Alan Letang

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Alan Letang
Date of birth 4th September 1975
place of birth Renfrew , Ontario , Canada
size 187 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
number # 28
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 8th lap, 203rd position
Montréal Canadiens
Career stations
1991-1992 Cornwall Royals
1992-1994 Newmarket Royals
1994-1995 Sarnia Sting
1995-1997 Fredericton Canadiens
1997-1998 Kaufbeurer Adler
SC Langnau
Augsburger Panther
1998-2000 Michigan K-Wings
2000-2001 Utah grizzlies
2001-2002 Saint John Flames
2002-2004 Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2004-2007 Hamburg Freezers
2007-2008 Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2008-2009 HC Innsbruck
2009-2014 KHL Medveščak Zagreb

Alan Letang (born September 4, 1975 in Renfrew , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player with Croatian citizenship who was active for many years in various European and North American leagues and most recently played for the KHL Medveščak Zagreb . Since 2016 he has been an assistant trainer at Owen Sound Attack .

Career

Alan Letang began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 1991 to 1995 for the Cornwall Royals , Newmarket Royals and Sarnia Sting . During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1993 in the eighth round as a total of 203 players by the Montréal Canadiens , for which he never played. Instead, the defender ran from 1995 to 1997 for their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Fredericton Canadiens . Then he went to the first time Europe , where he in the 1997/98 season at the Kaufbeurer eagles and Augsburger Panther in the German Ice Hockey League said, and SC Langnau in the Swiss National League B was under contract.

In the summer of 1998 returned Letang to North America, where he the following two seasons at the Michigan K-Wings of the International Hockey League spent, where he the 1998-99 season when EV train in the Swiss National League A ended. In the following season, the left-shooter came to his debut in the National Hockey League for the Dallas Stars , who had signed him on March 22, 1999 as a free agent .

During the 2000/01 season, the Canadian played for the Utah Grizzlies in the IHL. After a year with the Calgary Flames in the NHL and their AHL farm team Saint John Flames , he was active for two playing years for the New York Islanders in the NHL, as well as their farm team from the AHL, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers . In the NHL, however, he could never prevail, so that he remained pointless in a total of 14 games.

On May 27, 2004, Letang, who was without a contract at the time, was signed by the Hamburg Freezers from the DEL, to which he returned after six years. He played a total of three years for the North Germans before spending the 2007/08 season at their league rivals Nuremberg Ice Tigers . For the 2008/09 season, the Canadian moved to HC Innsbruck in the Austrian ice hockey league . When he withdrew from the league at the end of the season for financial reasons, he joined the Croatian club KHL Medveščak Zagreb , which took the place of Innsbruck in the top division of Austria and whose team captain he immediately became. In his first year in Zagreb, he was elected to the league's all-star team as a right-back. Since 2013 he has played with the team from the Croatian capital in the Continental Hockey League . In addition, he also took part several times with the second team Medveščak the playoff games for the Croatian national championship and became 2013 and 2014 Croatian champion .

International

After Letang had already acted as General Manager for the Croatian selection at the 2013 World Cup in Division II , a year later - he had meanwhile been naturalized - he was on the ice for the Balkans in Division I. His experience and his ability to perform, he was named the best defender of the tournament, contributed to the fact that the Croatians not only kept their class, but also immediately finished second behind Poland as a climber .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Status: end of the 2013/14 season

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 14th 0 0 0 2
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
DEL main round 6th 182 9 43 52 100
DEL playoffs 5 24 0 5 5 14th
ÖEHL main round 5 238 26th 79 105 44
ÖEHL playoffs 4th 32 5 7th 12 14th
KHL regular season 1 18th 1 3 4th 6th
KHL playoffs 1 1 1 0 1 0

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personal data
SURNAME Letang, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Renfrew , Ontario , Canada