Graham Mink

Graham Mink ( born May 21, 1979 in Stowe, Vermont ) is an American professional ice hockey player. Since the 2013/14 season he plays for the EC Dornbirn in Austria's Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in the position of right winger.

Career

After Mink was in the 1997/98 season ended his last game of the year at Northfield Mount Hermon School, he joined in the summer of 1998 at the University of Vermont. There he ran between 1998 and 2001 in three seasons for the University of team in the ECAC Hockey the National Collegiate Athletic Association on. He was only able to impress in his last season there, in which he succeeded in 29 points in 32 games.

Since he had noticed any franchise in the National Hockey League by this time, he changed the game ungedraftet 2000 /01 to the professional, as the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League under his contract. Although he came in 56 AHL games for use, but had also in the East Coast Hockey League for the Richmond Renegades on the ice, who cooperated with the team the Pirates. Still, he impressed the scouts the Washington Capitals, who also worked with Portland, so that they are still furnished them it to the end of the season with an NHL contract. It was not until the end of the 2003/04 season, before Mink came to his first two NHL inserts. Previously, he had played exclusively in the AHL Portland. Due to the lockout in the NHL in the 2004 /05 winger also spent the entire game game year 2004 / 05 in the American Hockey League.

For the 2005/06 season, the Washington Capitals changed the location of their farm teams and worked from now on along with the Hershey Bears. Mink came again this year to three NHL inserts, but also fell a long time from a groin injury that forced him to have an operation. Through the operation he came to only 43 AHL inserts in the regular season, but this did not prevent him to perform on his return the Bears in the playoffs with 21 points in as many games to win the Calder Cup. Despite the success Minks contract was not renewed after the season and so took him in July 2006, the San Jose Sharks under contract. There, however, he not made ​​the jump to the NHL squad, so he was sent to the Worcester Sharks in the AHL. As a leader, a player he followed up with his performance in the previous playoffs and set personal records in the categories of goals, assists and points. In the following season 2007/ 08 he was captain of the Worcester Sharks before moving back to Washington after the expiration of his contract in the summer of 2008.

In July 2011 he signed an AHL contract for one year with the Hershey Bears. After expiry of the contract he moved to the Providence Bruins, where he also stood for a year on the ice. Since the 2013/14 season Mink storms for the EC Dornbirn in Austria's Erste Bank Eishockey Liga.

Awards and achievements

• 2006 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 2009 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears

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 )