Robert Farmer (ice hockey)
Robert Farmer ( born March 21, 1991, Nottingham, England ) is a British ice hockey player standing since 2012 when the Alaska Aces in the ECHL under contract.
Career
Robert Farmer began his career as a hockey player at the 2002 Nottingham Cougars, a youth team from his hometown. At 14, he moved to Sheffield, where he played in various youth teams. Already in the 2005 /06 gave the striker but also his business card at senior level from when he took both for the Sheffield Scimitars in the third-tier English Premier Ice Hockey League and for the Sheffield Spartans in unterklassigen English National League.
His debut in the Elite Ice Hockey League, the highest British league, he was in the 2009 /10, the Sheffield Steelers, who had become the British Champion in the two previous years. With the team from Yorkshire he finished the IIHF Continental Cup 2009/10 behind the EC Red Bull Salzburg and HK Junost Minsk third place. From there he moved a year later to the Ottawa 67 's in the Ontario Hockey League. The Canadians, however, he could not prevail, and only came to a single use, which is why he was still in the same season went back to the Elite Ice Hockey League and signed a contract with the Coventry Blaze signed. There he was a total of 114 games in which he scored 40 goals in two Jahrenauf. In 2012 he moved to the Scottish Renfrewshire to the Braehead Clan. But a year later, he returned to North America and has performed since then in Anchorage at the Alaska Aces in the ECHL.
Internationally
For UK farmers took at junior level at the Division II U18 Junior World Championship 2009, the Division II U20 World Junior Championship in 2009 and 2010 and the Division I of the U-20 Junior World Cup 2011 part. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships Division I 2012 and 2013. Here were his two goals in the games not prevent against Italy and Japan at the 2013 World Cup relegation in the group B of Division I. He also stood for its colors in the qualifying tournaments for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games on the ice. First, the first qualifying round was won in November 2012 in the Japanese Nikko with a 2-1 victory over the Japanese team. In the second round, which was held in February 2013 in Riga, Latvia, the British Lehgeld but had to pay farmers and lost all three games.
Awards and achievements
- 2010 Promotion to Division I in the U20 Junior World Championship Division II
- 2010 Third place in the IIHF Continental Cup 2009 /10 with the Sheffield Steelers
Statistics
(End of season 2012/ 13)