Mike Fountain
Mike Fountain ( born January 26, 1972 in North York, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender in his career some NHL games for the Vancouver Canucks, Carolina Hurricanes and Ottawa Senators and later graduated long for the HK Lada Togliatti in the Continental Hockey League was active. Currently he works as a goalkeeping coach at the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the United States Hockey League.
Career
Mike Fountain first played in smaller junior leagues before he joined the Ontario Hockey League in 1990. Here he was responsible for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Oshawa Generals active. In the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 the keeper of the Vancouver Canucks was selected in the second round to 45th place. Subsequently, he was active for the Canadian national team at the World Youth Championship in 1992.
From the autumn of 1992 he played for the farm team of the Canucks that. Hamilton Canucks, in the American Hockey League Even as this 1994 by a relocation to Syracuse Crunch, Fountain remained loyal to the team. In the season 1996/97 he came to his debut in the National Hockey League, where he celebrated a shutout equal and completed a total of six games for the Canucks. In the summer of 1997, the goalkeeper then signed with the Carolina Hurricanes, for he stood in three games on the ice. Mainly he spent the next two years, however, at the Beast of New Haven in the AHL. 1999 Fountain became a free agent and the Ottawa Senators joined them. Again, he only played a few games in the NHL and was mostly in the International Hockey League with the Grand Rapids Griffins used. In 2001, the Left Catcher to Russia and played in the Super League for the HK Lada Togliatti. In his first two years he reached the best Gegentorschnitt the entire league.
For the season 2003/ 04 he changed in the German Hockey League to the Iserlohn Roosters. Here he formed together with Dimitrij Kotschnew a Torhüterduo. After he started the next season in the United Hockey League, he finally went back to Russia, this time in the second highest league. In the following two years he was active for two clubs from Chelyabinsk - first for the HK Mechel and then for the HK tractor. 2006 Fountain returned to HK Lada Togliatti. Even as his team moved in 2008 to the newly formed Continental Hockey League, he remained on the team. In 2009, he finished his career.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )