Deron Quint
Deron Timothy Quint ( born March 12, 1976 in Durham, New Hampshire) is a professional American ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Spartak Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League since May 2013.
Playing career
The 1.88 m tall defender started his career with the Seattle Thunderbirds in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL before being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 as 30th in the second round by the Winnipeg Jets ( drafted ) was.
Even in his rookie season in the NHL played the links Sagittarius in 51 games for the Jets, thereby pass him five goals and 13 assists, although he did not have the reputation of an offensive defender before the season. He succeeded in 1931 by the even Nels Stewart ( Montreal Maroons ) record set of two gates set within four seconds. Even after the relocation of its franchises to Phoenix and the resulting renamed Phoenix Coyotes belonged to the fifth NHL squad until he was transferred Devils in exchange for Lyle Odelein to New Jersey on March 7, 2000. Already on 23 June of the same year followed by the third NHL Quint station, where he remained until the end of the 2001/02 season with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
For a season Quint returned to the Coyotes back, his date last engagement in the NHL ended in 2004 for the Chicago Black Hawks during the lockout of 2004/ 05 he played for HC Bolzano in Serie A after 16 games in the National League A in the Kloten Flyers of the Americans finally joined during the 2005/ 06 season to Berlin.
With the polar bears Deron Quint was in his first DEL season German champion, after the end of the regular season 2006/ 07 he was 46 points behind Jame Pollock ( Sinupret Ice Tigers ) and Stephane Julien ( Kölner Haie ) third-best scorer among the DEL - defenders. After the playoff elimination of polar bears in the season 2006/ 07 Quint was loaned Islanders for the last five regular-season games to the New York. Already in the following season the defender ran back on but for the polar bears.
Despite a contract until 2010, he moved to the 2008/ 09 season in the Continental Hockey League to Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. In 2010 he was obliged Traktor Chelyabinsk from league rivals HK and was in the 2010/11 season with 21 goals the most prolific defender of the KHL. During the 2012/13 season, he was invited to the KHL All-Star Game.
Since May 2013 Quint stands at HK Spartak Moscow under contract.
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 )