Brett Festerling

Brett Festerling
Date of birth	March 3, 1986
place of birth	Quesnel , British Columbia , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
number	# 2
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2001-2005	Tri-City Americans
2005-2007	Vancouver Giants
2007-2008	Portland Pirates
2008-2010	Anaheim Ducks
2010-2011	Hamilton Bulldogs
2011	Chicago Wolves
2011–2012	St. John's IceCaps
2012-2014	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2014-2016	Hamburg Freezers
since 2016	Nuremberg Ice Tigers

Brett Festerling (born March 3, 1986 in Quesnel , British Columbia ) is a Canadian - German ice hockey player who is under contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Brett Festerling began his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League with the Tri-City Americans , for which he was active for a total of three years from 2002 to 2005. In the middle of the 2004/05 season Festerling was given up in a four-player transfer deal to the Vancouver Giants . With Vancouver, Festerling won the President's Cup in 2006 and the Memorial Cup in 2007 . Festerling, who was never drafted , was given the opportunity to attend their training camp by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the fall of 2005 and then signed a three-year contract.

In the summer of 2007 Festerling was finally added to the roster of the farm team of the now renamed Anaheim Ducks franchise . For the Portland Pirates from the American Hockey League , the Canadian played 74 games in his first professional season and scored 14 points, including three goals. During the 2008-09 season Festerling, who played for the then AHL farm team Anaheims, the Iowa Chops , was first appointed by the Ducks in their NHL squad and made his debut in National Hockey in a game against the Los Angeles Kings League . In the 2009/10 season he was mainly in Anaheim in action and completed a total of 42 NHL games for the Californians, in which he scored three points.

On September 30, 2010 he was put on the waiver list along with Danny Syvret . After not being selected by any NHL team, Festerling was sent to the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League on October 1 . Festerling completed a game in the AHL for the Syracuse Crunch and was recalled to Anaheim on October 9th, as defensive player Andy Sutton had previously sustained an injury.

At the end of December 2010, he was transferred to the Montréal Canadiens in exchange for Maxim Lapierre . About two months later, the Canadiens gave him to the Atlanta Thrashers in a barter for Drew MacIntyre . After the franchise was relocated to Winnipeg , Canada at the end of the season , the attacker's contract expired on July 1, 2011 and Festerling became a free agent . On July 18, 2011, he finally agreed on a new contract with the Winnipeg Jets . Festerling left Winnipeg after only five appearances in the jersey and was signed by the Nürnberg Ice Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League for the 2012/13 season . For the 2014/15 season , the defender signed a contract with league rivals Hamburg Freezers until 2018 , where he played in a team with twin brother Garrett. In May 2016, his guest appearance with the Freezers ended prematurely after the club did not apply for a license for the DEL season 2016/17 and all employees were dismissed.

On June 24, 2016, the Nürnberg Ice Tigers announced Festerling's return.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2015/16 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Tri-City Americans	WHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Quesnel Millionaires	BCHL		7th	0	0	0	0
2002/03	Tri-City Americans	WHL		55	3	8th	11	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Tri-City Americans	WHL		54	1	9	10	34		11	1	1	2	2
2004/05	Tri-City Americans	WHL		33	3	11	14th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Vancouver Giants	WHL		32	2	4th	6th	10		5	0	0	0	6th
2005/06	Vancouver Giants	WHL		67	1	6th	7th	35		18th	0	1	1	10
2006/07	Vancouver Giants	WHL		70	5	16	21st	80		22nd	1	6th	7th	24
2007/08	Portland Pirates	AHL		74	3	11	14th	64		15th	1	3	4th	6th
2008/09	Iowa chops	AHL		34	0	7th	7th	31		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		40	0	5	5	18th		1	0	0	0	0
2009/10	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		17th	0	1	1	19th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Toronto Marlies	AHL		11	0	4th	4th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		42	0	3	3	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Syracuse crunch	AHL		32	3	9	12	41		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		16	0	4th	4th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Chicago Wolves	AHL		5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		52	3	15th	18th	50		14th	0	2	2	10
2011/12	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		5	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	DEL		41	1	8th	9	50		3	0	0	0	10
2013/14	Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	DEL		31	2	9	11	83		6th	0	0	0	4th
2014/15	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		44	0	6th	6th	80		2	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		18th	0	1	1	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				314	15th	54	69	205		56	2	8th	10	42
AHL total				241	9	51	60	228		29	1	5	6th	16
NHL overall				88	0	8th	8th	35		1	0	0	0	0
DEL total				134	3	24	27	235		11	0	0	0	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 )

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 President's Cup win with the Vancouver Giants
• 2007 Memorial Cup win with the Vancouver Giants

Web links

• Brett Festerling at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Brett Festerling at hockeydb.com (English)
• Brett Festerling at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ seattlepi.nwsource.com, T-Birds vs. Americans
2. ↑ theglobeandmail.com, A Giant victory for Vancouver ( Memento from May 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ latimes.com, Brett Festerling, Bobby Ryan go to work for Ducks ( Memento from December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ tsn.ca, Ducks put defensemen Festerling and Syvret on Waivers
5. ↑ ducks.nhl.com, Festerling, Syvret Reassigned
6. ↑ ducks.nhl.com, Festerling Recalled from Syracuse
7. ↑ zeit.de Twins for the Freezers: Brett Festerling goes to Hamburg
8. ↑ All employees terminated | The Freezers-Aus came by email. In: BILD.de. Retrieved May 29, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Brett Festerling is coming back to Nuremberg! | Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers Nuremberg. (No longer available online.) In: www.icetigers.de. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; accessed on June 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.