Darcy Mitani

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Flag of Canada and Japan.svg  Darcy Mitani Ice hockey player
Date of birth 17th October 1973
place of birth Dryden , Ontario , Canada
size 182 cm
Weight 85 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1990-1992 Thunder Bay Flyers
1992-1996 AND Fighting Sioux
1996-1997 Charlotte Checkers
1997 Wheeling Nailers
1997-2010 Nippon Paper Cranes
2010–2012 High1

Darcy Mitani (born October 17, 1973 in Dryden , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player with Japanese citizenship who played most of his career for the Nippon Paper Cranes in the Japan Ice Hockey League and the Asia League Ice Hockey .

Career

Darcy Mitani, who began his career with Dryden MHA in his hometown, played from 1990 to 1992 with the Thunder Bay Flyers in the United States Hockey League , the most important junior league in the United States. While studying at the University of North Dakota , he played for the Fighting Sioux College Team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In 1996 he moved to the East Coast Hockey League with the Charlotte Checkers , but in the spring of 1997 he moved to the league rivals Wheeling Nailers , with whom he reached the playoffs, where, however, they lost 3 0: 3 in the first round against the Peoria Rivermen .

Then Mitani, who has Japanese ancestors, moved to the Nippon Paper Cranes in the Japan Ice Hockey League . He was the third best scorer in the league in 1999 and 2000. From 2004 he played with the Cranes in the Asia League ice hockey and was able to win it in 2004, 2007 and 2009. In 2005 he was the top scorer and best assist provider. In addition to the successes in the Asia League, Mitani won the All Japan Ice Hockey Championship with the team from Kushiro in 2006, 2007 and 2010 . In 2010 he moved to Korea for Asia League rivals High1 , where he won the Korea Domestic Championship , the South Korean ice hockey cup, in 2012. When he ended his career in 2012, he was the top scorer in the Asia League with 372 points in 274 games

International

Darcy Mitani, who is a Canadian-Japanese dual national, took part in the 2008 World Cup for Japan in Division I and was the best scorer of his team with six points (including four goals). He also represented the East Asians in the Olympic qualification for the Winter Games in Vancouver 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

Asia League statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 9 274 131 241 372 197
Playoffs 6th 58 22nd 39 61 36

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Darcy Mitani retires” on undhockey.areavoices.com, accessed on March 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mitani, Darcy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Japanese ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Dryden , Ontario , Canada