Craig Schira

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CanadaCanada  Craig Schira Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 21, 1988
place of birth Spiritwood , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 89 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2003-2007 Regina Pats
2007-2009 Vancouver Giants
2009–2012 Binghamton Senators
2012-2013 Frisk Asker
2013-2015 Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho
2015-2017 Luleå HF
since 2017 Rögle BK

Craig Schira (born April 21, 1988 in Spiritwood , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Rögle BK in the Svenska Hockeyligan since April 2017 .

Career

Schira was initially active from 2003 to 2007 for the Regina Pats from the Canadian top junior league Western Hockey League . In September 2007 the Regina Pats transferred him to the Vancouver Giants together with Mike Reich in exchange for Tim Kraus and Juraj Valach . With the Giants, Schira developed positively, especially on the offensive, and filled his role as a two-way defender. In his last WHL season, the 2008/09 season , he scored 16 goals and 43 assists in 71 regular season games . In the playoffs, the Canadian and the team lost to the eventual champions Kelowna Rockets in six games in the conference finals .

The undrafted actor signed a three-year entry contract with the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League in March 2009 . The following AHL season 2009/10 he made his debut for the AHL - farm team , the Binghamton Senators . In the 2010/11 season he won the Calder Cup with Binghamton . Until the end of the contract at the end of the 2011/12 season , the right-wing shooter was continuously active as a regular and was then hired by Frisk Asker from the Norwegian GET league in June 2012 . Between 2013 and 2015, Schira was on the ice for Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho in the Finnish Liiga , before moving to the Swedish club Luleå HF in the Svenska Hockeyligan in March 2015 .

International

For the Canada Western selection , Schira was on the ice at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2005 and won the gold medal with the team as the tournament winner. He also represented his home country a year later at the U18 Junior World Championship in 2006 , in which the Canadian selection missed a medal.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vancouver Giants make trade for defenceman, center. (No longer available online.) Canada.com, September 27, 2007, archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on October 15, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canada.com
personal data
SURNAME Shira, Craig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Spiritwood , Saskatchewan