Kris Beech
Kristopher Beech ( born February 5, 1981 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since February 2014 at the Vienna Capitals in the Erste Bank Hockey League contract.
Career
The 1.88 m wide center began his career with the Calgary Hitmen in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL before being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 as seventh in the first round by the Capitals.
His first four NHL bets graduated from the links Sagittarius towards the end of the 2000/01 season, at the start of the following season Beech was transferred together with Michal Sivek and Ross Lupaschuk in a Tauschschgeschäft against Jaromir Jagr and Frantisek Kucera to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Canadian graduated in his first season for the Penguins do 79 matches and scored ten goals and 15 assists, but the authorities in Pittsburgh were dissatisfied with the further development of their Neueinkaufs, so Kris Beech on September 9, 2005 for a draft pick in the next entry Draft to the Nashville Predators was sent. On 9 March 2006, he finally returned, back in exchange for a Erstrundenpick and defender Brendan Witt, to Washington. There Beech first played at the AHL farm team, Hershey Bears, with whom he could to the Calder Cup of the season 2005/ 06 win. Since this success Kris Beech was back in the NHL strain squad of the capital city.
In the summer of 2007 he signed a one - year contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets. There he accomplished - as well as in his next two short-term stations, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Vancouver Canucks - but at no time the permanent jump to the NHL strain squad, so that the attacker left the league after the 2007/ 08 season to the HV 71 Jönköping to lace up the skates in the Swedish Elitserien. With the HV71 Canadians was in season 2008/ 09 runner-up, before the Swedish championship was won in the following season. In May 2011 he signed a contract with Rauman Lukko in the SM- liiga.
In October 2013, the previously without clubs Center initially took part in the training of the German first division Straubing Tigers before he signed a one year contract on 24 October 2013.
On 27 February 2014, the Tigers announced that Beech is on to finish the season on loan at the Vienna Capitals, who play in the Erste Bank Hockey League.
Awards and achievements
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 )