Mike Stevens (ice hockey, born 1965)

Mike Stevens ( born December 30, 1965 in Kitchener, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who for the Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, New York Islanders and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, and especially for the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Hockey League played.

Playing career

The 1.82 m wide winger began his career with the Kitchener Rangers in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL before he selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 1984 as 58th in the third round by the Canucks ( drafted ) was.

Although the links Sagittarius was six times for the franchise from Vancouver in his first professional season on the ice, he achieved a breakthrough in any of his NHL stations. Until 1990 he graduated only 23 NHL games, scoring one goal and four assists. Later he came, as it did most of the time before, only at different farm team of the NHL clubs to use. Stevens most important stations in the tiefklassigeren leagues in this period were the Fredericton Express, the Springfield Indians, the Newmarket Saints and the Binghamton Rangers of the AHL and the Cincinnati Cyclones and the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the IHL.

For the 1997/98 season the Canadians moved to Germany in the DEL for the Schwenningen Wild Wings. In his first season, he completed 50 games for the Black Forest, but left this to the end of the season in the direction of the Master Adler Mannheim. In 1999, the eagle became the third consecutive German masters, for Stevens himself, it was the first championship. The Canadians played a total of four seasons in Mannheim and in 2001 was again German champion before he moved to the Hamburg Freezers 2002. After a year in the Hanseatic city of Canadians signed a contract with ERC Ingolstadt, where he ended his career after the 2003/ 04 season.

Mike is the brother of Scott Stevens, who graduated 1,635 NHL games in his playing days and was, among other captain of the New Jersey Devils.

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )