Brett Sterling

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Brett Sterling
Date of birth April 24, 1984
place of birth Los Angeles , California , USA
size 170 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Left wing
number # 12
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 5th round, 145th position
Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2000-2002 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2002-2006 Colorado College
2006-2010 Chicago Wolves
2010-2011 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2011–2012 Peoria Rivermen
Portland Pirates
2012-2013 Chicago Wolves
2013-2014 HV71 Jönköping
2014-2016 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2016-2018 Chicago Wolves

Brett Sterling (born April 24, 1984 in Los Angeles , California ) is a retired American ice hockey player . The winger played 30 games for the Atlanta Thrashers and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League , but spent most of his career in the American Hockey League . He also spent two years at EC Red Bull Salzburg and one year in Sweden.

Career

Sterling in the jersey of the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

During the 2003 NHL Entry Draft , Brett Sterling was selected in the fifth round as the 145th player by the Atlanta Thrashers . In the four years that he spent at Colorado College , he scored 108 goals in 150 games and had a total of 184 scorer points. In his first season in professional ice hockey, Sterling scored 97 points, including 55 goals, in 77 games for the Thrashers' farm team , the Chicago Wolves , in the American Hockey League . Eventually he won the Willie Marshall Award for the League's best scorer and the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award for Rookie of the Year . Because of these achievements, he was appointed to the AHL All-Rookie Team and the AHL First All-Star Team .

In the training camp for the NHL season 2007/08 Sterling managed to earn a place in the NHL roster of the Thrashers. On October 20, 2007, he scored his first goal in the National Hockey League . However, he could not fully prevail, so he spent most of the season with the Chicago Wolves in the AHL. Sterling also played for the Chicago Wolves in the following two seasons and was still one of the team's top scorers. In July 2010, he signed a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins , who sent him to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins' farm team after training camp .

On July 4, 2011 Sterling signed a two-way contract for one year with the St. Louis Blues and was subsequently mostly used with the Peoria Rivermen and at the end of the season with the Portland Pirates in the AHL. After the end of the season he received an AHL contract with the Chicago Wolves , before he moved to Europe for the first time in the summer of 2013 and was signed by HV71 Jönköping from the Svenska Hockeyligan .

Between June 2014 and the end of the 2015/16 season he was under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League and was Austrian champion in 2015 and 2016 . With 192 penalty minutes, he was the player with the most penalty minutes in the league in 2016.

For the 2016/17 season, Sterling returned to North America and once again joined the Chicago Wolves from the AHL. He was active there until the end of the 2017/18 season before declaring his career over in April 2018.

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 4th 30th 5 4th 9 32
Playoffs - - - - - -

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personal data
SURNAME Sterling, Brett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California