Dan DaSilva

Dan DaSilva
Date of birth	April 30, 1985
place of birth	Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 88
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2002-2005	Portland Winter Hawks
2005-2006	Lowell Lock Monsters
2006-2007	Albany River Rats
2007-2008	Lake Erie Monsters
2008-2011	Worcester Sharks
2011	HC Lev Poprad
2011–2012	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
2012	EHC Olten
2012-2013	Ontario Reign
2013	Houston Eros
2013-2014	Worcester Sharks
2014-2015	Augsburg panther
since 2015	EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz

Daniel "Dan" DaSilva (born April 30, 1985 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been playing for EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League since 2015 .

Career

DaSilva played three seasons with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Hockey League during his junior years between 2002 and 2005 . In each of the three years, the striker was able to increase his points. After he had scored 22 points scorer in his rookie year , he increased to 56 points in his second year and finished the third and final season in the junior league with 73 points. Although DaSilva reached the playoffs with the team in each of the three years, the team was always eliminated in the first round.

In the summer of 2005, the Canadian moved undrafted to the professional camp when he signed a contract with the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League , who at the time were the farm team of the Carolina Hurricanes and Colorado Avalanche from the National Hockey League . DaSilva came at the beginning of the 2005/06 season to a total of 25 missions with the Lock Monsters, in which he scored five points. Furthermore, at the end of November he played four games for the San Diego Gulls from the ECHL , which were also in cooperation with the Colorado Avalanche. After an injury at the end of 2005, the right winger was out until the end of the season and was not used in either the AHL or the ECHL. In the following season DaSilva ran for the Albany River Rats from the American Hockey League after both Carolina and Colorado had ended their cooperation with the Lock Monsters and found a new cooperation partner in the River Rats. Compared to the previous year, the Canadian was able to significantly increase his yield with 19 points from 43 matches, but at the end of the 2006 calendar year he was repeatedly used at Arizona Sundogs from the Central Hockey League . Only towards the end of the 2006/07 game year did the winger gain a regular place in the AHL roster of the Albany franchise . Since Colorado found a new AHL farm team again in the Lake Erie Monsters for the 2007/08 season , DaSilva played there the entire season and fulfilled the last year of his contract. Again he was able to increase his offensive yield and was not transferred to the ECHL or CHL for the first time.

Despite DaSilva's steady growth over the past three seasons, he did not find a new team before the 2008/09 season . It was only in mid-October 2008 that the Worcester Sharks from the AHL showed interest and offered him a contract. After a few AHL appearances at the beginning of the season, the striker found himself with the Phoenix RoadRunners from ECHL, a cooperation partner of the Sharks. DaSilva stayed there until mid-February 2009 and was able to score 21 points in 36 matches. Due to many secondings to the San Jose Sharks from the NHL, the Worcester Sharks were forced to order the striker in the AHL squad. He was able to contribute twelve points to the successful qualification for the playoffs in the remaining 21 games of the regular season, with 13 points from 26 games at the end of the season. His achievements finally brought him a regular place in the squad for the playoffs, although various regulars had returned from San Jose in the meantime.

For the 2011/12 season, the Canadian moved to HC Lev Poprad in the Continental Hockey League . After 15 games in the KHL, he dissolved his contract with the Slovaks in November 2011 due to outstanding salary payments. He subsequently received a four-day trial contract with EHC Biel in the Swiss National League A . Biel took the option of tying him for a longer period of time, but did not take up. Then the HC La Chaux-de-Fonds secured the services of the Canadian from the second-rate Swiss National League B. In January 2012 he was signed by league competitor EHC Olten , with whom the Canadian signed a working paper until the end of the 2011/12 season. For the 2012/13 season he was obliged by the Ontario Reign from the ECHL.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 WHL West Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		64	9	13	22nd	81		7th	0	4th	4th	16
2003/04	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		65	36	20th	56	120		5	0	1	1	6th
2004/05	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		71	31	42	73	127		5	1	1	2	6th
2005/06	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		25th	3	2	5	27		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	San Diego Gulls	ECHL		4th	5	3	8th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Albany River Rats	AHL		43	11	8th	19th	33		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Arizona Sundogs	CHL		14th	9	13	22nd	10		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		54	9	14th	23	50		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Phoenix RoadRunners	ECHL		36	9	12	21st	40		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Worcester Sharks	AHL		26th	6th	7th	13	27		12	3	7th	10	6th
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		72	21st	32	53	65		11	2	6th	8th	8th
2010/11	Worcester Sharks	AHL		80	16	25th	41	68		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	HC Lev Poprad	KHL		15th	0	1	1	10		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	NLB		8th	6th	4th	10	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	EHC Olten	NLB		9	5	5	10	20th		4th	2	2	4th	8th
2012/13	Ontario Reign	ECHL		34	15th	27	42	53		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Houston Eros	AHL		22nd	8th	6th	14th	18th		5	0	0	0	2
2013/14	Ontario Reign	ECHL		14th	7th	19th	26th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Worcester Sharks	AHL		61	17th	20th	37	67		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Augsburg panther	DEL		51	17th	19th	36	94		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	EHC Linz	EBEL		39	18th	28	46	61		12	5	4th	9	14th
2016/17	EHC Linz	EBEL		53	31	39	70	16		5	1	1	2	4th
2017/18	EHC Linz	EBEL		50	22nd	33	55	56		12	8th	8th	16	6th
2018/19	EHC Linz	EBEL
WHL overall				200	76	75	151	328		17th	1	6th	7th	28
CHL total				14th	9	13	22nd	10		-	-	-	-	-
ECHL total				88	36	61	97	115		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				383	91	114	205	355		28	5	13	18th	16
KHL total				15th	0	1	1	10		-	-	-	-	-
NLB total				17th	11	9	20th	26th		4th	2	2	4th	8th
EBEL total				142	71	100	171	133		29	14th	13	27	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 )

Web links

Commons : Dan DaSilva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dan DaSilva at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Dan DaSilva at hockeydb.com (English)