Kent Manderville
Kent Stephen Manderville ( born April 12, 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his active period from 1988 to 2007 included for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins played in the National Hockey League.
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Career
Kent Manderville began his career as a hockey player with the Notre Dame Hounds, for which he was active in the 1988/89 season in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. He was then in the second round selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 as a total of 24 players from the Calgary Flames for which, however, he never played. Instead, he first attended for two years the Cornell University, for their hockey team he played parallel to his studies in the ECAC Hockey. In 1990 he was appointed as the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year. From 1991 to 1995 played the center for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League, while their farm team for St. John 's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League was parallel to the ice. In the 1995/96 season he began exclusively at Toronto's AHL farm team before he was released in December 1995 in exchange for Peter White and a fourth- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 1996 to the Edmonton Oilers. For Edmonton, he completed until the end of the season in 37 games three goals and five assists.
The 1996/97 season spent Manderville in the NHL with the Hartford Whalers for their AHL farm team Springfield Falcons, he played in parallel. After the Hurricanes were relocated to the season after he played two and a half years for their successor Carolina Hurricanes team before he was transferred in March 2000 in exchange for Sandy McCarthy to the Philadelphia Flyers. After seasonally across almost exactly two years he moved to Philadelphia in the NHL rivals Pittsburgh Penguins. From 2003 to 2006, the Canadians joined the Timrå IK in the Swedish Elitserien. Most recently, he played in the 2006/07 season for the Espoo Blues in the Finnish SM- liiga, before he ended his career at the age of 36 years.
Internationally
For Canada Manderville took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 1990 and 1991, where he won the gold medal in each case with his team. In the senior level, he stood in the squad of his country at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, where he won the silver medal with Canada.