Gregory Campbell (ice hockey)

Gregory Campbell ( born December 17, 1983 in London, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since June 2010, with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League contract. His father Colin Campbell was also a professional hockey player.

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Career

Gregory Campbell began his career as a hockey player with the Plymouth Whalers, where he was active from 2000 to 2002 a total of two years in the Ontario Hockey League. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 in the third round than a total of 67 players from the Florida Panthers. First, however, the Center spent another year in the OHL, where he stood for the Kitchener Rangers on the ice. In the 2003 / 04 season, Campbell played for the first time in professional hockey when he was included in the squad of Florida damaligem Farm Team San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League. In the same season the Canadians made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in which he came for the Panthers used twice. The following season Campbell spent entirely in San Antonio due to the lockout in the NHL.

From the season 2006/ 07 Campbell belonged exclusively to the NHL squad the Panthers. In June 2010, he gave them in a barter together with Nathan Horton of the Boston Bruins, and received Dennis Wideman, a first-round election law as well as a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2010. With the Bruins Campbell won in the 2010/11 season the Stanley Cup.

Internationally

Gregory Campbell participated with the Canadian national team at the U20 World Youth Championship 2003, where he won the silver medal with his team.

Awards and achievements

  • 2002 CHL Top Prospects Game
  • 2003 J. Ross Robertson Cup with the Kitchener Rangers win
  • 2003 Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers win
  • 2003 Memorial Cup All- Star team

Internationally

  • 2003 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships

NHL stats

(End of season 2012/ 13)

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