Eric Himelfarb

Canada Eric Himelfarb
Eric Himelfarb (2014)

Date of birth	January 1, 1983
place of birth	Thornhill , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	79 kg

position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 6th lap, 171st position Montréal Canadiens

Career stations

1999-2002	Sarnia Sting
2002-2003	Barrie Colts
2003-2004	Kingston Frontenacs
2004-2007	Grand Rapids Griffins
2007-2008	Lausanne HC
2008-2009	EHC Biel
2009-2010	HC Lausanne SC Langenthal
2010–2012	Rögle BK
2012-2014	Linköpings HC
2014-2015	Leksands IF
2015-2016	Malmo Redhawks
2016-2017	Hockey Thurgau
2017	SCL Tigers

Eric Himelfarb (born January 1, 1983 in Thornhill , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the SCL Tigers in the National League .

Career

Beginnings in the junior sector

Eric Himelfarb began his career in 1999 with the Sarnia Sting from the Canadian Junior League OHL with a good debut season when he got 47 scorer points in 62 games. 2000/01 he was able to improve and scored 31 goals in 49 league games and prepared another 44. Himelfarb was then selected by the Montréal Canadiens in the sixth round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft at position 171. In the following season he was able to build on the good performance, was team captain and third-best scorer of the Sting with 83 points. In the summer of 2002 he moved within the OHL to the Barrie Colts , where however his points yield stagnated. 2003/04 he played for the Kingston Frontenacs , where he completed his last OHL season. After the somewhat weaker season in Barrie, he was able to improve again, was fourth-best scorer and second-best preparer of the league.

NHL / AHL

After the Frontenacs were eliminated from the playoffs after the first round , the Detroit Red Wings took him under contract, as the Montréal Canadiens had lost the rights to Himelfarb. For the rest of the season he was with the Red Wings farm team , the Grand Rapids Griffins , in the AHL , where he made a good impression with two goals and three assists in the remaining seven games of the season. Since the NHL season 2004/05 was canceled because of the lockout , Himelfarb had no opportunity to come to use and continued to play with the Griffins in the AHL, where he confirmed his good performance with 43 points and was the team's third-best scorer. In the 2005/06 season, however, the values of Himelfarb went back and he could not recommend himself with only 28 points for the NHL squad of the Red Wings.

Change to Europe

After Himelfarb did not get beyond the farm team in the 2006/07 season, he decided to move to Europe in the second-rate National League B at Lausanne HC in the summer of 2007 . After a season in the NLB near Lausanne, the EHC Biel signed the Canadian from the first-class National League A for one season.

At the end of the 2008/09 season, Himelfarb left EHC Biel and temporarily moved back to Lausanne HC to replace the injured Alexandre Tremblay . After ten games in Lausanne, the attacker was signed by league rivals SC Langenthal , before joining the Swedish second division club Rögle BK after a short period of non-membership in December 2010 . After two seasons there, Himelfarb switched to the first-class Elitserien to Linköpings HC .

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, the right-handed shooter initially ran for Leksands IF and played for the Malmö Redhawks after his contract was terminated in January 2015 . With the Redhawks, he rose to the Svenska Hockeyligan in 2015 . In October 2016, Himelfarb moved to Hockey Thurgau in Switzerland . For the 2017/18 season, he signed a one-year contract including an option for another year of play with the SCL Tigers from the Swiss National League, but only made 13 appearances for the Emmental team and otherwise was with SC Langenthal and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds used.