Paul Stanton

Paul Stanton ( born June 22, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who is in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins and New York Islanders, as well as in the DEL for the Adler Mannheim, the Nuremberg Ice Tigers and the Frankfurt Lions played.

Playing career

The 1.86 m tall defender started his career in the team from the University of Wisconsin in the play mode of the NCAA before he selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 1985 as 149th in the eighth round of the Penguins ( drafted ) was.

First, the right-handed shooter played with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, a Pittsburgh - farm team in the International Hockey League, the very next year he was a member of the tribe, however, permanent cadre of the penguin. With the franchise from Pennsylvania Stanton won the 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cup, the 1993/94 season, he finally moved to the Boston Bruins. However, he was employed both in his involvement with the Bruins and later at the NY Islanders are increasingly at tiefklassigen farm teams, so he finally decided to move to Europe.

For the Adler Mannheim of Americans stood for five years on the ice and won between 1997 and 1999 three times in a row, the German championship. Today Stanton is the player who has completed with 282 season and playoff games, the seventh largest number of games for the Eagles in their club's history, also he is represented today in the team-internal Top10 templates, points and penalty times.

Especially the latter brought Stanton again and again in the headlines, so in the meantime via Nuremberg to Frankfurt impersonated Americans was in season 2002/ 03 with 167 penalty minutes in the regular season of meistbestrafteste players throughout the DEL. With the Lions Stanton won the 2004 German his fourth championship, before joining the season 2004/ 05 at the Malmö Redhawks, where he ended his career after one year.

Today Stanton is active as a coach the hockey team the Florida Gulf Coast University.

Internationally

For the American ice hockey team played Paul Stanton total of 13 games at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1995 and 1996, when the U.S. team won the bronze medal.

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 )