Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano ( born October 3, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defender of Italian descent who stands in July 2008 with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Mark Giordano first played from 2001 to 2002 at the Brampton Capitals in the unterklassigen Canadian junior league Ontario Junior Hockey League. In his only season with the team of defenders won with the Capitals the Buckland Cup as they defeated the Wellington Dukes in the final series in six games and won the provincial championship the second highest junior level in Ontario. The following two seasons spent the links Sagittarius at the Owen Sound Attack in the Ontario Hockey League. There Giordano convinced in his preferred role as an offensive defender and was in the two OHL seasons 2002/ 03 and 2003/ 04 the top scoring well behind defenders in the jersey of the Owen Sound Attack, where the Canadians counted league 's ten most successful scorers among the defenders. After completing his rookie season Giordano was appointed both in the national team of the best newcomers of the Ontario Hockey League and the Canadian Hockey League. The team result successes remained opposed but rather modest, as reflected also in Giordano's relatively balanced plus / minus balance. Although each of the catchment succeeded in the OHL finals, but in which the Owen Sound Attack failed in the first round.
This was followed by Giordano, who was never drafted, obliged by the Calgary Flames as a free agent in July 2004. First, the defender played for the two former farm team of the Flames, the Lowell Lock Monsters and the Omaha Ak -Sar - Ben Knights of the American Hockey League. During the season 2005/ 06, on 30 January 2006 in the game against the St. Louis Blues, gave the Canadians made his debut in the National Hockey League for Calgary. Overall, he came to seven stakes in his first NHL game time. The AHL season 2005/ 06 ended the Canadians with 16 hits and 42 templates as the best scorer of the Omaha Ak -Sar - Ben Knights. League Wide occupied the links Sagittarius fourth place among the defenders.
On 14 October 2006 he scored his first two NHL goals in the away game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, of all people in his hometown. On August 28, 2007 Giordano rejected a two-way contract for the Flames and their farm team. Then he signed a contract with HK Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Super League. In summer 2008, Giordano returned to the Flames after he had accepted a three- year contract exclusively for the NHL team. In October 2010, the Canadians extended his contract with the Flames for five years until the season end of 2015 / 16th The annual salary volume was set to 4.02 million U.S. dollars.
Giordano is considered an excellent skater, whereas his offensive abilities are considered as valuable property. He also is used in numerous outnumbered situations, while he shows weaknesses in all-around situations. Against physically strong players it often lacks the assertiveness, although Giordano counts as a powerfully built defender to the guide players in Calgary.
In January 2010, he was chosen by the prestigious North American hockey journal The Hockey News as one of the most underrated players in the National Hockey League.
Internationally
Giordano played during the Spengler Cup in 2007 for Team Canada and contributed two assists in the tournament winning the Canadian team. In addition, Giordano was on the national team in the World Cup 2008., Where, however, he did not play. For the World Cup 2010 the defender was re-convened in the squad and competed in all seven games of Canadians on the ice, where Giordano three goals and one assist contributed to the quarter-finals.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 OHL First All - Rookie team
- 2003 CHL All- Rookie Team
- 2007 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Cup 2010
( 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 )