Rumun Ndur
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Rumun Ndur (born 7 July 1975 Zaria ) is a Nigerian - Canadian ice hockey player (defender). He has also stood until 2010 at the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League contract. In the National Hockey League, he was active for the Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers and Atlanta Thrashers.
Career
Rumun Ndur, who was born in Nigeria, grew up in Sarnia, Canada. He began his career, first in the junior teams around his home town. In the 1992/93 season, he joined the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Guelph Storm, where he played for three seasons. In 146 games, he scored 17 goals and 57 assists for a total of 74 points, he also spent 393 minutes in the penalty box. Prior to his last OHL season of Nigerians had been selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the third round of the NHL Entry Draft 1994 69th position, which he was the first Nigerian to have managed.
In the 1995/96 season the defender to the Rochester Americans, the farm team Buffalos changed. Already in its second seasons there he had the charge so impressed that he still during the 1996/97 season, his first two games in the National Hockey League denied, so he became the first player in his country, which ran aground in the NHL. In the following season, he ran again for the Sabres on, but by the excess supply of good defensive players they put Ndur in December 1998 on the waiver list. From there, the New York Rangers took over his rights and put him in 31 games of the season 1998/99. Here he succeeded in his first four points, including a goal. After only one year with the Rangers, the newly formed Atlanta Thrashers obliged him in December 1999 by the waiver list and he played in 27 games for the team. This should be at the same time been his last NHL games. Ndur began the 2000/01 season with the Orlando Solar Bears of the International Hockey League and finished it at the Norfolk Admirals in the AHL.
In summer 2001, he signed as a free agent contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. After this had continued to put him in the AHL with the Norfolk Admirals, it pulled the Nigerians to Europe, where he played in the 2002/03 season for the EC Graz 99ers of the Austrian Hockey League. The season 2003/ 04 he spent at the Columbus Cottonmouths in the ECHL. He then played one and a half years in the United Hockey League for the Danbury Trashers and Kalamazoo Wings before he finished the season 2005/ 06 at HK Jesenice in the Slovenian Hockey League. With Jesenice he immediately became Slovenian champion. In the following two years he remained in Europe and played for Coventry Blaze in the British Elite Ice Hockey League. With Coventry he won the 2007 league title and the EIHL EIHL Challenge Cup. For the season 2008/ 09 he moved within the EIHL to the Nottingham Panthers, for whom he scored two goals in 33 games and was four templates. Most recently, he was in the 2009/10 season with the Muskegon Lumberjacks in the IHL in 2007 the newly founded under contract. After the season Team League and were dissolved, after which he remained without a club.