Mark Murphy (ice hockey)

Mark Murphy ( born August 6, 1976 in Duxbury, Massachusetts) is an American professional ice hockey player who stars in the German Ice Hockey League was recently at the DEG Metro under contract.

Career

Murphy began his career in 1995 as a team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with whom he played from now on in the U.S. College Football ECAC Hockey. The right-handed shooter has been improved continuously and was in his final year of study to the point best players in the team. He scored 41 points scorer in 37 games. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1995, he was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the eighth round in a total of 197 positions. Murphy finished his studies and then joined in the summer of 1999 in the American Hockey League, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the farm team of the Pittsburgh Penguins. There, however, he could not sit down and was used during the season often in the East Coast Hockey League. Finally, he joined the end of the season the Philadelphia Phantoms, for which he was employed in two play-off games.

In the following years he became a free agent with the Washington Capitals, the exclusively on their farm team, the Portland Pirates, put him. Despite good performances, which he showed at the Pirates, he never got the chance to prove himself in the NHL. Overall, he was wearing the shirt of the Pirates 214 times, scoring 172 points scorer. After another three-year engagement at the Philadelphia Phantoms, he left the club during the 2005 /06 and signed a contract with IFK Helsingfors from the highest Finnish ice hockey league, the SM- liiga. There he completed only 21 games and moved shortly before the end of the Swiss National League A for HC Fribourg- Gottéron, where he finished the current season end.

There, the leaders of the Augsburger Panther became aware of the then 30 -year-old and transferred him to the German Hockey League. For the Panthers, he belonged to the tribe immediately squad and was one of the performers. In his first year in Augsburg, he scored 24 points in 28 games. He also held the captaincy of the AEV. Mark Murphy had at the Augsburg Panthers a contract until 2009. After the season, the striker moved to the DEG Metro Stars, where he signed a two -year contract.

Awards and achievements

• 2001 AHL All- Star Classic
• 2005 Calder Cup - winning Philadelphia Phantoms with the

DEL 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 )