Drew Bannister
Drew Bannister ( born April 9, 1974 in Belleville, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who during his active career, among other things, for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League has played.
Career
His career began in Drew Bannister 1990 in Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, for whom he played in the Ontario Hockey League until 1994. The following two seasons spent the defender in Atlanta Knights of the International Hockey League until he finally received first inserts the cooperation partner Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League and finally stopped completely in the highest North American professional league. During the 1996/97 season the Canadians moved to the Edmonton Oilers, which he then left in the direction of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the course of next season.
In the game year 1998/99 Bannister denied first 21 NHL games for his former employer from Tampa, before he is for the rest of the season in the IHL with the Las Vegas Thunder. The next two seasons ran on the defender for the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League, until he again played three games in 2001 for the New York Rangers in the NHL. After graduating at the beginning of the season 2001 / 02 30 games in North America for the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, plus a game for the "Mighty Ducks " from Anaheim, Drew Bannister moved for two seasons in the Finnish SM- liiga. There the Canadians played for Kärpät Oulu, with whom he was Finnish runner-up in the 2002/03 season. After this success, he moved to the Espoo Blues, with whom, however, he resigned in the following play-offs in the first round.
After Germany Drew Bannister came to the 2004/05 season, played one year for the Nuremberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For the following season the defender joined the Kassel Huskies. With the Huskies, he played 2005/ 06 still in the DEL, but increased at the end of the season in the 2nd Bundesliga from. On 25 April 2008 Drew Bannister scored in the 74th minute of extra time the final fifth game of the second division play-offs the decisive goal for sporting comeback in the German Hockey League. In addition, the Canadian was named this season for the best defenders in the league.
Bannister's contract with the Huskies was valid until the end of the DEL Season 2008/ 09 and was not renewed. Then he committed in August 2009, the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League by a one-year two-way contract. The defender was the entire 2009/10 season with the Binghamton Senators of the AHL on the ice before Bannister was committed in November 2010 by the Hull Stingrays of the Elite Ice Hockey League. In this he was mainly active as a player, but also assumed the duties of assistant coach and player-coach Sylvain Cloutier supported. Furthermore, Bannister was an assistant captain of the Stingrays. In July 2011, the defender took a transfer within the EIHL and joined as player-coach the Braehead Clan on. After the end of the 2011 /12 Canadian defender ended his playing career and was engaged by the Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League as an assistant coach at the port.
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 )