Dan Spang

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Dan Spang
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

Career statistics

Spang in the jersey of Kärpät Oulu
Regular season Play-offs
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

Commons : Dan Spang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Växjö värvar AHL-back. eurosport.se, accessed November 4, 2013 (Swedish).
  2. ^ Bachman and Spang signed to one-year deals. Dallas Stars , accessed June 17, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Löwen Frankfurt sign American Dan Spang. In: wetterauer-zeitung.de. June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Spang, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Winchester , Massachusetts, USA