Ed Courtenay
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Edward Emmett Courtenay ( born February 2, 1968 in Verdun, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian- British ice hockey player and coach. Most recently, he played with the Manchester Phoenix in British English Premier Ice Hockey League. In the National Hockey League, he was active for the San Jose Sharks.
Career
Courtenay played for four years in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Laval Titan and Granby Bisons. In his last season were his 114 points in 68 games crucial for the Walh the Second All-Star team in the league. Despite its good performance, the right winger was ungedraftet.
For the season 1988/89 Courtenay became a professional and played the following three years with the Kalamazoo Wings of the International Hockey League, the farm team of the Minnesota North Stars of the NHL. Taking the Plunge into an NHL squad managed the Canadians only for the season 1991/92 than in NHL Dispersal Draft in 1991, the players from the North Stars and the Sharks aufteilte, chose him the newly established San Jose Sharks. In the seasons 1991/92 and 1992/93 he played 44 NHL games, scoring 20 points. He also won in the 1991/92 season with the Kansas City Blades, the Sharks farm team, the Turner Cup, the championship of the IHL.
After Courtenay came in the 1993/94 season exclusively in the IHL for use, he also starred in the future only in the North American minor leagues before joining in the summer of 1997 to Europe in the British Ice Hockey Super League, where he until the end of the 2001/02 season with the Sheffield Steelers and Ayr Scottish Eagles made a name and was one of the best players in the island. From 2002 to 2005 Courtenay again returned to North America and stood there in the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League and ECHL on the ice. From the season 2005/ 06 until the end of the 2007/08 season he was player-coach of the Belfast Giants, belonging to the British Elite Ice Hockey League. This was followed by one year each engagements with the Newcastle Vipers and Manchester Phoenix, where Courtenay acted in the season 2009/10 also as assistant coach in Manchester. Then he ended his active career.