Dan Spang
Dan Spang ( born August 16, 1983 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is an Italian- American hockey player at the position of the defender.
Career
Spang played during his high school years between 2000 and 2002 for the team of his school in Winchester. Due to a severe concussion that he suffered in a car accident in October 2001, its operations limited in his final year to just six games in which he collected as a defender but 17 points. Nevertheless chose the San Jose Sharks the then 18 -year-old in the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 in the second round by 52 point. First Spang moved, however, to college and played between 2002 and 2006 in the Hockey East the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the Boston University. There he rose in the four seasons from year to year its yield point and was taken after completion of the NCAA Season 2005/ 06 on April 4, 2006 by San Jose under contract.
The Sharks sent the Americans initially to the Cleveland Barons in the American Hockey League, where he played the last eight games of the season at that Farm Team San Jose. After moving the Barons to Worcester in the summer of 2006 Spang ran from the season 2006/ 07 for Worcester Sharks. A shoulder injury and another concussion, which meant that he had to finish the season in March, were the reason that Spang could deny only 48 games in his first full AHL season. At the start of the 2007/08 season he returned to the levy of the Worcester Sharks and he spent the entire season. However, since his contract expired at the end of the season, he became a free agent in the organization of the Calgary Flames, where he. For their farm team, which played Quad City Flames in the AHL This transferred him in February 2009 from there to league rivals Syracuse Crunch, where Spang finished the season.
On 21 July 2009, the Nuremberg Ice Tigers editions of the German Ice Hockey League, the commitment by the American known, he signed a contract for the first time abroad. A year later, he returned to North America and was committed in October 2010 by the Texas Stars. In May 2011 he received a contract with the Elitserien - promoted Växjö Lakers hockey, but it was a month later committed by the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League for the 2011/12 season by two-way contract.
In the 2012/13 season he played for Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho in the SM- liiga and the HV71 in Elitserien.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Hockey East First All-Star Team
- 2006 NCAA East First All-American Team
- 2006 Hockey East - champion with the Boston University
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 )