Glen Metropolitan

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Glen Metropolitan
Date of birth June 25, 1974
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 179 cm
Weight 90 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1992-1994 Richmond Hill Riot
1994-1995 Vernon Lakers
1995-1996 Nashville Knights
1996-1997 Rafales de Québec
Pensacola Ice Pilots
1997-1999 Grand Rapids Griffins
1999-2001 Washington Capitals
Portland Pirates
2001 Tampa Bay Lightning
2001-2003 Washington Capitals
Portland Pirates
2003-2005 Jokerit Helsinki
2005-2006 HC Lugano
2006-2007 Atlanta Thrashers
2007 St. Louis Blues
2007-2008 Boston Bruins
2008-2009 Philadelphia Flyers
2009-2010 Canadiens de Montréal
2010–2012 EV train
2012-2014 HC Lugano
2014 SC Bern
2014-2016 Adler Mannheim
2016-2017 HC Bolzano

Glen David Metropolit (born June 25, 1974 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 437 games for the Washington Capitals , Tampa Bay Lightning , Atlanta Thrashers , St. Louis Blues during his active career between 1994 and 2017 , Boston Bruins , Philadelphia Flyers and Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Metropolit, who also played in various European top leagues, became German champion with the Adler Mannheim in 2015 .

Career

Metropolit (white jersey) in a duel with Matt Carle of the San Jose Sharks

Metropolit began his professional career in North America , where he went through the lower class leagues and finally got to the Washington Capitals ( National Hockey League ) in the 1999/2000 season via the Portland Pirates ( American Hockey League ) . But he could not establish himself there permanently and commuted three consecutive seasons between the Pirates and the Capitals. He also completed two games for Tampa Bay Lightning .

In the run-up to the 2003/04 season , the Canadian decided to move to Europe and hired the Finnish first division club Jokerit , where he was able to establish himself as a strong attacker straight away. Metropolit became the sixth-best scorer in the league in the past season with 15 goals and 35 assists and scored a total of six goals in seven games in the quarter-finals of his team. In the following season the Canadian was able to confirm his achievements and became the team's internal top scorer with 16 goals and also convinced in the play-offs with 11 scorer points in 12 games, losing with Jokerit in the final of the Finnish championship against Oulun Kärpät . Due to his performance at Jokerit, the attacker became a crowd favorite, especially his skills as a playmaker were praised and the zone he favored outside the left face-off circle in the attack third was referred to by many experts and TV commentators as Metro's office based on Wayne Gretzky . Furthermore, Metropolit and Marko Jantunen were an integral part of the short-handed game at Jokerit, as a result of which both were responsible for a large number of short-handed goals .

Glen Metropolit in the jersey of Adler Mannheim, Francois Methot (in the foreground)

For the 2005/06 season Metropolit moved to Switzerland for HC Lugano in the National League A and won the championship with his new team. The right-shooter was the top scorer in the league in the main round with 23 goals in the past season. In the summer of 2006, the Canadian dissolved his contract with Lugano in order to play in the 2006/07 season with the Atlanta Thrashers in the NHL. Two days before the NHL transfer deadline, he was transferred to the St. Louis Blues in January 2007 in exchange for Keith Tkachuk . After his contract was not renewed after the season, Metropolit took part in a training camp of the Boston Bruins in the summer of 2007 , which then signed him in October. With the Bruins, the center acted primarily in undernumbered situations and within the third and fourth row, which, as so-called checking lines , play more defensively. With 33 scorer points from 81 games, Metropolit played his best-in-points NHL season in the 2007/08 season.

In July 2008, the Canadian signed a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers , but was handed in again shortly before the end of the trading deadline and from February 2009 on he played in the jersey of the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL. After Metropolit spent the entire 2009/10 season with the Canadiens , he moved back to Switzerland in the summer of 2010 and agreed on a two-year work contract with EV Zug . There the attacker was able to establish himself as one of the elementary offensive players and became the best scorer within the NLA once again with 15 hits and 38 assists. After another season in Zug, the Canadian was again on the ice at HC Lugano between 2012 and 2014 and also played three games for SC Bern at the end of the 2013/14 season . For the 2014/15 season , Metropolit moved to Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League , where he came up with jersey number 50. In the 2014/15 season he reached first place in the table after the regular season with the Eagles and won the German championship in the subsequent play-offs . He left Mannheim after the 2015/16 season.

On October 20, 2016, Metropolit was signed by the South Tyrolean club HC Bozen from the Austrian ice hockey league . At the beginning of February 2017, his contract in Bolzano was terminated for family reasons.

Roller hockey

Between 1996 and 1997 he played 34 games in Roller Hockey International (RHI), which has not existed since 1999. He completed 28 games for the Long Island Jawz , four games for the Anaheim Bullfrogs and two games for the New Jersey Rockin Rollers .

