Matt Ellison
Matt Ellison ( born December 8, 1983 in Duncan, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who stands in October 2013 in Zagreb KHL Medveščak in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
Career
Matt Ellison began his career as a hockey player with the Cowichan Valley Capitals, for which he was active from 1999 to 2002 in the British Columbia Hockey League. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 in the fourth round as a total of 128 players from the Chicago Blackhawks. First, however, the attacker played a year for the Red Deer Rebels in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League before he made his debut for the Blackhawks in the National Hockey League in the 2003/04 season. In his rookie year he was doing a presentation in ten games. Mainly, however, he was likewise in the following year during the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season for Chicago's farm team, the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League, on the ice.
On 5 December 2005 Ellison was released along with a third-round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 in exchange for Patrick Sharp and Eric Meloche to the Philadelphia Flyers. For this he completed in the following two seasons, only seven games in the NHL, as he played otherwise for their AHL farm team Philadelphia Phantoms. After a year at the AHL team of the Milwaukee Admirals, the Canadians joined the 2008/09 season Dinamo Riga from the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League. For Latvians, he scored in 55 games, then 39 points scorer, after which he moved to the league rivals HK MVD Balaschicha.
After the merger of HK MVD with Dynamo Moscow Ellison moved in summer 2010 to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.
2013 Ellison moved to EHC Biel in the National League A. Due to unsatisfactory performance was dissolved his contract after only seven games, there he moved back to the KHL, where the Canadians will henceforth play for KHL Medveščak Zagreb.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 WHL East Second All-Star Team
- 2003 Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy
- 2003 CHL Rookie of the Year
- 2003 CHL All- Rookie Team
- 2010 Russian Vice- Champion with HK MVD Balaschicha