Chris Blight

Chris Blight
Date of birth	October 14, 1982
place of birth	Etobicoke , Ontario , Canada
size	184 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1999-2000	Cambridge Hawks
2000-2001	Guelph Dominators
2001-2005	Clarkson University
2005-2007	Toledo Storm
2007-2008	Reading Royals Manitoba Moose Albany River Rats
2008-2009	Rungsted IK
2009-2010	EV Ravensburg
2010-2011	Reading Royals Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2011–2012	Ritten sport
2012-2014	Cardiff Devils
2014	Sheffield Steelers
2014-2015	Dundee Stars

Chris Blight (born October 18, 1982 in Etobicoke , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian - British ice hockey player who spent the last few years of his career in the Elite Ice Hockey League .

Career

Chris Blight began his career as a hockey player with the Cambridge Hawks, for whom he played in a lower class Canadian junior league. After a year with the Guelph Dominators in the MWJHL, in which he was voted Rookie of the Year , he played from 2001 to 2005 for the team from Clarkson University in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . After two years with the Toledo Storm from the ECHL , during which he came to the Worcester Sharks for his first appearance in the American Hockey League , he moved in 2007 for a year to Toledo's league competitor, the Reading Royals . In this season he came in addition to his ECHL inserts to more than 30 AHL games, mainly for Manitoba Moose and the Albany River Rats . He then moved to Europe, where he first played for Rungsted IK from Denmark. After only six months he left the team from Nordsjælland in January 2009 and joined EV Ravensburg , where he was on the ice in the 2nd Bundesliga until 2010 . He then returned to North America for a year and played again for the Reading Royals in the ECHL and also for various AHL teams, including the Bridgeport Sound Tigers . After a year in Italy, which he spent at Ritten Sport , he moved to the British Elite Ice Hockey League in 2012 . After initially playing for the Cardiff Devils , he joined the Sheffield Steelers in February 2014 and won the Elite Ice Hockey League Playoff Championship with them that same year. He then moved to the Dundee Stars , which he also led onto the ice as captain and where he ended his career in 2015.

International

For Great Britain , Blight first took part in the 2015 World Cup in Division I.

Achievements and Awards

• 2001 Rookie of the Year of the MWJHL
• 2014 Elite Ice Hockey League Playoff Champion

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
AHL regular season	3	52	1	3	14th	25th
AHL playoffs	1	1	0	0	0	0
EIHL regular season	3	163	44	129	173	149
EIHL playoffs	2	8th	7th	11	18th	4th

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Chris Blight at hockeydb.com (English)
• Chris Blight at eliteprospects.com (English)