Dan Spang
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Date of birth | August 16, 1983 |
place of birth | Winchester , Massachusetts , USA |
size | 183 cm |
Weight | 93 kg |
position | defender |
number | # 18 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2002 , 2nd round, 52nd position San Jose Sharks |
Career stations | |
2002-2006 | Boston University |
2006 | Cleveland Barons |
2007-2008 | Worcester Sharks |
2008-2009 | Quad City Flames |
2009 | Syracuse crunch |
2009-2010 | Nuremberg Ice Tigers |
2010–2012 | Texas Stars |
2012-2013 | Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho |
2013 | HV71 |
2013-2014 | SaiPa |
2014-2015 | Kärpät Oulu |
2015 | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod |
2015 | HC Kometa Brno |
2016 | Hamburg Freezers |
2016-2018 | Nottingham Panthers |
2018-2019 | Löwen Frankfurt |
Dan Spang (born August 16, 1983 in Winchester , Massachusetts ) is an Italian - American ice hockey player on the position of defender , who was last under contract with the Lions Frankfurt in the DEL2 .
Career
Spang played for the team at his school in Winchester during his high school years between 2000 and 2002. Due to a severe concussion in a car accident in October 2001, his appearances in his senior year were limited to only six games, in which he scored 17 points as a defender. Nevertheless, the San Jose Sharks selected the then 18-year-old in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft in the second round in 52nd place. First, however, Spang moved to college and played between 2002 and 2006 in the Hockey East of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for Boston University . There he increased his points yield in the four seasons from year to year and was signed by San Jose on April 4, 2006 after the end of the 2005/06 NCAA season.
The Sharks initially sent the American to the Cleveland Barons in the American Hockey League , where he played the last eight games of the season for the then farm team San Joses. After the Barons moved to Worcester in the summer of 2006, Spang ran for the Worcester Sharks from the 2006/07 season . A shoulder injury and another concussion, which meant that he had to end the season in March, were the reason that Spang could only play 48 games in his first full AHL season. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he returned to the squad of the Worcester Sharks and spent the entire season there. Since his contract expired at the end of the season, however, he moved as a free agent to the organization of the Calgary Flames , where he played for their farm team, the Quad City Flames , in the AHL. This transferred him in February 2009 from there to league rivals Syracuse Crunch , where Spang ended the season.
On July 21, 2009, the Nuremberg Ice Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League announced the commitment of the American, where he signed a contract abroad for the first time. He returned to North America a year later and was signed by the Texas Stars in October 2010 . In May 2011 he received a contract with the Elitserien- promoted Växjö Lakers Hockey , but was signed a month later by the Dallas Stars from the National Hockey League for the 2011/12 season by two-way contract.
In the 2012/13 season Spang played for Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho in the Finnish SM-liiga and the Swedish club HV71 in the Elitserien . The following year he spent at SaiPa before the summer of 2014 within the league to Karpat Oulu changed and with the team at the end of the 2014/15 season , the championship won. The season 2015/16 was marked for the Italian-Americans of many club Jump, he was from August 2015 initially for one month at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the Continental Hockey League contract before October to December for the HC Kometa Brno in Extraliga was on the ice. In January 2016, the defender was signed by the Hamburg Freezers from the German Ice Hockey League .
Between 2016 and 2018 Spang played for the Nottingham Panthers , with whom he won the IIHF Continental Cup in 2017 . In June 2018, Spang was signed by the Löwen Frankfurt from the DEL2 . After the 2018/19 season, his existing contract was terminated due to an injury.
Achievements and Awards
- 2006 Hockey East First All-Star Team
- 2006 NCAA East First All-American Team
- 2006 Hockey East Champion with Boston University
- 2015 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu
- 2017 IIHF Continental Cup win with the Nottingham Panthers
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2002-03 | Boston University | NCAA | 27 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003-04 | Boston University | NCAA | 38 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2004-05 | Boston University | NCAA | 41 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2005-06 | Boston University | NCAA | 40 | 9 | 22nd | 31 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Cleveland Barons | AHL | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2006-07 | Worcester Sharks | AHL | 48 | 4th | 21st | 25th | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2007-08 | Worcester Sharks | AHL | 77 | 8th | 23 | 31 | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008-09 | Quad City Flames | AHL | 30th | 1 | 7th | 8th | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Las Vegas Wranglers | ECHL | 17th | 2 | 10 | 12 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
Syracuse crunch | AHL | 24 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2009-10 | Nuremberg Ice Tigers | DEL | 48 | 4th | 10 | 14th | 45 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
2010-11 | Texas Stars | AHL | 77 | 10 | 27 | 37 | 32 | 6th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 2 | ||
NCAA overall | 146 | 20th | 50 | 70 | 62 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
ECHL total | 17th | 2 | 10 | 12 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
AHL total | 264 | 26th | 88 | 114 | 115 | 6th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 2 | ||||
DEL total | 48 | 4th | 10 | 14th | 45 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
( 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
- Dan Spang at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Växjö värvar AHL-back. eurosport.se, accessed November 4, 2013 (Swedish).
- ^ Bachman and Spang signed to one-year deals. Dallas Stars , accessed June 17, 2011 .
- ↑ Löwen Frankfurt sign American Dan Spang. In: wetterauer-zeitung.de. June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Spang, Dan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Winchester , Massachusetts, USA |