Graham Mink

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Graham Mink
Date of birth May 21, 1979
place of birth Stowe , Vermont , USA
size 190 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Right wing
number # 21
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1998-2001 University of Vermont
2001-2005 Portland Pirates
2005-2006 Hershey Bears
2006-2008 Worcester Sharks
2008-2009 Hershey Bears
2009-2010 Rochester Americans
2010-2011 Peoria Rivermen
2011–2012 Hershey Bears
2012-2013 Providence Bruins
since 2013 Dornbirn EC

Graham Mink (born May 21, 1979 in Stowe , Vermont ) is an American ice hockey player . Since the 2013/14 season he has played for the Dornbirner EC in the Austrian Erste Bank Ice Hockey League in the position of right winger .

Career

After Mink had finished his final year at Northfield Mount Hermon School in the 1997/98 season , he moved to the University of Vermont in the summer of 1998 . There he ran between 1998 and 2001 in three seasons for the university team in the ECAC Hockey of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . He was only able to impress in his last season there, in which he scored 29 points in 32 games.

Since he had not noticed any franchise of the National Hockey League up to this point , he switched to the professional camp undrafted for the 2000/01 season when the Portland Pirates from the American Hockey League signed him. Although he was used in 56 AHL games, but also had to play in the East Coast Hockey League for the Richmond Renegades , who cooperated with the Pirates team. Nevertheless, he impressed the scouts of the Washington Capitals , who also worked with Portland, so that they equipped him with an NHL contract at the end of the season. However, it was not until the end of the 2003/04 season before Mink came to his first two NHL appearances. Previously, he had only played in the AHL for Portland. Due to the lockout in the NHL in the 2004/05 season , the winger also spent the entire 2004/05 season in the American Hockey League.

For the 2005/06 season , the Washington Capitals changed the location of their farm team and henceforth worked with the Hershey Bears . Mink came back to three NHL missions that year, but was also out for a long time due to a groin injury that forced him to have an operation. Through the operation, he came to only 43 AHL appearances in the regular season, but this did not prevent him from leading the Bears in the playoffs with 21 points in as many games to win the Calder Cup after his return . Despite the success, Mink's contract was not renewed after the season and so took him in July 2006, the San Jose Sharks under contract. There he did not make the jump to the NHL squad, which he was sent to the Worcester Sharks in the AHL. As a leading player, he built on his performance in the previous playoffs and set personal bests in the categories of goals, assists and points. In the following season 2007/08 he was team captain of the Worcester Sharks, before he moved back to Washington after his contract expired in the summer of 2008.

In July 2011, he signed a one-year AHL contract with the Hershey Bears. After the contract expired, he moved to the Providence Bruins , where he was also on the ice for a year. Since the 2013/14 season, Mink has been storming for the Dornbirn EC in the Austrian Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998-99 University of Vermont NCAA 27 4th 2 6th 34
1999-00 University of Vermont NCAA 17th 7th 4th 11 18th
2000-01 University of Vermont NCAA 32 17th 12 29 52
2001-02 Richmond Renegades ECHL 29 8th 9 17th 78 - - - - -
Portland Pirates AHL 56 17th 17th 34 50 - - - - -
2002-03 Portland Pirates AHL 71 22nd 15th 37 115 - - - - -
2003-04 Portland Pirates AHL 68 18th 19th 37 74 3 0 1 1 4th
Washington Capitals NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2004-05 Portland Pirates AHL 63 18th 21st 39 86 - - - - -
2005-06 Hershey Bears AHL 43 21st 19th 40 50 21st 8th 13 21st 29
Washington Capitals NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2006-07 Worcester Sharks AHL 61 31 32 63 52 6th 1 5 6th 8th
2007-08 Worcester Sharks AHL 71 24 31 55 67 - - - - -
2008-09 Hershey Bears AHL 68 32 27 59 101 22nd 7th 8th 15th 16
Washington Capitals NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2009-10 Rochester Americans AHL 67 20th 17th 37 86 6th 3 2 5 23
2010-11 Peoria Rivermen AHL 70 24 26th 50 122 4th 0 0 0 10
NCAA overall 76 28 18th 46 104
ECHL total 29 8th 9 17th 78 - - - - -
AHL total 638 227 224 451 803 62 19th 29 48 90
NHL overall 7th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Mink, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Stowe , Vermont