International

In 1998 he was with Team Canada inline hockey world champion at the IIHF World Championships in Anaheim, California. He also represented Canada at the 2006 Ice Hockey World Championship in Riga.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Vernon Lakers BCJHL 60 43 74 117 92 - - - - -
1995/96 Nashville Knights ECHL 58 30th 31 61 62 5 3 8th 11 2
1996/97 Pensacola Ice Pilots ECHL 54 35 47 82 45 12 9 16 25th 28
1996/97 Rafales de Quebec IHL 22nd 5 4th 9 14th 5 0 0 0 2
1997/98 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 79 20th 35 55 90 3 1 1 2 0
1998/99 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 77 28 53 81 92 - - - - -
1999/00 Washington Capitals NHL 30th 6th 13 19th 4th 2 0 0 0 2
1999/00 Portland Pirates AHL 48 18th 42 60 73 1 1 0 1 0
2000/01 Washington Capitals NHL 15th 1 5 6th 10 1 0 0 0 0
2000/01 Portland Pirates AHL 51 25th 42 67 59 - - - - -
2001/02 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2001/02 Portland Pirates AHL 32 17th 22nd 39 20th - - - - -
2001/02 Washington Capitals NHL 33 1 16 17th 6th - - - - -
2002/03 Washington Capitals NHL 23 2 3 5 6th - - - - -
2002/03 Portland Pirates AHL 33 7th 23 30th 23 3 1 1 2 0
2003/04 Jokerit Helsinki SM-liiga 55 15th 35 50 77 7th 6th 1 7th 33
2004/05 Jokerit Helsinki SM-liiga 51 16 31 47 42 12 5 6th 11 20th
2005/06 HC Lugano NLA 44 23 42 65 60 17th 9 17th 26th 8th
2006/07 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 57 12 16 28 20th - - - - -
2006/07 St. Louis Blues NHL 20th 2 3 5 14th - - - - -
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 82 11 22nd 33 36 7th 1 0 1 4th
2008/09 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 55 4th 10 14th 15th - - - - -
2008/09 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 21st 2 1 3 13 4th 0 2 2 2
2009/10 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 69 16 13 29 24 16 0 2 2 4th
2010/11 EV train NLA 47 15th 38 53 32 - - - - -
2011/12 EV train NLA 42 15th 21st 36 28 - - - - -
2012/13 HC Lugano NLA 50 20th 44 64 62 - - - - -
2013/14 HC Lugano NLA 40 6th 28 34 14th - - - - -
2013/14 SC Bern NLA 3 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2014/15 Adler Mannheim DEL 43 6th 35 41 26th 12 2 4th 6th 1
2015/16 Adler Mannheim DEL 49 10 17th 27 64 3 0 3 3 0
2016/17 HC Bolzano EBEL 34 4th 15th 19th 43 - - - - -
ECHL total 112 65 78 143 107 17th 12 24 36 30th
IHL total 178 53 92 145 196 8th 1 1 2 2
AHL total 164 67 129 196 175 4th 2 1 3 0
NHL overall 407 57 102 159 148 30th 1 4th 5 12
SM-liiga total 106 31 66 97 119 19th 11 7th 18th 53
NLA total 226 80 173 253 196 17th 9 17th 26th 8th
DEL total 92 16 52 68 90 15th 2 7th 9 16

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2006 Canada WM 4th Place 9 0 2 2 6th
Men overall 9 0 2 2 6th

( 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. ↑ sports.epsn.go Thrashers sign centers Rucchin, Metropolitan
  2. ↑ sports.espn.com Blues trade Tkachuk for Metropolit, draft picks
  3. ↑ nhl.com Boston Bruins sign free-agent center Glen Metropolit to contract
  4. ↑ flyers.nhl.com Flyers Sign Four Players
  5. ↑ sportsnet.ca Habs claim Metropolitan from Flyers
  6. ↑ sport.sf.tv, Zug is fishing for Metropolitan
  7. ↑ nzz.ch Lugano brings top strikers back
  8. ↑ blick.ch Metropolitan of Bern - Lehtonen of Lugano!
  9. ↑ focus.de DEL: Mannheim brings former NHL striker Metropolit
  10. ↑ HCB Press LT: Big player on the march for HCB Südtirol Alperia - Glen Metropolit, EX - NHL player - Hockey club Bolzano . ( online [accessed October 20, 2016]). Big player on the march for the HCB Südtirol Alperia - Glen Metropolit, EX - NHL player - Hockey club Bolzano ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.hcb.net
  11. ↑ HCB Press LT: Bozen and Glen Metropolit go their separate ways - Hockey club Bolzano . ( online [accessed February 5, 2017]). Bozen and Glen Metropolit go their separate ways - Hockey club Bolzano ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.hcb.net
personal data
SURNAME Metropolitan, Glen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metropolitan, Glen David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario