Steve McCarthy

Steve McCarthy ( born February 3, 1981 in Trail, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who stands in January 2013 in the ZSC Lions in the National League A under contract.

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Career

Steve McCarthy started his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League in which he held until 2000, was active from 1996 for Edmonton Ice, which had moved to Kootenay 1998. With the team renamed the Kootenay Ice, he won in the 1999/2000 season the President's Cup as WHL champions. During this time he had been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the first round than a total of 23 players from the Chicago Blackhawks.

For the Blackhawks the defender was towards the end of the 1999/2000 season his debut in the National Hockey League, where he scored one goal in five games and gave a presentation. In the four years in which the defender aground for the Blackhawks in the NHL, he also came for their farm team, the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League to inserts. During the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season the links Sagittarius paused with ice hockey. Before resumption of gaming operations in the NHL in August 2005, McCarthy has been submitted for a third round draft law in the NHL Entry Draft in 2007 to the Vancouver Canucks, he already left again late in the season 2005/ 06.

The following two and a half seasons was the Canadians for the Atlanta Thrashers on the ice before he moved to former Russian champion Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the newly-formed Continental Hockey League in the summer of 2008. After a year in Europe, he returned to the NHL, where he was hired by the Anaheim Ducks. This transferred him before the start of the season for his former team, the Atlanta Thrashers. The 2009/10 season the defender spent at their farm team, the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League. Following the Canadians received a contract with TPS Turku of the SM - liiga. In October 2011, the defender was named after a try-out required by the ZSC Lions of the National League A. After ten games, the Lions extended 6 November 2011 the contract with the Canadians until the end of the season 2011/12. On April 17, 2012, he scored 2.5 seconds before the end of the seventh game of the Swiss playoff finals against SC Bern 2-1 winning goal for the ZSC Lions. After his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2012, McCarthy returned to North America and joined the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League. In January 2013, the Canadian was taken again by the ZSC Lions under contract.

Internationally

For Canada, McCarthy took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001.

Awards and achievements

  • 2000 President's Cup win with the Kootenay Ice
  • 2012 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions

Internationally

  • 2000 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
  • 2001 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships

NHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)

Trail (British Columbia) 1999 NHL Entry Draft Ed Chynoweth Cup Farmteam 2004–05 NHL lockout 2004–05 NHL season 2007 NHL Entry Draft 2005–06 NHL season 2009–10 AHL season 2011–12 NLA season Canada men's national ice hockey team 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 2001 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Patrick Geering Mathias Seger Luca Cunti Dan Fritsche Ryan Keller Robert Nilsson Ryan Shannon Morris Trachsler Roman Wick Marc Crawford
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