Nick Tarnasky

Nick Tarnasky (* November 24, 1984 in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since July 2013 when the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Nick Tarnasky began his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League in which he stood from 2001 to 2004 for the Vancouver Giants, Kelowna Rockets and Lethbridge Hurricanes on the ice. After his second WHL season of the NHL Entry Draft Center in 2003, it was selected in the ninth round than a total of 287 players from the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the season 2004/ 05 Tarnasky first played for Tampa at that time the farm team of the American Hockey League, the Springfield Falcons and came in all 80 games of the regular season for use. In the following season the Canadians made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League, where he played twelve times for Tampa.

After two more years in Tampa Bay Tarnasky was delivered to the Nashville Predators on 29 September 2008 in exchange for a possible sixth- round vote in NHL Entry Draft 2009, which transferred him after not even two months in exchange for Wade Belak to the Florida Panthers. After two seasons, his contract was not extended, however, and in September 2010 Tarnasky invited to the training camp of the Chicago Blackhawks. A few days later, he was aware that the Blackhawks had dismissed him out of training camp and Tarnasky first remained without a club before he signed a contract with the Florida Everblades in the ECHL in November 2010. After only three games, he was obliged by the Springfield Falcons of the AHL for a try-out.

For the 2011/12 season Tarnasky joined Vityaz Chekhov of the Kontinental Hockey League and was there for the players with the most penalty minutes. In July 2012, he was hired by the Buffalo Sabres, which put him in the AHL with the Rochester Americans. In the season 2013/14 he signed a contract with the Montreal Canadiens.

NHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)