Brandon Buck

Canada Brandon Buck


Date of birth	August 16, 1988
place of birth	London , Ontario , Canada
size	186 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	Left wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

2005-2006	Stratford Cullitons
2006-2009	Guelph Storm
2009-2010	Florida Everblades
2009-2011	Houston Eros
2011–2012	Sparta Warriors
2012-2013	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2013-2014	EHC Basel
2014-2017	ERC Ingolstadt
2017-2018	HC Davos
2018	Vienna Capitals
since 2018	Nuremberg Ice Tigers

Brandon Buck (born August 16, 1988 in London , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German ice hockey league since April 2018 .

Career

Brandon Buck began his ice hockey career in his native Ontario and played in the 2005/06 season in the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League for the Stratford Cullitons. With his team he reached the playoffs and was eliminated in the quarterfinals. 2006 Buck moved to the Ontario Hockey League to Guelph Storm . In the 2007/08 season he led his team as top scorer in the playoffs and reached the semi-finals. The next year Buck was able to increase his points yield again, but was eliminated again in the quarterfinals.

He then signed with the Norfolk Admirals in April 2009 and made his professional debut in the American Hockey League at the end of the 2008/09 season when he played six games. In September 2009 he was invited to the training camp of the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League . Due to an injury, Buck was unable to attend and also missed the Houston Eros farm team's preparation . He was then sent to the ECHL on the Florida Everblades . Buck was one of the strongest attacking players there and was nominated for the All-Star Game. During the season he also came to 21 missions for the Houston Eros in the AHL. After a successful participation in the training camp of the Minnesota Wild in September 2010, Buck was part of the Eros squad for the 2010/11 season . In June 2011 he decided to move to Europe and signed a contract with the Sparta Warriors from the Norwegian GET league . The next season he played for the Croatian club KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the Austrian ice hockey league . There he scored 58 points in 58 games and had the best plus / minus balance of all players in the league with +33 . In April 2013 Buck signed a two year contract with EHC Basel from the National League B . With his team he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the playoffs. Since the EHC Basel filed for bankruptcy in July 2014, Buck no longer had a contract. This was followed by the move to Germany in the DEL , where he preferred the ERC Ingolstadt to the Iserlohn Roosters due to a more lucrative offer . He surprised the league's experts there at the beginning of the season. Since he was able to maintain his performance at a consistently high level, the ERC Ingolstadt extended his contract until mid-2020. Brandon Buck is one of the best goal scorers and submitters in the history of the ERC Ingolstadt.

In December 2017 he left the ERC to accept an offer from the Swiss club HC Davos . Before he moved to the National League , he had scored 186 points (79 goals and 107 assists) in 183 appearances for Ingolstadt.

In February 2018, the Canadian left HC Davos and moved to the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian Erste Bank Ice Hockey League . With the Viennese he reached the semi-finals. In April 2018 he was signed by the Nürnberg Ice Tigers .

International

Brandon Buck took part in the Deutschland Cup 2016 and was invited to view them in preparation for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Achievements and Awards

2010 ECHL All-Star Game
2015 DEL playoff top scorer

Career statistics

			Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2005/06	Stratford Cullitons	MWJHL	48	22nd	34	56	47		6th	3	1	4th	0
2006/07	Guelph Storm	OHL	67	3	9	12	52	–7	3	0	0	0	2	0
2007/08	Guelph Storm	OHL	59	29	31	60	40	18th	10	5	3	8th	11	3
2008/09	Guelph Storm	OHL	66	24	40	64	30th	1	4th	3	2	5	0	1
2008/09	Norfolk Admirals	AHL	6th	1	1	2	4th	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Florida Everblades	ECHL	47	18th	21st	39	22nd	0	9	2	2	4th	4th	-2
2009/10	Houston Eros	AHL	21st	0	3	3	4th	-2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Houston Eros	AHL	56	3	13	16	8th	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Sparta Warriors	NOR	45	16	26th	42	26th	12	7th	3	3	6th	2	4th
2012/13	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	OIL	54	24	29	53	36	33	4th	1	4th	5	0	-2
2013/14	EHC Basel	NLB	38	15th	33	48	32		4th	4th	1	5	4th
2014/15	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL	51	28	30th	58	8th		18th	10	10	20th	8th
2015/16	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL	41	19th	29	48	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL	45	13	31	44	30th		2	1	1	2	24
2017/18	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL	26th	7th	6th	13	10		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	HC Davos	NLA	11	2	1	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Vienna Capitals	EBEL	6th	2	1	3	6th		11	2	4th	6th	14th
OHL total			192	56	80	136	122	12	17th	8th	5	13	13	4th
AHL total			83	4th	17th	21st	16	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
DEL total			163	68	96	164	72		20th	11	11	22nd	32
NLA total			11	2	1	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
EBEL total			60	26th	30th	56	42		15th	3	8th	11	14th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )