Mike Knuble

Michael Knuble ( born July 4, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario ) is an American professional ice hockey player with a Canadian passport, which is since January 2013 when the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Mike Knuble was born as the son of Latvian- American parents in Toronto, but grew up in Grand Rapids on in the U.S. state of Michigan. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1991, he was selected as the 76th overall player of the Detroit Red Wings. He then played four years with the team from the University of Michigan in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. Towards the end of the 1994/95 season, his last for the University of Michigan, he gave in the Playoffs of the American Hockey League debut in professional hockey for the Adirondack Red Wings, the former AHL farm team of the Detroit Red Wings.

He spent the following season complete with Adirondack, while for the first time in the National Hockey League came in the season 1996/97 are used and distributed over the season nine games for Detroit denied. This season, the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup, but he did not play often enough so that his name could be engraved on the trophy. In the following season, his first season as a full-time player in the NHL, the Red Wings were able to bring the Stanley Cup again and this time also Knubles name was immortalized on the trophy, though he had only three playoff games contested.

Prior to the 1998/99 season Knuble was issued in exchange for a second-round vote, Tomáš Kopecký was elected to the later, the New York Rangers. The following year Knuble played in all 82 regular season games and scored 15 goals and 20 assists. A month before the end of the 1999/2000 season, the Rangers gave him in exchange for Rob DiMaio from the Boston Bruins. The lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season bridged Knuble in Sweden, the Linköpings HC, for which he came in the regular season in 49 games on 26 goals and 13 assists. Following the resumption of gaming operations in the NHL Knuble received a 2005 contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. On February 2, 2008 the Americans scored the first hat trick in his career when he scored all the goals in a 3-0 victory for the Flyers against the Anaheim Ducks.

On 1 July 2009 Knuble signed a two -year contract with the Washington Capitals, which in 2011 was extended by one year.

Beginning of 2013 took him again the Philadelphia Flyers to the end of the season under contract.

Internationally

For the U.S., Knuble took part in the World Championships 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2005 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of the USA at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2012/ 13)