Ed Courtenay

Ed Courtenay
Date of birth	2nd February 1968
place of birth	Verdun , Quebec , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1986-1987	Laval titanium
1987-1989	Granby bison
1989-1991	Kalamazoo Wings
1991-1993	San Jose Sharks
1993-1994	Kansas City Blades
1994-1995	Chicago Wolves Peoria Rivermen
1995-1996	San Francisco Spiders
1996-1997	South Carolina Stingrays
1997-2000	Sheffield Steelers
2000-2002	Ayr Scottish Eagles
2002-2003	Dragons de Verdun
2003-2005	South Carolina Stingrays
2005-2008	Belfast Giants
2008-2009	Newcastle Vipers
2009-2010	Manchester Phoenix

Edward Emmett Courtenay (born February 2, 1968 in Verdun , Québec ) is a retired Canadian - British ice hockey player and coach . Most recently he played with the Manchester Phoenix in the British English Premier Ice Hockey League . In the National Hockey League he was active for the San Jose Sharks .

Career

Courtenay first played four years in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Laval Titan and Granby Bisons . In his last season, his 114 points in 68 games were decisive for the Walh in the Second All-Star team of the league. Despite his good performances, the right winger remained undrafted .

For the season 1988/89 Courtenay switched to the professional camp and played the following three years with the Kalamazoo Wings in the International Hockey League , the farm team of the Minnesota North Stars from the NHL . The leap to a NHL roster of Canadians managed only to 1991/92 as him, the newly established San Jose Sharks in NHL Dispersal Draft in 1991 , which divided the players between the North Stars and the Sharks, selected. In the seasons 1991/92 and 1992/93 he played 44 NHL games and scored 20 points. He also won in the 1991/92 season with the Kansas City Blades , the Sharks farm team, the Turner Cup , the championship of the IHL.

After Courtenay was used exclusively in the IHL in the 1993/94 season, he subsequently only played in the North American minor leagues before moving to Europe in the British Ice Hockey Superleague in the summer of 1997 , where he worked up made a name for the end of the 2001/02 season with the Sheffield Steelers and Ayr Scottish Eagles and was one of the best players on the island. From 2002 to 2005 Courtenay returned to North America and was there in the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League and ECHL on the ice. From the 2005/06 season to the end of the 2007/08 season he was player-coach of the Belfast Giants , which belong to the British Elite Ice Hockey League . This was followed by one-year engagements with the Newcastle Vipers and Manchester Phoenix , with Courtenay also serving as an assistant coach in Manchester in the 2009/10 season. He then ended his active career.

Achievements and Awards

• 1989 QMJHL Second All-Star Team
• 1992 Turner Cup win with the Kansas City Blades
• 1997 ECHL Leading Scorer
• 1997 ECHL First All-Star Team
• 2000 British Ice Hockey Writers' Association Player of the Year Trophy
• 2006 EIHL All-Star First Team
• 2006 EIHL Champion with the Belfast Giants
• 2008 EIHL All-Star Second Team
• 2010 EPIHL Second All-Star Team

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	2	44	7th	13	20th	10
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Ed Courtenay at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ed Courtenay at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Ed Courtenay at eliteprospects.com (English)