Mark Bell (ice hockey)
Mark Bell (* August 5, 1980 in St. Paul's, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since November 2013 in the Berlin Polar Bears in the German Ice Hockey League contract.
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Career
Mark Bell began his career in 1996 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Ottawa 67 's. While he was in his rookie season with difficulty did, he succeeded in his second season a jump from twelve to 60 points. The Chicago Blackhawks selected him in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 at position eight. In another two years in the OHL, he still proved his abilities as a scorer, and his last season was his best, as he managed 72 points in 48 games.
After Bell moved in 2000 to the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League, who acted as a farm team of the Chicago Blackhawks. After he also brought convincing performances there, he was nominated for eleven games in the National Hockey League and was from the 2001/02 season for the Blackhawks solid squad. From year to year he increased his points total. The season 2004/ 05 he spent in the Norwegian GET - ligaen in Trondheim Black Panthers, as the NHL season was canceled because of the lockout. Bell led the team this season to the championship finals, in which it defeated Vålerenga IF.
The NHL season 2005/ 06, after the lockout had ended, discharged, but Bell succeeded still does not get its Scorer qualities from his youth, although he in 82 games scored his best result with 48 points. In summer 2006, Bell was part of a transfer deal between the Blackhawks, the Ottawa Senators and San Jose Sharks. Ottawa transferred Bryan Smolinski and Martin Havlát to Chicago, the Sharks sent Tom Price Sing and Josh Hennessy to Ottawa, while the charges Blackhawks Mark Bell to San Jose and Michal Barinka and a draft pick to Ottawa. In San Jose Bell did not fulfill the hopes placed in him by the side of the duo Joe Thornton and Jonathan Cheechoo, so he was transferred after one season in the summer of 2007 together with Vesa Toskala goalkeeper to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In August 2007, Bell was sentenced by a court to imprisonment for six months because of a hit and run and drunk driving, he had to begin in 2007/ 08 after the end of the season. The NHL responded a month later and suspended him indefinitely because he had offended by his offense against the NHL / NHLPA Substance Abuse & Behavioral Health Program. On September 12, the league management said that Bell for his offense a total of 15 games will be blocked without pay. Bell sat the sentence from the beginning of the season, before joining in November for the team. After he had acclimatized there, forced him to a suffered in January fracture of the orbital bone to a one and a half month forced break, which he played a total of only 35 games. During the summer break the Canadians finally went to his sentence. The resulting sub-optimal pre-season meant that he by the new head coach Ron Wilson, under whom he had already played in San Jose, sorted out of the squad and was sent to the farm team for the Toronto Marlies of the AHL. In the Marlies the striker spent the entire 2008/ 09 well into February before he on the waiver list - was committed by the New York Rangers - as one of the first acts of the new head coach John Tortorella. There he came primarily for the farm team Hartford Wolf Pack inserts.
Since his expiring contract was not renewed, Bell received an invitation to the training camp of the Philadelphia Flyers, where he also did not make the jump to the NHL squad. From the end of September 2009 to June 2011 was Mark Bell at the Kloten Flyers in Switzerland under contract. The Kloten Flyers gave the end of November 2010 that they would not renew the expiring contract at the end of the season. He then signed on 20 July 2011, a contract for one season with the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, graduated from there but only five games. He received his missions in Farm Team Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. In September 2012, he opted for another move to Europe and got a contract with the Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He extended on February 23, 2013 his contract for another season at Iserlohn Seilersee. After an operation in the summer of 2013 due to a shoulder injury, Bell fell through the sports medical examination, so that his contract lost validity. However, he initially remained in Iserlohn, where he was working on his comeback. On November 16, 2013 Bell left Iserlohn, because it could not agree on a new contract with the Roosters. After he was even an injury early in the season, he coached already returned several weeks with the Roosters before he left the club and joined the League within the polar bear Berlin.
Play
Mark Bell is regarded as a power forward who prefers the physical play. He has excellent defensive skills, but is criticized for he shoots and prepare to few goals.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
- 2000 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 Junior World Championship 2000
( 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 )