Grant Marshall
Marshall Grant ( born June 9, 1973 in Mississauga, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in his playing days from 1990 to 2008 among others for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League.
Career
Grant Marshall began his career as a hockey player in Canada's top junior league Ontario Hockey League, where he 's 67 and Newmarket Royals was active from 1990 to 1993 for Ottawa. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in the first round than a total of 23 players from the Toronto Maple Leafs, for whom he never played, however. Instead, he spent the 1993/94 season with their farm team in the American Hockey League, the St. John 's Maple Leafs, before August 10, 1994 under Peter Zezel as compensation for the prior obligation of Toronto's Mike Craig as a free agent, to issued the Dallas Stars. For the stars of the attackers were in the 1994/95 season his debut in the National Hockey League, however, was mainly for their farm team in the International Hockey League, the Kalamazoo Wings on.
With the Dallas Stars Marshall won in the 1998/99 season for the first time the prestigious Stanley Cup. In the following season he failed with his team in the finals to the New Jersey Devils. In exchange for a second-round vote, he was released on August 29, 2001 to the Columbus Blue Jackets, founded a year earlier, he represented the following two years on the ice. Shortly before the end of the Trade Deadline in the season 2002/ 03, the Canadian was transferred to the New Jersey Devils, with whom he subsequently won the Stanley Cup in the playoffs for the second time in his career, with the right shooter in 24 playoff inserts eight scorer points, including six goals, scored. During the lockout in the season 2004/ 05 Marshall paused with ice hockey, returned to resume the game operation for the 2005/06 season, however, to New Jersey back. From 2006 to 2008 he played for New Jersey's AHL farm team, the Lowell Devils, where he ended his career.