Brian Fahey

United States Brian Fahey


Date of birth	March 2, 1981
place of birth	Glenview , Illinois , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	98 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2000 , 4th lap, 119th position Colorado Avalanche

Career stations

1997-1999	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
1999-2003	University of Wisconsin
2003-2005	Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies
2005-2006	Iowa stars
2006-2008	Chicago Wolves
2008-2009	Hartford Wolf Pack
2009-2010	Lake Erie Monsters
2010-2011	Hershey Bears
2011–2012	Rockford IceHogs
2012-2013	Vityaz Chekhov
2013-2016	EC Red Bull Salzburg

Brian Fahey (born March 2, 1981 in Glenview , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who was under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the highest Austrian ice hockey league between 2013 and 2016 .

Career

Brian Fahey began his career as a hockey player in the USA Hockey National Team Development Program , for which he was active from 1997 to 1999 in the junior league United States Hockey League and North American Hockey League . He then attended the University of Wisconsin for four years , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . In his first year of college he was awarded the election to the all-rookie team of the WCHA, whereupon the Colorado Avalanche in the NHL Entry Draft 2000 in the fourth round selected him as 119th player. Subsequently, the Avalanche did not take him under contract, which is why he ran up from 2003 to 2005 for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies in the ECHL . At the same time, the defender also came to some appearances in the American Hockey League for the Worcester IceCats and the Hershey Bears . In the 2003/04 season he was selected as a player for the Boardwalk Bullies in the ECHL All-Rookie Team .

In the 2005/06 season Fahey was the first time mostly in the American Hockey League for the Iowa Stars on the ice. At the same time, however, he completed another three games in the ECHL for the Idaho Steelheads . He spent the following two years with the AHL team Chicago Wolves , with whom he won the Calder Cup in the 2007/08 season . In the 2008/09 season he went to the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL. He had previously won the Victoria Cup in preparation for the season with their cooperation partner New York Rangers . It followed a year with the AHL team Lake Erie Monsters before the former junior international was signed by the Washington Capitals . For the Capitals he prepared a goal in the National Hockey League in seven games in the 2010/11 season . Most of the season, however, he spent again in the AHL, with Washington's farm team Hershey Bears and took part in the AHL All-Star Classic . In the 2011/12 season he ran in the AHL for the Rockford IceHogs .

Between 2013 and 2016 he was under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the highest Austrian ice hockey league and won the Austrian championship twice .

For the USA Fahey took part in the U18 Junior World Championship in 1999 . During the tournament he scored one goal in six games.

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	7th	0	1	1	2
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	9	521	56	133	189	582
AHL playoffs	5	57	6th	12	18th	62
ECHL regular season	3	104	22nd	43	65	100
ECHL playoffs	2	5	0	2	2	2

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)