Kevin Evans (ice hockey)
Kevin Robert Evans ( * July 10th, 1965 in Peterborough, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the Minnesota North Stars and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.
Career
Evans first played three years from 1983 to 1986 in the Canadian Junior Leagues OHL and WHL with various teams.
During his last year in the WHL, the Kalamazoo Wings ungedrafteten the left winger in 1986 participated in the International Hockey League contract. The wings were at this time the farm team of the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League, who committed Evans before the season 1988/89. In the 1990/91 season, the Canadian Stars ran in his first four games for the North, before he was selected in the NHL Dispersal Draft in 1991 by the San Jose Sharks newly established. This put him in the season 1991/92 five more times and Evans scoring the only scorer of his NHL career. Mainly he spent the season but with the Kansas City Blades of the IHL, with whom he could the Turner Cup, the league championship win.
The five NHL bets at the Sharks were the last of his career and the Canadians played in the sequence exclusively in the Minor Leagues. So he ran from 1992 to 1995 in the International Hockey League from 1995 to 1996 and from 1998 to 1999 in the Central Hockey League, from 1996 to 1998 in the East Coast Hockey League and from 1999 to 2000 in Western Professional Hockey League on. He also worked during this period, partly as a player - assistant coach and head coach.