Chris Schmidt

Chris Schmidt
Date of birth	March 1, 1976
place of birth	Beaverlodge , Alberta , Canada
size	195 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	defender
number	# 26
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1994 , 5th round, 111th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
1992-1996	Seattle Thunderbirds
1996-1997	Phoenix Roadrunners
1997-1998	Fredericton Canadiens
1998-1999	Springfield Falcons
1999-2001	Lowell Lock Monsters
1999-2000	Team Canada
2001-2005	Manchester monarchs
2005-2006	DEG Metro Stars
2006-2007	ERC Ingolstadt
2007-2009	Iserlohn Roosters
2009-2010	Adler Mannheim
2010-2011	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2011-2013	Schwenninger Wild Wings

Christopher "Chris" Schmidt (born March 1, 1976 in Beaverlodge , Alberta ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with the Schwenninger Wild Wings from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga .

Career

Chris Schmidt began his career in 1992 in the Canadian Junior League WHL , where he spent four seasons with the Seattle Thunderbirds before signing his first professional contract in 1996 and 18 games in the East Coast Hockey League for the Mississippi Sea Wolves and 37 games in the IHL graduated for the Phoenix Roadrunners . The player , who was then still used as a center forward , spent the following years mostly in the American Hockey League , where he went on the ice for the Fredericton Canadiens , the Springfield Falcons , the Lowell Lock Monsters and the Manchester Monarchs . In the 1999/2000 season, Schmidt was also active for Team Canada . The NHL rights to him had already secured the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the fifth round in 111th position, so that he completed a total of ten missions in the National Hockey League in the 2002/03 season .

In 2005 , Schmidt moved from North America to Germany to the DEG Metro Stars from the German Ice Hockey League , but he left it the following year to join the league competitor ERC Ingolstadt . There the Canadian was mostly used as a defender and in the 2006/07 play-offs became the team's best-scoring player with one goal and five assists in six games. He then switched to the Iserlohn Roosters . Since the defender with German ancestors has had German citizenship since 2007, he was nominated for the first time for the German national team after good performance in the 2007/08 season , with which he took part in the 2008 Ice Hockey World Cup in Canada . After the 2008/09 season , Schmidt left the Roosters because he had signed a contract with Adler Mannheim .

For the 2010/11 season he signed a contract with the Kassel Huskies . After the team was denied the license for the DEL and the club was then dissolved, Schmidt left the Huskies and was subsequently unemployed. In November of the same year he received a contract until the end of the season with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . On May 31, 2011 he will move from the German runner-up in Wolfsburg to Schwenningen.

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 Kelly Cup win with the Mississippi Sea Wolves

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1992/93	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		61	6th	7th	13	17th		5	0	1	1	0
1993/94	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		68	7th	17th	24	26th		9	3	1	4th	2
1994/95	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		61	21st	11	32	31		3	0	0	0	0
1995/96	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		61	39	23	62	135		5	1	5	6th	9
1996/97	Mississippi Sea Wolves	ECHL		18th	7th	7th	14th	35		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Phoenix Roadrunners	IHL		37	3	6th	9	60		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Fredericton Canadiens	AHL		69	8th	5	13	67		4th	0	0	0	2
1998/99	Springfield Falcons	AHL		17th	3	2	5	19th		1	0	0	0	0
1998/99	Mississippi Sea Wolves	ECHL		6th	1	0	1	2		18th	5	8th	13	10
1999/00	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		38	8th	10	18th	38		7th	2	1	3	8th
2000/01	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		79	21st	32	53	84		4th	2	2	4th	2
2001/02	Manchester monarchs	AHL		62	9	12	21st	43		5	0	2	2	0
2002/03	Manchester monarchs	AHL		53	12	13	25th	58		2	0	1	1	4th
2002/03	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		10	0	2	2	5		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Manchester monarchs	AHL		54	6th	13	19th	39		6th	0	1	1	4th
2004/05	Manchester monarchs	AHL		80	5	14th	19th	107		6th	1	0	1	4th
2005/06	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		51	5	7th	12	73		14th	1	0	1	12
2006/07	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		52	5	13	18th	52		6th	1	5	6th	4th
2007/08	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		49	3	15th	18th	44		7th	1	0	1	12
2008/09	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		51	3	14th	17th	77		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Adler Mannheim	DEL		51	1	5	6th	82		2	0	0	0	0
WHL overall				251	73	58	131	209		22nd	4th	7th	11	11
AHL total				452	72	101	173	455		35	5	7th	12	24
DEL total				254	17th	54	71	328		29	3	5	8th	28
NHL overall				10	0	2	2	5		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Chris Schmidt at hockeydb.com (English)
• Chris Schmidt at eurohockey.com
• Chris Schmidt at legendsofhockey.net (English)