Dale McTavish

Neil Bradley Dale McTavish ( born February 28, 1972 in Eganville, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since 2010 in Lappeenranta Jokerit in the Finnish SM- liiga under contract.

Career

Dale McTavish began his career as a hockey player with the Peterborough Petes, for which he was active from 1989 to 1993 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League. With his team he won in his last year in the 1992/93 season the J. Ross Robertson Cup, the champion of the OHL. He then attended two years, the Saint Francis Xavier University, for their hockey team he participated in parallel on the game operation of the University League Atlantic University Sport. In the 1995 season he was also on in six games for the New Jersey Rockin Rollers from the professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International. On 1 August 1996, the winger signed a contract as a free agent with the Calgary Flames, after he had already completed 19 games for their farm team in Saint John Flames of the American Hockey League in the 1995/96 season. The entire rest of the time he spent previously at the Canadian national team for which he played a total of 53 test matches. In the 1996/97 season the Canadians made ​​his debut for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League, scoring a goal and gave two assists. However, the majority of the playing time he graduated again in the AHL team in Saint John, for which he in 56 games 38 scorer points, including 16 goals scored.

For the 1997/98 season McTavish joined Jokerit of the Finnish SM- Lappeenranta from liiga. On the smaller rinks in Europe, he was able to convince at first and was in his first year in Finland, the Aarne - Honkavaara Trophy as top scorer in the SM- liiga. After another season with Jokerit, he moved to the 1999/2000 season to the league rivals Espoo Blues. Then he signed a contract with the Rapperswil -Jona Lakers of the Swiss National League A for Rapperswil -Jona, he played a total of five years, and he in the playoffs of the 2004/05 season also in four games for the HC Sierre in the National League B on the ice stood and thereby contributed a goal and six assists. From 2005 to 2007, the Canadians played for in the NLA for the ZSC Lions. He then moved to the league rivals EV train in which he point his best season completed, among other things in the 2007/ 08 season in Switzerland, after which he was elected to the All-Star team in the National League A.

For the 2010/11 season McTavish returned to Jokerit Lappeenranta back from the SM- liiga, scoring this season in 38 games 22 scorer points, including 16 goals.

Awards and achievements

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)