Jim Montgomery (ice hockey)
Jim Montgomery (* June 30, 1969 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League, the Kölner Haie in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga and Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Russian Super League.
Career
Montgomery played for four years from 1989 to 1993 at the University of Maine in the Hockey East Division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. After he had been respectively appointed as early as the seasons 1990/91 and 1991/92 to the Second All-Star Team of Hockey East, he was in the 1992/93 season, when he his team with 95 points from 45 games to win the national Championship led, showered with awards, including the appointment of the Most Valuable Player of the final Championship Tournament.
Despite his outstanding achievements of the Centre had been drafted by any franchise in the National Hockey League, which meant that Montgomery was taken to the 1993/94 season as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues under contract. This put him right in his rookie season in 67 games one, in which he scored 20 points. It should also be the most successful NHL season of his career. As a result, the Canadians played until the end of the game year 1995/96 after transfer dealings for the Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers, but was only sporadically used in the NHL and played mostly at the farm teams in the Minor Leagues.
Therefore, he moved to Europe in summer 1996 and ran in the 1996 /97 for the Cologne Sharks in the DEL, where he was able to record 47 points in 50 games.
As early as the 1997/98 season Montgomery returned to North America, but was initially only at the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, the farm team of the Philadelphia Flyers, who held the rights to transfer his person, on the ice. Only in the summer of 2000, he joined as a free agent with the San Jose Sharks, but also sporadically in the NHL put him as the Dallas Stars in the seasons 2001/ 02 and 2002/ 03.
After his last missions in the NHL for the Dallas Stars Montgomery went to the 2003/04 season to Europe again. This time, he signed a contract with Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Russian Super League. His last stop was in season 2004/ 05, the Missouri River Otters of the United Hockey League, before he ended his active career after 122 NHL games and 34 points.
He then worked in the 2005/06 season as an assistant coach at the University of Notre Dame before he also joined in the function of assistant coach to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.