John Tripp (ice hockey)
John Tripp ( born May 4, 1977 in Kingston, Ontario ) is a German - Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays for the Cologne Sharks of the German Ice Hockey League since October 2010. Earlier career positions have included the New York Rangers and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. He is also a German national team.
Career
John Tripp played at the beginning of his professional career with three years in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Oshawa Generals. During the NHL Entry Draft 1995, the winger from the Colorado Avalanche in the third round was selected at 77th overall position. Since the Avalanche did not make use of their rights, Tripp was but two years later, again for election and he was pulled to 42 instead of the Calgary Flames, but for which he also never completed a game. 1997 won the Canadian with the Oshawa Generals of the J. Ross Robertson Cup as the winner of the OHL playoffs. From 1997 to 2002, the right-handed shooter played in the three North American minor leagues American Hockey League, International Hockey League and East Coast Hockey League for nine different teams. Only for 2002/ 03 he received inserts in the top division National Hockey League for the New York Rangers.
There, John Tripp graduated nine games in which he scored three points scorer and could have a plus / minus stats by 1. Those responsible for the Rangers put the Canadians but mainly in the Hartford Wolf Pack, her former farm team in the AHL, and gave it off to the next season of the Los Angeles Kings. After he here also could not prevail, and also often came into use in the AHL, the attacker has signed for season 2004/ 05 a contract with the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, where he played a total of two years.
Since John Tripp German ancestors has, 2006, he received a German passport. Since then he has occupied in the DEL no longer foreigners site and is eligible to play for the German national team. Since the Mannheim Eagles in the summer of 2006 restructured their team and Tripp in the planning of the association did not matter, he moved to league rivals ERC Ingolstadt. For the Panthers, Canadian-born showed pleasing performance and thus drew the interest of the Hamburg Freezers on to the transferred him to the 2007/ 08 to the Elbe.
In October 2010 he signed a contract with the Cologne Sharks with a term until 2011, after he had trained early in the season at the Hannover Scorpions and completed six DEL games. End of the season 10/11 extended the sharks his contract by a year.
Internationally
Since 2007, John Tripp is a member of the German national team, with whom he participated in the World Cup in Russia in the same year. There, the striker with the German team was able to secure the league and just missed the quarter-finals. The right-handed shooter graduated six games in which he was able to record three points scorer and a plus / minus statistic of -1. A year later, the former national coach Uwe Krupp nominated him again in the team that participated in the 2008 World Championship in Canada.
Social Commitment
John Tripp is involved in addition to his work as a professional hockey player for many charitable causes. So he called some time ago a charity called " Tripp- Charity" to life, with which he raises money for children with cancer. Through various actions, such as the auction of his jersey during a home game of the Hamburg Freezers, he collected the donations of supporters. In addition, it help Christian Ehrhoff, Dennis Seidenberg, Marcel Goc, and Christoph Schubert. The money he is the " Promotion of Children's Cancer Center Hamburg " is available.
Awards and achievements
- 2009 Best striker in the Olympic Qualification Group E
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 )