Chris Lee (ice hockey player)

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Chris Lee (ice hockey player)
Date of birth 3rd October 1980
place of birth MacTier , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 84 kg
position defender
number # 42
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1996-1997 Orillia Terriers
1998-1999 Couchiching Terriers
1999-2000 Parry Sound Shamrocks
2000-2004 SUNY Potsdam
2004-2007 Florida Everblades
2007 Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights
2007-2008 Iowa stars
2008-2009 Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2009-2010 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2010-2011 Cologne Sharks
2011–2012 Adler Mannheim
2012-2013 Färjestad BK
2013-2018 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Chris Lee (born October 3, 1980 in MacTier , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk and played for them on the position of defender .

Career

Lee in the jersey of the Adler Mannheim

Chris Lee began his career as a hockey player in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League , where he was active between 1996 and 2000 for the Orillia Terriers, Couchiching Terriers and Parry Sound Shamrocks. He then attended the State University of New York at Potsdam for four years , for whose ice hockey team he played in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

After he was not included in the NHL Entry Draft , the defender moved to the professional field after completing his studies. Lee joined the Florida Everblades from the ECHL for three seasons . In the 2006/07 season he also gained his first experience in the higher-class American Hockey League , in which he was on the ice for the Albany River Rats , Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights . For the 2007/08 season , the Canadian finally received his first full AHL contract and played for the Iowa Stars for a year . In the following two seasons he was also limited to one year for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL.

In the summer of 2010 - without the chance of being involved with a team from the National Hockey League - the defender moved to Europe and was signed by the Kölner Haien from the German Ice Hockey League for the 2010/11 season . In the 2011/12 season he played for league competitor Adler Mannheim , with whom he became German runner-up. In addition, he was named the best defender of the DEL after he had collected the most scorer points during the season in his position with 45 . Nevertheless, Lee left the Adler and moved to Sweden to Färjestad BK in the Elitserien in summer 2012 . There he scored 53 points scorer in 64 games of the season in the following season, which made him the highest point defender of the Elitserien.

He then moved to another club in the summer of 2013. It drew the defender to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Continental Hockey League . With Metallurg Lee won the KHL championship trophy , the Gagarin Cup, at the end of the 2013/14 season . The Canadian repeated this success with the team two years later, in which he played a decisive role as the defender with the highest points in the playoffs and the scorer of the decisive goal in the final series. With well over 100 points scorer in his first three KHL seasons, Lee increased his yield to 65 points in the 2016/17 game year . In addition, there were another 21 points in the playoffs.

After his contract expired in the summer of 2017, Lee's performance in the KHL over the previous years finally drew the attention of the NHL franchises to his attention. He initially did not sign a new contract in Magnitogorsk, which meant that he missed the start of the 2017/18 KHL season and a little later received a trial contract from the Los Angeles Kings . With the Kings, however, he did not get a permanent engagement, so he returned to Metallurg.

International

Chris Lee in the national jersey (2017)

After Lee had already participated in the Germany Cup with Team Canada in 2012 and 2016 , he was appointed to the squad of the Canadian national team for the first time for the 2017 World Cup in Germany and France . There he won the silver medal with the team after a final defeat against Sweden , for which he contributed two assists in seven tournament appearances.

The following year he also represented his home country at the 2018 Winter Olympics , where he won the bronze medal with the team that competed without NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2015 KHL All-Star Game
  • 2016 Gagarin Cup and Russian Champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  • 2016 KHL First All-Star Team
  • 2016 KHL Defender of the Month for October
  • 2017 KHL All-Star Game

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2016/17 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Orillia Terriers OPJHL 50 2 11 13 64 - - - - -
1998/99 Couchiching Terriers OPJHL 51 1 15th 16 143 - - - - -
1999/00 Couchiching Terriers OPJHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1999/00 Parry Sound Shamrocks OPJHL 48 27 28 55 46 - - - - -
2000/01 SUNY Potsdam NCAA Div. III 28 2 6th 8th 26th
2001/02 SUNY Potsdam NCAA Div. III 27 8th 14th 22nd 42
2002/03 SUNY Potsdam NCAA Div. III 28 14th 22nd 36 37
2003/04 SUNY Potsdam NCAA Div. III 27 17th 32 49 30th
2004/05 Florida Everblades ECHL 68 5 22nd 27 16 15th 2 9 11 6th
2005/06 Florida Everblades ECHL 52 10 27 37 56 8th 2 1 3 4th
2006/07 Florida Everblades ECHL 37 6th 19th 25th 22nd 9 3 1 4th 0
2006/07 Albany River Rats AHL 3 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
2006/07 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2006/07 Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights AHL 32 4th 13 17th 16 6th 3 0 3 6th
2007/08 Iowa stars AHL 68 7th 21st 28 42 - - - - -
2008/09 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 66 6th 24 30th 36 5 0 3 3 2
2009/10 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 79 9 30th 39 30th 4th 0 1 1 0
2010/11 Cologne Sharks DEL 43 6th 15th 21st 34 5 2 0 2 16
2011/12 Adler Mannheim DEL 52 13 32 45 18th 10 1 3 4th 4th
2012/13 Färjestad BK Elitserien 54 12 29 41 30th 10 7th 5 12 6th
2013/14 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 47 12 19th 31 48 21st 3 6th 9 10
2014/15 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 60 9 37 46 55 10 0 4th 4th 8th
2015/16 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 60 9 28 37 38 22nd 3 10 13 8th
2016/17 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 60 14th 51 65 46 18th 1 20th 21st 22nd
OPJHL total 150 30th 54 84 253 - - - - -
NCAA Division III overall 110 41 74 115 135
ECHL total 157 21st 68 89 94 32 7th 11 18th 10
AHL total 249 26th 89 115 128 15th 3 4th 7th 8th
DEL total 95 19th 47 66 52 15th 3 3 6th 20th
Elitserien total 54 12 29 41 30th 10 7th 5 12 6th
KHL total 227 44 135 179 187 71 7th 40 47 48

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 7th 0 2 2 4th
2018 Canada Olympia Bronze medal 6th 0 5 5 0
Men overall 13 0 7th 7th 4th

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Chris Lee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Canada defenseman Lee to get tryout with Kings. In: nhl.com. Retrieved October 27, 2017 (en_US).
  2. ^ Lee released from PTO; lineups? In: lakingsinsider.com. September 30, 2017, accessed October 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH MacTier , Ontario , Canada