Justin Mercier

Justin Mercier ( born June 25, 1987 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American professional ice hockey player who was most recently in the 2012/13 season with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the German Ice Hockey League contract.

Career

Justin Mercier was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2005 by the Colorado Avalanche in the sixth round at 168th place. He began his pro career finally 2009, when he signed a three -year contract with the Colorado Avalanche. In the 2009/10 season he was mainly used in the Lake Erie Monsters in the American Hockey League, the farm team of the Colorado Avalanche. For nine games this season Mercier was appointed to the cadre of the Colorado Avalanche, he also played 64 games for the Lake Erie Monsters. Overall, he scored in his debut season total 25 points scorer for both teams.

In the following two seasons Mercier was a total of 220 games and 76 points scorer record player at the Lake Erie Monsters, but no appeal was more to the squad of the Colorado Avalanche.

Mercier was no extension of the contract by the Colorado Avalanche offered for the following season, so he was invited as a free agent just two months after the start of the regular season 2012/ 13 for trial at the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg. There are four -budgetary striker at that time were partly precipitated the long term. Following successful tryout Mercier received a contract until the end of the season and made his debut on 31 October for the Grizzly Adams in a home game against ERC Ingolstadt. However, Mercier could not fulfill the expectations placed in him as a result - in his first 31 games for the Grizzly Adams reach the striker just two goals and three assists - and quickly became the flop. Consequently, his contract was not renewed at the end of the season.