Eric Fehr
Eric Fehr ( born September 7, 1985 in Winkler, Manitoba ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since January 2013 at the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
The 1.93 m wide winger began his career with the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League before he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 as 18th in the first round by the Washington Capitals. In the Wheat Kings jersey Fehr ran between 2000 and 2005 to 339 in games. In his last year in the league, he won the Bob Clarke Trophy as the next leading scorer, the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as the best player of the season. He then moved into the organization of capital.
First, the left gunner at the Hershey Bears, a farm team of Washington, in the American Hockey League was established. However, during the 2005/06 season, he completed his first eleven games in the National Hockey League. With the Bears Fehr won in his first season as a professional off the junior hockey to the Calder Cup, the championship of the American Hockey League. At the start of the following season, the Canadian was re-appointed in the cadre of capital, but then returned to the Hershey Bears. In his second appeal in January 2007, the attackers finally scored a 7:3 victory of his franchise against the Carolina Hurricanes his first NHL goal.
As of February 4, 2008 Eric Fehr was back to the NHL squad of the Washington Capitals after he had returned to the beginning of the season 2007/ 08 to the Hershey Bears. This transferred the right wingers 8 July 2011 in exchange for Danick Paquette and a fourth- round choice right in the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 to the Winnipeg Jets. He had graduated in the 2009/10 season, when he recorded 39 points scorer in 69 games his best to date game time.
Due to the NHL lockout Fehr changed from October 2012 to January 2013 for HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish SM- liiga, where he obtained 25 points scorer in 21 games. After the end of the lockout, he returned to the Washington Capitals and signed a one year contract there. Already almost four months later, he extended his contract by two years ahead of schedule.
Internationally
Fehr played with Team Canada Western - a selection of players from the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan - at the World U -17 Hockey Challenge, 2001 He ran in five games, prepared by one goal and received 20 penalty minutes. .
Awards and achievements
- 2003 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2005 WHL East First All-Star Team
- 2005 Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
- 2005 Bob Clarke Trophy
- 2005 CHL Second All-Star Team
- 2006 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2006 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World U -17 Hockey Challenge in 2001
( 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 )