Rob Davison
Rob Davison ( born May 1, 1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player on the position of the defender, who stands in July 2013 in the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League contract.
Career
Davison began his career in the Ontario Hockey League with the North Bay Centennials, where he shone above all by its excellent defensive work on the ice. Overall, he played three seasons in North Bay. In his last season he was an assistant captain of the team, he also was voted Best defensive player of the team.
After Davison began his career in the American Hockey League with the Kentucky Thoroughblades, the former farm team of the San Jose Sharks, who had selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 in the fourth round at position 98. After moving the team from Lexington to Cleveland Davison played two more seasons with farm team before he was first appointed after the change of Bryan Marchment to the Colorado Avalanche in March 2003 to the NHL team. In the 2003 /04 season, Davison became a regular fixture on the defensive the Sharks. So it was also in the 2005/06 season, after the Canadians had spent the lockout season 2004/ 05 at the Cardiff Devils in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Due to the huge competition in the defense squad in San Jose Davison came in the 2006/07 season only rarely used and brought it to 22 times. In the 2007 /08 season Davison was only 15 times for the Sharks on the ice and also an interim retraining as a defensive oriented winger brought him no fixed place in the balanced occupied squad, and he end of February 2008 for a seventh- round draft pick to the New York Islanders was transferred. There he was immediately secured a regular place in the defense and was able to score two points in the remaining 19 games of the season. Among them was a goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs, he scored a strong shot in a lower number of behind their own goal line against his former teammates Vesa Toskala, at the same time - with measured by the NHL 174 feet ( about 53 meters) - one of the of the greatest distance goals scored in the history of the league.
Despite the interim career highs in New York Davison did not renew the expiring contract with the Islanders as a free agent and joined back to the North American west coast to the Vancouver Canucks. This put him mostly as a seventh defender, which he played only 23 games season. On 31 July 2009 he signed a contract with the New Jersey Devils.
After two seasons in Europe, the Canadian returned in July 2013 back to North America and joined again the organization of the San Jose Sharks at, where he signed a one year contract.
Awards and achievements
- 2011 European Trophy prize with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
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 )