Kevin Porter (ice hockey)
Kevin Porter ( born March 12, 1986 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American professional ice hockey player. Since July 2012, he plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League on the position of the center.
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Career
Kevin Porter has been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the fourth round at a total of 119 position of the Phoenix Coyotes and spent the next four years in the University and College Sports League Central Collegiate Hockey Association, where he 2008 Hobey Baker Memorial Award for the best could attract players in the league. A little later he signed with the Phoenix Coyotes his first pro contract and was still playing in the same season for the farm team of the Coyotes, the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League, to assist them in the play- offs. However, the Rampage were knocked out in the first round in seven games against the Toronto Marlies.
In the opening game of the NHL season 2008/ 09 against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the striker made his debut in the National Hockey League, he scored his first goal on 30 October 2008 in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Most of this and the following season he spent but again with the Rampage, he came in the season 2009/10 to only four NHL games for the franchise in Arizona.
On 3 March 2010, the attacker was transferred along with Peter Mueller to the Colorado Avalanche, the Phoenix Coyotes in return received Wojtek Wolski. After four games for Colorado's farm team in the AHL Lake Erie Monsters Porter was summoned to the NHL team, where he spent the rest of the season.
In July 2012, Porter signed as a free agent a two -year contract with the Buffalo Sabres. In October 2013 he was sent on the waiver in the AHL with the Rochester Americans.
Internationally
His first try for the Canadian national hockey team had the attacker at the 2003 U18 World Junior Championship, where the team narrowly missed a medal and Russia was defeated in the match for third place. In the U18 World Youth Championship in the following year he won the silver medal with his team after they again lost in the final against the Russians. Also in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2005 and 2006, he ran on for his country. The Americans reached the fourth place in both tournaments. An insert in the men's team has so far been denied.
Awards and achievements
- 2005 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
- 2008 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
- 2008 CCHA First All - Star Team
- 2008 CCHA Player of the Year
- 2008 NCAA West First All- Star Team
- 2008 Hobey Baker Memorial Award
- 2013 AHL All- Star Classic
Internationally
- 2004 Silver medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2004 Best original donor of the Under-18 World Youth Championship (together with seven other players )
Career Stats
Internationally
( 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 )