Craig Weller

Craig Weller
Date of birth	March 17, 1981
place of birth	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 12
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2000 , 5th lap, 167th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2000-2001	University of Minnesota Duluth
2001-2002	Kootenay Ice
2002-2007	Hartford Wolf Pack
2007-2008	Phoenix Coyotes
2008-2009	Minnesota Wild
2009-2010	Providence Bruins
2010-2011	Cardiff Devils
2011–2012	EC VSV
2012-2013	ERC Ingolstadt

Craig Weller (born March 17, 1981 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with ERC Ingolstadt in the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Craig Weller was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2000 in the fifth round as a total of 167th player by the St. Louis Blues , for which he however never played. First he began the 2000/01 season in the ice hockey team of the University of Minnesota Duluth , which he left after six games to sign a contract with the Kootenay Ice from the Western Hockey League on January 7, 2001 . With the Ice in 2002 he won both the President's Cup for WHL championship and the Memorial Cup for the championship winner of the Canadian Hockey League .

After this success, the New York Rangers signed the attacker, but for the following five years only for their farm teams , the Hartford Wolf Pack from the American Hockey League , and in the 2002/03 season additionally for the Charlotte Checkers from the East Coast Hockey League played. In the summer of 2007, the right-handed shooter signed a contract with the Phoenix Coyotes , for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League the following season . After only one year, however , he left the franchise again to play for their league rivals, the Minnesota Wild .

In the 2008/09 season he came to 36 appearances for the Minnesota Wild, scored one goal and collected three points. Weller played the entire 2009-10 season in the American Hockey League and began the season with the Houston Eros . On October 18, 2009 he was transferred to the Boston Bruins , where he subsequently held a regular position in the Providence Bruins farm team . Shortly before the trade deadline , he was transferred to the Florida Panthers on March 3, 2010 , where he again failed to make the jump to the NHL team. In November 2010 he signed a contract with the Cardiff Devils in the Elite Ice Hockey League . With these, the defender had an excellent playing time and scored 54 points in 45 encounters. In addition to being nominated for the League's First All-Star Team, Weller was named Defender of the Year and Player of the Year in the Elite Ice Hockey League. At the beginning of June 2011 he agreed on a one-year contract with the EC VSV from the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga . He was then signed by the ERC Ingolstadt DEL club .

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 WHL West Second All-Star Team
• 2002 President's Cup win with the Kootenay Ice
• 2002 Memorial Cup win with the Kootenay Ice
• 2011 EIHL First All-Star Team
• 2011 EIHL Defender of the Year
• 2011 EIHL Player of the Year

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	2	95	4th	10	14th	127
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

• Craig Weller at hockeydb.com (English)
• Craig Weller at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Craig Weller at eliteprospects.com (English)