Landon Wilson

Landon Matthew Wilson ( born March 13, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri ) is an American professional ice hockey player standing since 2008 with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League contract. His father Rick was also a professional hockey player.

Career

Landon Wilson began his career as a hockey player with the Dubuque Fighting Saints, for which he was active in the 1992/93 season in the United States Hockey League. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the first round than a total of 19 players from the Toronto Maple Leafs. However, he never played for the Maple Leafs, as they issued it in June 1994 to the Quebec Nordiques. After the attackers had played from 1993 to 1995 for the University team of University of North Dakota in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, he gave in the 1994/95 season his debut in professional hockey, in a total of 21 games for the Cornwall Aces when he made ​​the American Hockey League aground. The season 1996/ 97, the Americans began with the Colorado Avalanche, before he moved to the Boston Bruins, for whom he played in the following three and a half years in the NHL as well as in the AHL for their farm team, the Providence Bruins. From 2000 to 2004 Wilson played for the Phoenix Coyotes NHL franchise, as he finished the season 2003/ 04 with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The lockout during the 2004/ 05 NHL season bridged Wilson in Europe at the Espoo Blues of the Finnish SM- liiga. After a year in Finland, he joined the Swiss National League A. He first ran a season for HC Davos on before he went to the 2006/07 season for Premier League rivals HC Lugano. In the summer of 2008 he returned to North America to the Dallas Stars, where his father worked as an assistant coach Rick. This had a contract valid for the NHL and AHL offered to him. Wilson could not recommend it for the first NHL squad and then was sent to the Grand Rapids Griffins. He now plays back in the NHL team.

Internationally

For the U.S., Wilson took part in the U20 Junior World Cup in 1995, and the 2001 World Championships in part.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2008/ 09)

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