Todd Simon
Todd Simon (* April 21, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who spent four seasons in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga active.
Career
Simon began his career in 1989 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Niagara Falls Thunder. There he played until 1992 and was at that time one of the best scorers in the league. He scored in the 1991/92 season, which was his last at the same time in 83 games 187 points scorer. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 he was selected by the managers of the Buffalo Sabres in the ninth round in a total of 203 positions.
The right-handed shooter moved in the summer of 1992 in the National Hockey League with the Sabres, which however put it in their former farm team, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League. During the four years that he was active with the Sabres, he came to only 20 appearances in the NHL. After 1994/95, he received a new contract more at the end of the season, he first joined the Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League game for which he thus completed 52 games and it was able to score 74 times.
Other career positions in the next four years, were the Detroit Vipers and the Cincinnati Cyclones of the IHL before he moved to the 2000/01 season in the German Ice Hockey League to mosquitoes food. In his first season he was one of the ESC to the team internally best scorers, scoring 59 points in 54 games. After another season in Essen and at the Hannover Scorpions, he signed a contract in 2003 at the then second division Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg.
With Wolfsburg's Simon 2004 rose after a play-off final victory against the Landshut Cannibals in the DEL on. In the summer of 2008, Todd Simon finished his career after he had played in the season 2007 /08 for the HC Milano Vipers.