Mike Hartman
Michael " Mike" Hartman ( born February 7, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1984 to 2004 among others for the Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets, Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers has played in the National Hockey League, as well as the Kölner Haie in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career
Mike Hartman began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Belleville Bulls and North Bay Centennials from 1984 to 1987. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round in 1986 when a total of 131 players from the Buffalo Sabres, for which he gave towards the end of the 1986/87 season his debut in the National Hockey League. In 17 games, he scored three goals and there were as many templates. In the following four years, the winger had a regular place in the NHL squad of the Buffalo Sabres, where he spent much of the season in Buffalo's farm team, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League in the 1987/88 season.
On October 11, 1991 Hartman was issued along with Darrin Shannon and Dean Kennedy in exchange for Dave McLlwain, Gord Donnelly, and a fifth- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 at the Winnipeg Jets. In Winnipeg the Americans managed to convince at first, so he was expansion draft in 1992 selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL. However, a team from Florida he was not even a whole season long before he was transferred Deadline for Randy Gilhen to the New York Rangers on 22 March 1993, shortly before the end of the trade. In the Rangers he could in the subsequent period not prevail and came among others in the shortened by a lockout season 1994/95 only to an NHL commitment to the Rangers. In addition, he was in this season seven times for the Detroit Vipers of the International Hockey League on the ice. Also in the 1995/96 season he remained in the IHL and spent the entire season with the Orlando Solar Bears.
On September 26, 1996 Hartman signed a contract as a free agent with the Colorado Avalanche, but he could not recommend for their NHL team and spent the 1996/97 season at Colorado's AHL farm team Hershey Bears. In the following season the former youth international players for the Charlotte Checkers in the East Coast Hockey League was on the ice. There he was able to recommend scorer with 52 points in 60 games for a Engamgent at the Cologne Sharks, for which he in the German Ice Hockey League in 43 games and scored six goals in the 1998/99 season and gave three assists. Then he returned to Charlotte and played sporadically from 2000 to 2004 for the Checkers in the ECHL, before he ended his career at the age of 37 years. In the 2007 /08 season, the former NHL player laced one more time for Charlotte in the ECHL the skates. Hartman was known as a player with very körperbetontem game and regularly received above average number of penalty minutes.
Internationally
For the U.S., Hartman participated in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1987, as well as qualifying for the 1999 World Cup in part.