to him had already secured the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the fifth round at 111th position, so he also completed a total of ten missions in the National Hockey League in the 2002/03 season.

In 2005, Schmidt moved from North America to Germany for the DEG Metro Stars of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, but this he left already the following year to league rivals ERC Ingolstadt. There the Canadians was used mostly as a defender and was promoted in the play- offs in 2006/ 07 with a goal and five assists in six games to the point best players in the team. He subsequently joined the Iserlohn Roosters. Since the defender since 2007 has German citizenship with German ancestry, he was first nominated for the German national team after good performances in the 2007/ 08 season, with which he participated at the 2008 World Ice Hockey Championships in Canada. After the 2008/ 09 season, Schmidt left the Roosters because he had signed a contract with the Adler Mannheim.

For the 2010/11 season he signed a contract with the Kassel Huskies. After the team denied a license for the DEL and the club was disbanded then, Schmidt left the Huskies again and was out of work as a result. In November of the same year he was awarded a contract until the end of season with Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg. On 31 May 2011 he replaced the German vice-champion Wolfsburg to Schwenningen.

Awards and achievements

Career Stats

( 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 )