Cory Quirk

Cory Quirk
Date of birth	3rd July 1986
place of birth	Brockton , Massachusetts , USA
size	175 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	striker
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2005	Waterloo Black Hawks
2005-2009	University of Massachusetts Amherst
2009	Albany River Rats
2009-2011	Worcester Sharks
2011–2012	Starbulls Rosenheim
2012-2013	JYP Jyväskylä
2013-2016	SønderjyskE ishockey
since 2016	Fish town penguins

Cory Quirk (born July 3, 1986 in Brockton , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Fischtown Pinguins in the DEL since the 2016/17 season .

Career

Cory Quirk began his career as a hockey player with the Waterloo Black Hawks, for which he was active in the junior league United States Hockey League in the 2004/05 season . The attacker then played for the University of Massachusetts Amherst team for four years . During this period he was elected to the All-Academic Team of the University League Hockey East in 2006 and 2009 .

After he had made his professional ice hockey debut for the Albany River Rats in the American Hockey League towards the end of the 2008/09 season , the left-shooter signed for the 2009/10 season with their league rivals Worcester Sharks . In July 2011, the striker was signed by the German second division Starbulls Rosenheim . He scored 60 points scorer in 47 games in the regular season. In the 18 play-off games, the center forward could score another 24 points. This made Cory Quirk one of the best strikers in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2011/12 season and made a significant contribution to the success of the Starbulls this season. For the 2012/2013 season he moved to JYP Jyväskylä in the Finnish SM-liiga . Due to the NHL lockout , players from the National Hockey League were signed and therefore the left-shooter was partly used in the farm team JYP-Akatemia . In January 2013 he terminated his contract with Jyväskylä and returned to Germany. There he signed a contract with the Hannover Scorpions from the German Ice Hockey League until the end of the 2012/13 season . In his third game for Lower Saxony on January 27, 2013 against Adler Mannheim , the striker scored his first DEL goal.

For the 2013/14 season Quirk moved to the first Danish league for SønderjyskE Ishockey . With the club he became Danish champions in 2014 and 2015 and also played in the Champions Hockey League. In the Danish league he booked 163 appearances for SønderjyskE Ishockey and came up with 106 goals and 128 assists.

In April 2016, the Fischtown Pinguins Quirks announced.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Hockey East All-Academic Team
• 2009 Hockey East All-Academic Team
• 2014 Danish champion with SønderjyskE Ishockey
• 2014 All-Star Team of the Metal Ligaen
• 2015 Danish champion with SønderjyskE Ishockey

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		59	14th	26th	40	28		5	0	0	0	0
2005/06	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		36	8th	5	13	16
2006/07	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		39	13	18th	31	22nd
2007/08	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		36	11	18th	29	14th
2008/09	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		39	11	19th	30th	24
2008/09	Albany River Rats	AHL		11	5	2	7th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		59	8th	13	21st	14th		11	2	1	3	2
2010/11	Worcester Sharks	AHL		72	4th	7th	11	32		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Starbulls Rosenheim	2nd BL		47	18th	42	60	57		18th	10	14th	24	18th
2012/13	JYP Jyväskylä	SM-liiga		25th	1	6th	7th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	JYP Akatemia	Mestis		9	3	4th	7th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		14th	1	3	4th	37		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	SønderjyskE	Metal leagues		38	25th	31	56	68		16	10	8th	18th	10
2014/15	SønderjyskE	Metal leagues		36	27	31	58	39		16	10	8th	18th	10
2015/16	SønderjyskE	Metal leagues		45	25th	34	59	47		13	8th	8th	16	4th
2016/17	Fish town penguins	DEL		52	14th	22nd	36	8th		6th	1	1	2	2
2017/18	Fish town penguins	DEL		51	7th	14th	21st	10		7th	0	2	2	6th
2018/19	Fish town penguins	DEL		51	10	17th	27	24		3	0	0	0	0
NCAA overall				150	43	60	103	76
AHL total				142	17th	22nd	39	50		11	2	1	3	2
Metal leagues overall				119	77	96	173	154		45	28	24	52	24

( 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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ eishockeynews.de: Hanover goes even further: American Cory Quirk is coming! , Accessed February 1, 2013
2. ↑ haz.de: Scorpions bankruptcy in Mannheim , accessed on February 1, 2013
3. ↑ Statistics | Champions Hockey League. (No longer available online.) In: www.championshockeyleague.net. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Fischtown Pinguins: Quickly alive for the penguins - Cory Quirk. (No longer available online.) In: www.fischtown-pinguins.de. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Cory Quirk at hockeydb.com (English)
• Cory Quirk at eliteprospects.com (English)