Torrey Mitchell
Torrey Mitchell ( born January 30, 1985 in Greenfield Park, Quebec ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who at the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League since March 2014 contract.
Career
Mitchell began his career in 2002 at the Hotchkiss School, one of the most prestigious high schools in the United States, where he played for two years before he went to the University of Vermont. There he studied for three years and ran it on for the University team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In three seasons from 2004 to 2007, the Canadian scored a total of 105 points in 115 games. In the season 2005/ 06, his best year of college, he was the third-best assist provider and eight best points scorer of Hockey East, a league of the NCAA. In addition, he was elected in his rookie year in 2004/05 to the All- Rookie Team of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. After graduating, he received a contract offer from the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League, who had selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the fourth round at 126th position.
The Sharks put Mitchell on the end of the 2006/07 season first in their farm team, the Worcester Sharks of the American Hockey League, a. He reached there in eleven games of the regular season and seven points in six playoff games of the team two. In autumn 2007, the striker took part in the training camp of the NHL teams and was the start of the 2007/08 season in the squad. There he established himself despite the fierce competition with consistently good performances. Especially on the defensive and in the lower numbers game continued Mitchell accents, so he put another defensive strikers like Patrick Rissmiller, Curtis Brown and Marcel Goc in the shade. The Defensivspeizalist finally completed all the games of the team, both in the regular season and in the playoffs, and came up with 23 points in 95 matches. His performances during the season earned him the team 's internal price of the best rookies. Stir in a negative way Mitchell made during the season, as he of the Minnesota Wild this so unhappy promoted in March 2008 of an accidental collision with opponent Kurtis Foster at high speed into the boards that Foster the femur broke. The NHL has therefore altered during the summer break the rules to such situations - physical contact in the area behind the goal with shots from distance with unauthorized touch Icing - to avoid in the future.
The following season started very badly for the striker as he at the start of training camp after a collision with opponent Brett Westgarth broke even in September the leg as he bounced on the goal posts. Only shortly before the Christmas holidays, he was able to train on the ice for the first time with the team again and mid-January 2009 was finally summoned to the Worcester Sharks in the AHL. There the Canadians should get some match practice before his return to the NHL squad. However, Mitchell again drew on his second deployment in Worcester to a leg injury, which in turn forced him to a three -month break. Only in the third game of the first playoff round against the Anaheim Ducks, he finally made his season debut for San Jose in the NHL. In the following summer, the Canadians remained loyal to the injury problems and he missed because of tendinitis in his knee the first one and a half months of the season 2009/10. In November, he was again sent in his career with the Worcester Sharks in the AHL to get some match practice.
On 1 July 2012, he signed as a free agent a three-year contract with the Minnesota Wild. On March 5, 2014 Torrey Mitchell was issued together with one second-round draft pick in 2014 and 2016, the Buffalo Sabres, in return, received the Wild Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick. <
Awards and achievements
- 2005 ECAC All- Rookie team
- 2008 PlayStation " Sharks Rookie of the Year " Award
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )