Brendan Cook

Canada Brendan Cook


Date of birth	March 12, 1983
place of birth	Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
size	179 cm
Weight	84 kg

position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

1999-2001	Winkler Flyers
2001-2005	Bemidji State University
2005-2006	Pensacola Ice Pilots
2006-2007	Utah grizzlies
2007	Columbia Inferno
2007-2008	Austin Ice Bats
2008-2009	Nottingham Panthers
2009-2010	Rapid City Rush
2010-2011	Braehead clan
2011–2012	SønderjyskE
2012-2015	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven
2015-2016	Ritten sport
2016-2017	Dresden Ice Lions

Brendan Cook (born March 12, 1983 in Brandon , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played in the North American minor leagues and European leagues as the left winger in the course of his active career between 2001 and 2017 . Cook celebrated his greatest career success when he won the Italian championship title in 2016 when he was active for Ritten Sport .

Career

Cook started his career with the Winkler Flyers junior team in the province of Manitoba , where he played for two years and was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) in the 2000/01 season . Then he began studying at Bemidji State University and thus also for their university team, the Bemidji State Beavers , to play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). During his time at the university he was elected three times to the All-Academic Team and once each to the First All-Star, Second All-Star Team and All-Tournament Team of College Hockey America (CHA). He was also division champion with the Beavers in 2005.

Cook in the jersey of the Dresden Ice Lions

After completing his studies, the winger signed his first professional contract with the ECHL with the Pensacola Ice Pilots , for which he scored 42 points (20 goals, 22 assists) in 68 games in the first season . In the following season he not only played for the Ice Pilots, but also for the Utah Grizzlies and Columbia Inferno . Across clubs, he was able to score 32 points (16 goals, 16 assists) in 62 games during the season. Cook moved to the Austin Ice Bats , for which he completed 62 games in the 2007/08 season.

In the 2008/09 season Brendan Cook played for the first time in Europe with the Nottingham Panthers , with whom he reached the third main round of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL), but was eliminated in the playoff quarter-finals. After a very successful season in England , Cook moved back to the United States for the Rapid City Rush in the Central Hockey League (CHL). There he was active for a year and won the Ray Miron President's Cup with the team before moving back to the EIHL. In the 2010/11 season he was active with the Braehead Clan , where he recorded 81 scorer points as team captain (40 goals, 41 assists). After the season after the quarterfinals with the Braehead Clan was over, Cook moved to Denmark , where he played one season at SønderjyskE and was first in the main round. The team ended the championship round in third place.

The Fischtown Pinguins lured Brendan Cook to Bremerhaven in summer 2012 in the 2nd Bundesliga , where he scored the most goals (29) in the league in his first season. In the 2013/14 season , the Canadian was the first champion of the newly founded DEL2 with the Fischtown Pinguins. After the championship in the DEL2 he qualified with the Pinguins for the IIHF Continental Cup . There the team reached second place at the final tournament in the local ice arena in Bremerhaven and had to admit defeat to the Belarusian club HK Njoman Hrodna .

In the 2015/16 season , Cook played for Ritten Sport in the Italian Serie A and won the championship in the final against HC Pustertal . After only one season in Italy, Cook ended up again in the DEL2 to the Dresdner Eislöwen , where he scored 47 points (29 goals, 18 assists) in 52 games as assistant captain. In April 2017, Cook ended his active career.