Matt Nickerson

Matt Nickerson (born 11 January 1985 in Old Lyme, Connecticut ) is an American professional ice hockey player who last stood until 2010 when the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League contract.

Career

Matt Nickerson began his career as a hockey player with the Texas Tornado, for which he was active from 2001 to 2003 in the Junior League North American Hockey League. Then the defender played a game each time for the team of Clarkson University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, as well as the Tigres de Victoriaville in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL.

In the season 2005/ 06 Nickerson made ​​his debut in professional hockey when he ran aground in a total of 50 games for Ässät Pori in the Finnish SM- liiga. For his runner-up team, he contributed six goals and eight assists. Then he returned to North America, where in the ECHL, he stood in the following season for the Iowa Stars in the American Hockey League and the Idaho Steelheads on the ice.

From 2007 to 2009 Nickerson was in Northern Europe with his Finnish former club Ässät Pori, as well as its domestic rivals Ilves Tampere and the Malmö Redhawks of the HockeyAllsvenskan, the Swedish second division, under contract. For the 2009/10 season he signed with the organization of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, but only came to 19 inserts for their farm team in the AHL, the Springfield Falcons. Since then he has vertragslos.

Awards and achievements

• 2006 Finnish runner with Ässät Pori

Statistics

(End of season 2009/10)