Mark Eaton (ice hockey)
Mark Andrew Eaton ( born May 6, 1977 in Wilmington, Delaware ) is an American professional ice hockey player who is since February 2013 with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League contract.
Career
Mark Eaton began his career as a hockey player with the Waterloo Black Hawks, which until 1997 he was active from 1995 in the United States Hockey League. Then the defender played a year for the team at the University of Notre Dame and was awarded following the season as CCHA Rookie of the Year, and he was taken on August 4, 1998 as a free agent by the Philadelphia Flyers under contract, for their farm team, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, he made his debut in professional hockey in the 1998/99 season. In the following season the links Sagittarius debuted for the Flyers in the National Hockey League, where he in 34 games scored a goal in his rookie year and was a template.
On 29 September 2000, Eaton was issued in exchange for a third-round selection in the NHL Entry Draft Law 2001 to the Nashville Predators for which he stood in the following six seasons in the NHL on the ice. Only during the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season he played exclusively for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL. On 3 July 2006 the Americans was as a free agent bound by the Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he only failed because of the Detroit Red Wings in the 2007/ 08 season in the Stanley Cup Finals, where he was only in 36 games of the regular season was used. In the following season he succeeded with his team and the revenge of the former national player won for the first time in his career the prestigious Stanley Cup. This success contributed Eaton scorer with 16 points, including eight goals in 92 games at. Early July 2010, he moved to the New York Islanders. In February 2013 he was taken by the Pittsburgh Penguins under contract.
Internationally
For the U.S., Eaton took part in the World Championships in 2001 and 2002.
Awards and achievements
NHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)