Mark Ardelan

Mark Ardelan ( born March 16, 1983 in Regina, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays for the Iserlohn Roosters of the German Hockey League since 2008.

Career

Ardelan began as a five year old with ice hockey games and started his career in 1999 at the age of 16 years with the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL. After two years he moved to the Vancouver Giants, in which he was the best point defender. The 2003/04 season spent Ardelan at the Prince Albert Raiders, where he could prove his offensive potential and also the second best scorer of the team was. Although Ardelan counted over five years in the WHL of the best defensive players, he was taken into consideration by any team of the National Hockey League NHL Entry Draft. However, the Canadians received after his junior season 2004 an invitation to training camp for the San Jose Sharks, but could not prevail there.

Ardelans first professional team was finally the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL, where he at first the top scoring defense in the league as a rookie and was also his first game at Partners Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League denied. For the 2005/06 season the links Sagittarius made ​​the final leap into the AHL and the Manchester Monarchs joined them, but he left after a year toward Iowa Stars. The 2007/08 season, the previously most successful season for Ardelan because he was able to qualify with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the first East Division for the playoffs in the Eastern Conference, and finally in the final series to the Calder Cup moved. Here, however, the team defeated the Chicago Wolves.

For the 2008/09 season Ardelan moved to Europe, where he first went for Rauman Lukko in the Finnish SM- liiga on the ice. After problems due to the short preparation time for the new season, the Canadians Finland but left on 19 November 2008, and was two days later committed by the Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, after following the departure of Brendan Buckley looking counsel were. In Sauerland Ardelan signed a year contract and met here on his former team-mate Marty Wilford, had played together with the already 2005 to 2007 in the AHL. The Canadians could fulfill its obligation accents particularly on the offensive end of the season and extended his contract for another year. In the 2009/10 season he made with Wilford the first defender pair of Iserlohn. In addition, both were the offensive strongest defenders of the Roosters. Also in the defensive work they were able to convince, in the first half of the season conceding only four teams fewer goals. To play-off qualification, it was enough at season's end not because the performance of the team, especially from January were no longer sufficient. After the season Ardelan extended his contract with striker Jeff Giuliano two years.

Awards and achievements

• 2004 WHL East First All-Star Team
• 2005 ECHL All-Star Game
• 2005 ECHL All- Rookie Team

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 )