Robert Dowd (ice hockey)
Robert Dowd (born 26 May 1988 in Billingham, England ) is a British ice hockey player who is again since 2013 in the Sheffield Steelers in the Elite Ice Hockey League contract.
Career
Robert Dowd began his career as a hockey player at the 2000 Juniors Billingham, a youth team from his hometown. There he was at times simultaneously active for the Billingham Bombers. He was also once used by the Solihull Kings in the third-tier English Premier Ice Hockey League in 2005. He then spent a year in the United States, but could not prevail at the Detroit Trackers and denied not a game for the team from the auto capital. At age 18, he moved to Sheffield, where he was both the Scimitars in the English Premier Ice Hockey League and for the Sheffield Steelers in the Elite Ice Hockey League, the highest British League, active.
After five years with the team from Yorkshire, with whom he was in 2008, 2009 and 2011 to win the British Championship and also 2010 Third place was taken at the IIHF Continental Cup, Dowd moved in 2011 to league rivals Belfast Giants in Northern Ireland. But a year later he moved to IF Troja Ljungby - in the second Swedish league. 2013 he returned to Sheffield back to the Steelers.
Internationally
For UK Dowd took at junior level for the first time at the Division I U18 Junior World Championship 2005 in part as the team descended. The following year he wore as top scorer of the Division II six goals and eight assists significantly to the chances of promotion of the British junior at. In the U20 World Junior Championships in 2007 and 2008 he played with the British team in Division I.
His debut in the British men's selection was Dowd in November 2008 in the first round of Olympic qualification for the Vancouver Games in 2010, when the British were only behind Japan and Poland and were eliminated by third parties. At the World Championships Division I 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 he was also responsible for his native country at the start. He was in 2012 with a total of five goals in the games against Ukraine ( 4-3 after extra time ) and Hungary ( 5:4 ), each including the winning goal, not only instrumental in the relegation of the British in Group A of the Division, but also became top scorer of the tournament. A year later he met only once and could not avoid relegation of his team in the group B of Division I. Previously, he had supported in November 2012 and in February 2013 his colors at the Olympic qualification for the Games in Sochi 2014. In contrast to the qualification four years earlier, the British had indeed can enforce in the first round, but then had suffered significant defeats in part against Latvia, France and Kazakhstan.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 promotion to the Division I of the U-18 World Cup with the British team at the Division II of the U-18 World Cup 2006 and top scorer of the tournament
- 2008 British Champion with the Sheffield Steelers
- 2009 British Champion with the Sheffield Steelers
- 2010 Third place in the IIHF Continental Cup 2009 /10 with the Sheffield Steelers
- 2011 British Champion with the Sheffield Steelers
- 2012 top scorer of Group A of Division I of the 2012 World Championships
Statistics
(End of season 2012/ 13)