David Ling
David Ling ( born January 9, 1975 in Halifax, Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since July 2012 when the Nottingham Panthers in the Elite Ice Hockey League contract.
Career
David Ling began his career as a hockey player with the Kingston Frontenacs for which, by 1995, he was active from 1992 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League. The Frontenacs he could convince especially in its last season, when he scored a total of 68 games 68 goals and gave 82 templates. He was then chosen in both the All-Star team of the OHL, and the Canadian Hockey League. In addition, he received the Red Tilson Trophy as the OHL 's best player, the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the top scoring right winger of the OHL and was named the CHL Player of the Year. Already in 1993 NHL Entry Draft, the attacker had been selected by the Nordiques de Québec in the seventh round as a total 179 players for whom, however, he never played.
From 1995 to 1998 Ling was in the American Hockey League with the Saint John Flames and Fredericton Canadiens under contract, but also came between 1996 and 1998 to three inserts for the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League, where he point and impunity remained, and in the 1997/98 season to 17 inserts in the International Hockey League for the Indianapolis Ice. In the IHL he went from 1998 until the dissolution of the League in 2001 for the Kansas City Blades and Utah Grizzlies for points. He then signed a contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL, for which he in the following three seasons in the NHL regularly used while in parallel for their farm team, which played Syracuse Crunch in the AHL.
After Ling had bypassed the lockout in the NHL during the 2004/05 season with the St. John 's Maple Leafs, he first went to Europe, where he worked for the city neighbors HK Spartak Moscow and HK Dynamo Moscow aground ever a game while in the Russian Super League. The 2007/08 season he spent with the Toronto Marlies of the AHL before he was committed to following season by the Swiss NLA - Up EHC Biel. The season he finished, however, the Finnish capital Helsinki Jokerit club from the SM- liiga. From the season 2009/10 he stood at Amur Khabarovsk in the Kontinental Hockey League contract. For the Russians, he scored his first KHL game time in 46 games 32 points scorer, eight gates.
In November 2010 he returned to North America and played until end of season for the Providence Bruins. The 2011/12 season spent at the Canadian HC Val Pusteria in the Italian Serie A1, with whom he reached the playoff final series against the HC Bolzano. Ling finished the season as the second best scorer of the main round with 66 points in 35 games, only Kevin DeVergilio from SG Pontebba was successful. In July 2012, the right-handed shooter signed a contract with the Nottingham Panthers of the Elite Ice Hockey League.
Awards and achievements
Statistics
(End of season 2009/10)