Grant Martin
Grant Michael Martin ( born March 13, 1962 in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the position of left winger. Martin played during his career in the National Hockey League for the Vancouver Canucks and Washington Capitals as well as for the Schwenningen Wild Wings in the German Ice Hockey League.
Career
Grant Martin began his career in 1977 in unterklassigen junior leagues in Hespeler Shamrocks and Guelph Platers before he joined in 1979 as a first-round pick of the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League. With the Rangers he won in 1981 and 1982 the J. Ross Robertson Cup for the champion of the OHL, which is then the most important trophy in the Canadian junior hockey, the Memorial Cup play. Martin won this with the team in 1982.
In the NHL Entry Draft in 1980, he was selected to 196th place out of the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he in the National Hockey League skates laced 1982-1985, but mainly for their at that time the American Hockey League farm team Fredericton Express went on the ice. In August 1985, he signed as a free agent contract with the Washington Capitals of the NHL. For the Capitals, he was the following two seasons used sporadically and also played mainly for their AHL farm team, the Binghamton Whalers before their Premier League rivals Rochester Americans joined.
The 1988/89 season Martin played in Europe in the Finnish club JYP HT, with whom he won the Finnish runner-up title behind the team from Turku. From 1989 he played until the end of his career in 1998 in Germany for the Schwenningen Wild Wings Hockey - Bundesliga and the German Ice Hockey League. In addition, Martin was in the 1989/90 season for five games for the Canadian national team on the ice in 1984/85 for two games at the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the International Hockey League, and 1990/91 a game for the EC VSV from the Austrian Hockey League, for which he already 1987/88 half a season played.