Evan McGrath

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Evan McGrath
Date of birth January 14, 1986
place of birth Oakville , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 93
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 4th round, 128th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2001-2002 Oakville Blades
2002-2006 Kitchener Rangers
2006-2010 Grand Rapids Griffins
2010-2011 VIK Västerås HK
2011-2013 IK Oskarshamn
2013-2014 Frölunda HC
2014 VIK Västerås HK
2014-2015 IK Oskarshamn
2015-2016 Hockey Thurgau
2016-2017 EC VSV
2017-2018 Kassel Huskies
since 2018 Sheffield Steelers

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Evan McGrath (born January 14, 1986 in Oakville , Ontario ) is a Canadian - Polish ice hockey player who has been  under contract with the Sheffield Steelers  in the Elite Ice Hockey League since 2018 .

Career

Juniors

Evan McGrath began his career in 2001 with his hometown club Oakville Blades in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League , before moving to the high-class Ontario Hockey League for the Kitchener Rangers in 2002 . McGrath had a good rookie season with 16 goals and 31 assists in 64 league games. In the playoffs , the Rangers made it to the final of the J. Ross Robertson Cup , where they were finally successful against the Ottawa 67’s . The big success followed shortly afterwards when they won the Canadian Junior Championship for the Memorial Cup . In the second season, McGrath's performances stagnated and he couldn't prove that he had moved on. By the middle of the season he was ranked 15th among the North American outfield players available for the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the NHL's talent scouts . However, he slipped further and further back in the rankings until the draft and was finally selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the fourth round at position 128.

In the 2004/05 season he was able to improve significantly and after 23 games he had already collected 40 points scorer. In the second half of the season, however, he was handicapped by an ankle injury and finally came to 87 points after 68 games, making him the top scorer of the Rangers. In the playoffs, the team moved to the final of the Western Conference and McGrath contributed seven goals and six assists in the 15 games, while he had to give up the role of top scorer due to his ankle injury to Mike Richards . McGrath had the most successful season among the juniors in 2005/06. With 37 goals and 77 assists, he led the Rangers and finished fifth in the league's scorer rating with 114 points. However, his performance in the playoffs declined and he only got four points in five games against the underdog Owen Sound Attack , who won the series.

American Hockey League

In the fall of 2006, McGrath moved to the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings from the American Hockey League . He had a difficult debut season as he could not transfer his scorer skills from his junior days to the senior game. At times he was sent to the Toledo Storm from the ECHL , where he showed very good performance, but he scored 59 AHL games only six goals in eight assists.

In the 2007/08 season , McGrath was not able to develop into a top performer at first, but was able to improve over the course of the season. Especially in the second half of the season he convinced with 22 points scorer in the last 30 league games, but the Griffins missed the playoffs quite clearly. For the new season he initially lost his regular place in the team, but was able to win it back through convincing performances and presented himself as one of the most constant offensive forces in the Griffins squad over the course of the season. In an attack formation with Francis Paré and Francis Lemieux , he denied his best professional season to date and developed into an important support within the team. In the 2009/10 season he was assistant captain of the Griffins, but remained well below its previous year's figures and was also used in 15 games for the Syracuse Crunch .

Europe

For the 2010/11 season he signed a contract with the Swedish second division club VIK Västerås HK , before he was on the ice between 2011 and 2013 for the league rivals IK Oskarshamn as assistant captain . In April 2013 McGrath was signed by Frölunda HC in the Svenska Hockeyligan , but switched again to VIK Västerås HK during the current season in February 2014. As of October 2015, the attacker played again for IK Oskarshamn before the season 2015/16 in the Swiss National League B to HC Thurgau went. During the season he also booked a playoff assignment for HC Davos in the NLA after he had been given a B license by the HCD.

In April 2016, the EC VSV signed McGraths from the Austrian Ice Hockey League for one year. After the end of the 2016/17 season, McGrath did not receive a new contract offer.

On July 18, 2017, Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League provided McGrath with a one-month trial contract, at the end of which, however, there was no firm commitment. A few days later he was signed by the cooperation partner Kassel Huskies .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001-02 Oakville Blades OPJHL 49 43 44 87 24
2002-03 Kitchener Rangers OHL 64 16 31 47 40 21st 6th 2 8th 6th
2003 Kitchener Rangers Memorial Cup 4th 2 2 4th 4th
2003-04 Kitchener Rangers OHL 68 15th 36 51 28 5 2 1 3 2
2004-05 Kitchener Rangers OHL 68 28 59 87 51 15th 7th 6th 13 6th
2005-06 Kitchener Rangers OHL 67 37 77 114 63 5 1 3 4th 4th
2006-07 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 59 6th 8th 14th 41 7th 0 0 0 0
Toledo Storm ECHL 9 6th 9 15th 12 - - - - -
2007-08 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 78 18th 17th 35 26th - - - - -
2008-09 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 68 17th 30th 47 24 - - - - -
2009-10 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 57 8th 11 19th 25th - - - - -
Syracuse crunch AHL 15th 4th 2 6th 2 - - - - -
2010-11 VIK Västerås HK HockeyAllsvenskan 49 15th 28 43 47 6th 0 0 0 2
2011-12 IK Oskarshamn HockeyAllsvenskan 51 15th 21st 35 32 6th 2 3 5 6th
OPJHL total 49 43 44 87 24
OHL total 267 96 203 299 182 46 16 12 28 18th
AHL total 277 53 68 121 118 7th 0 0 0 0
ECHL total 9 6th 9 15th 12 0 0 0 0 0
SWE-2 total 100 30th 49 79 79 12 2 3 5 8th

International

McGrath represented Canada on:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Canada U18 World Cup 7th 1 1 2 4th
Juniors overall 7th 1 1 2 4th

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hockey Thurgau: Hockey Thurgau signs Evan McGrath as the second foreigner. In: www.hockey-thurgau.ch. Retrieved April 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Paulsson suspended - Lindgren before extension? In: www.suedostschweiz.ch. Retrieved April 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ VSV brings Evan McGrath from Switzerland to the EBEL! (No longer available online.) In: ecvsv.at. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; Retrieved April 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecvsv.at
  4. ↑ https://www.mannheim24.de/sport/adler-mannheim/adler-mannheim-probespieler-evan-mcgrath-erhaelt-keinen-vertrag-8649824.html
  5. ↑ Michaela Streuff: New Center for the Kassel Huskies: McGrath becomes a sled dog. hna.de, September 5, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME McGrath, Evan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakville , Ontario